Did Your Communications Product Say What You Intended?

This one came from Justin Berk of the Baltimore Weather Examiner.


I just had to share it with you. The lesson for communications professionals...check all work before it goes out, including images...your communication may not come across as intended.


Look at the picture and then read the explanation below in the form of a letter from the child's mother...

"Dear (Teacher),

I wish to clarify that I am not now, nor have I ever been, an exotic dancer. I work at Home Depot and I told my daughter how hectic it was last week before the blizzard hit. I told her we sold out every single shovel we had, and then I found one more in the back room, and that several people were fighting over who would get it. Her picture doesn't show me dancing around a pole. It's supposed to depict me selling the last snow shovel we had at Home Depot. From now on I will remember to check her homework more thoroughly before she turns it in.

Sincerely, Mrs. ...(Mother)"