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Fell right at home, whoever you are
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2017 7:57 am
by MajGenl.Meade
Ohio State University wanted to reassure 17,000 accepted applicants that they won't be lost in the crowd at an institution with 50,000-plus undergraduates.
The problem: The postcards they sent out all had wrong first and/or middle names for the prospective students.
A "mail-merge error" caused the first-name and last-name fields in a database to become misaligned, said Dave Isaacs, spokesman for OSU's Office of Student Life. This, as the office was trying burnish its personal-attention cred by inviting students to consider residential "learning communities" tailored to their interests.
"The recommendations were right; it was just the names that were hinked," Isaacs said.
The Columbus Dispatch • Wednesday March 23, 2016 5:34 PM. Yeah it's not new news but....
Fell Right A Home
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2017 3:03 pm
by RayThom
MajGenl.Meade wrote:Fell right at home, whoever you are
I did... bruised my knee. Ouch!
Re: Fell Right A Home
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:05 am
by MajGenl.Meade
RayThom wrote:MajGenl.Meade wrote:Fell right at home, whoever you are
I did... bruised my knee. Ouch!
Then you didn't fall right. Here's a hint from our bathroom here at the farm:
Motivating the Elderly not to Stumble:
#9: The Bathroom
Re: Fell right at home, whoever you are
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 8:56 am
by BoSoxGal
Considering that most slip and fall accidents at home take place in the bath, that decor is indeed ill-advised.
Re: Fell right at home, whoever you are
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 11:37 am
by Crackpot
Good method to limit the amount spent on elder care tho.
Re: Fell right at home, whoever you are
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 3:34 pm
by BoSoxGal
Maybe, maybe not. Imagine the round the clock care that would be required for a retiree tragically lobotomized by one of those towel horns?!
Step carefully in the bathroom, Meade & Mrs.
Re: Fell right at home, whoever you are
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 4:54 pm
by Long Run
They could present a dilemma.
Re: Fell right at home, whoever you are
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 4:43 am
by MajGenl.Meade
Not so much the towel horns that I fear
It's the impala (ha ha, not) horn that holds the toilet roll. You're sitting there quietly, enjoying reading "Long Walk Home". The bookmark slips out to the floor and one automatically leans forward to the right.....
Re: Fell right at home, whoever you are
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 6:35 am
by BoSoxGal
Dear God, remove them to storage at once!
Re: Fell right at home, whoever you are
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 2:26 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
Not with our landlady. She got a little upset when we vacuumed - things stay in place at her house.
