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[kv]

Being an editor is a thankless job. (and in my case, also payless. But let's not talk about that at all.)

Let's say you edit a 100 page manuscript. If you catch 99.9% of the errors, someone is going to pick apart the fifteen you missed, and write you a letter about it. (For an example of such a letter, see Pimpboy's acerbic post at the beginning of this thread)

The larger the book, it becomes exponentially harder to edit. A four-page newspaper is going to have errors, and take about six hours to edit. An eight page newspaper... somwhere around four times as hard to edit. I just finished a 16-page paper, and it took me the better part of two weeks. And I'm really good at my job.

I can't even imagine what it would take to put together a multi-media (graphics, pictures, rules format, indexes, and stories, in both standardized and non-linear formats) book like SR4. It runs, what... 350 pages?

Yeah, if someone offered me that job, I would punch them somewhere it would hurt and they would remember it.

  -kv

[Ruski]

No, you need to take the MONEY and THEN punch them.

-RuskiFace the Bully.

[kv]

Not in that case; taking the money means you agree to do it.

Punching them just lets them know they made a stupid mistake.

  -kv

[Ruski]

Well, there's always the low road.

I.E. take the money for a job you don't want. then do a crappy job of it.

like; say you are an editor. as you edit people's stuff: add mistakes to it.

*shrug*

-Ruski

[kv]

hahahah... most people don't need that help.

Even professional writers and english majors make mistakes.

  -kv

[Ruski]

I know, but to edit it to make it WORSE!

now, that's tallent!

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[Retread]

Some of those errors are HORRIBLE. If I were that editor, I KNOW I'd get fired...

[Ruski]

Perhaps he was trying to get fired?

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[Retread]

Maybe they outsourced the job to India?

[Ingo Monk]

Actually Indians generally have very good grammar, they're required to study it in school from an early age.  They used to be a British colony too

[Retread]

You've mean you've never gotten a "call" before?

[Ingo Monk]

Not a 'call' per say, but I've had to call many tech support lines.  Mind you I'm not talking about the accent, but the grammar

[Retread]

Right, but you'd think they'd learn how to pronounce some of our names right

I mean, my name is not "Hendershow" it's HendershoT

[Ruski]

Bah, if someone is 'trying' to pronounce my name, I'm happy. at least they took the effort to listen once, and then repeat it. any way you look at it; i've been called worse. (expecially when I'm driving)

and an attempted name botch is more personal than a whole slew of generic pro-nouns.

Yes, Sir and/or Madem; This is our, the company's, policy.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[kv]

I  can usually tell if it's someone trying to pronounce my name for the first time, or if it's someone who''s never met me before, making a sales call:

Sometimes my name is too long for databases- so they call me Mr. Hendrickso. That one isn't as much of a problem now, but it was funny the few times it happened.

They try to pronounce it a few times, and then settle on the wrong one:
"Mr. Hendri... Hendrix... Hender... Henderson. How are you today?"

  -kv