If it was that bad, can't you just fire me instead?

[styroboots]

One of BSC's* products that I am responsible for translating is software for employee performance reviews. Sometimes, although there is a full-time, paid translator on duty, the developers think that they should skip the middle man and write the English texts themselves. Thus we came a hair's breadth away from calling the date on which an employee'

Comments

Execution

[fdmts]

I get a little creeped out when airline pilots talk about being on the "final approach."

Really? Final? Can we talk about this?

Re: Execution

[technolope]

It's never final. They're going to keep trying until the plane actually lands.