Note to Real Estate Advertisers … remove Lorum Ipsum from your website and replace with actual captions before you let the site go live.
*sighs*
What do they teach the young people nowadays? Mutter mutter, grumble grumble.
Mind you, it’s easily done.
I well remember many years ago my company was preparing a website for the Liberal Party who were about to defend their Victorian Government in a general election. (Don’t shoot me, fellow leftie peeps, it was paying work and not all my partners were lefties.)
Anyhow this work mainly consisted of sticking up simple web pages with each Liberal candidate on, and then a short bio after them.
But in preparing the draft of the website for the notoriously mecurial Jeff Kennett and the Liberal Party luminaries, the junior flog who was doing the grunt work on the website hadn’t been provided with a list of names of the candidates, so he just typed “Some Liberal Wanker” as a placeholder under each photo. He was presumably a leftie, too. Or maybe just sceptical about politicians generally.
Anyhow, the account executive concerned bundled up the website draft without looking at it and emailed it to everyone for their approval. Like that.
When we realised the error, with a sick feeling in the pit of our stomachs, a few bottles of wine were opened and we bunkered down waiting for the phone call telling us we’d been sacked.
But apparently, when Jeff saw the mock up, he laughed like a drain and commented, “Well, most of them are!”
A politician with a sense of humour? Who knew?
Since those days Jeff has gone on to reinvent himself as a media personality, a passionate supporter of his beloved Hawthorn Football Club, and most of all as an effective and thoughtful advocate for the anti-Depression group Beyond Blue. And good on him, too. Having once been one of Australia’s most polarising personalities, he is now considered something of a local treasure, and the work he’s done on Depression has changed lives. Funny old world.
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That is funny, Mr. Y. 🙂 Good on Jeff Kennett for his sense of humor, and his work on Depression. As you say, depression is nothing to shrug off.
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Indeed – great story, eh? I’ve had a soft spot for him ever since even though politically we’re poles apart. I chatted to him at a local football match a couple of years back and said “Look, Jeff, I have to be honest, I could never vote for you in a month of Sundays, but I admire the work you’ve done on depression.” And he smiled and said “Well, that’s the important stuff, anyway.”
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