Damn! Misspelled the name of the high school on the diplomas

[underpants]

Matoaca High School graduates receive diplomas with the school name misspelled

https://www.12onyourside.com/2024/05/21/matoaca-high-school-graduates-receive-diplomas-with-school-name-misspelled/




RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - The 2024 graduating class of Matoaca High School in Chesterfield celebrated their academic milestone with family and friends on Monday morning.

After collecting their diplomas, some students and family members were struck by something: The school’s name was printed incorrectly.

All of the correct letters were there, but out of order. The month listed on the diploma was June, not May.

[Arne]

1. The printed name is better.

Sounds like an Aluminum company.

[underpants]

3. "Pocahontas"

Matoaca is a census-designated place (CDP) in Chesterfield County, Virginia, United States. The population was 2,403 at the 2010 census.[3] It is named after the Pamunkey princess Matoaka who was better known by her nickname "Pocahontas".[4] It was near the site of an Appomattoc village Matoka or Matoks, which was reputedly her girlhood home, and the palace town of the weroansqua Oppussoquionuske.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matoaca,_Virginia

[Arne]

4. I looked it up as well

but I also looked up the misspelling and got nothing.

[jimfields33]

2. Our school gave blank diploma holders for ceremony

I think the school wanted to make sure gowns were returned. lol. The diploma was mailed later. God only knows where mine is now. I also have no clue where my bachelor or master’s certificates are. Who cares I guess.

[Blue Owl]

5. Is tRump in the diploma manufacturing business now?

[Hotler]

6. Years ago I worked in the drafting department of a large structural steel fabrication shop.

The company was throwing an open house for customers, contractors, suppliers, etc., to show off the shop and equipment, and capabilities, it was a big deal. Management thought it would be a good idea to have banners made up with the equipment names and capacities, etc. printed on them and hang them over each machine. They had an angle iron shear and they spelled it 'Angel' iron shear. I was senior checker in the drafting room and being a smart ass and my weapon of choice is red ink. I grabbed a can of red spray paint and asked the shop superintendent to get the man-lift to lift me up there, when he asked "what the F for" I said so I can red line the spelling on that banner. he was pissed. They only had about 2-hours till the doors opened to get a new banner.

[malthaussen]

8. I have found smartassery rarely pays off at work.

I had a job at a big printing factory, and we were going to do a big run of business cards for the company, to be used in the yearly handout to show how good and efficient the company was. Somebody thought it would be cool to have the initial letter of the company, "S," made as an outline and filled with a spectrum of color. But for whatever reason, they subcontracted the filling of the letters.

We get the cards to glue onto the handout, and smartass me notices that in 75% of the cases (conservatively), the colors were well outside the bounds of the "S," sometimes not even touching it. I pointed this out and they yelled at me and ran 'em anyway. I was fired shortly thereafter (for an assortment of reasons), but I had the last laugh, the company was bankrupt within a year.

-- Mal

[mitch96]

7. Almost as bad as the guy who realized the tattoo artist misspelled the work...

He inked in "No Regerts" instead of "No Regrets"....uff that's got to hurt...
m

[wnylib]

9. I went to a public high school in Erie, PA that was named after a local Civil War hero.

He came from prominent families on both sides, so he was given his mother's maiden name for his first name. Full name was Strong Vincent.

When I wrote the school name on job applications and on college entrance applications in other cities, people mentioned the name in interviews. They thought that I'd written it incorrectly and that it was supposed to be Saint Vincent. So I had to explain the origin of the first name and that I'd written it correctly.

The high school became a middle school several years after I graduated. When it was still a high school, all the sports teams were called Colonels after Colonel Strong Vincent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_Vincent

[dai13sy]

10. Who was in charge of the diplomas

I would fire them. They deserve it. Just one of the days students look forward to and go to a lot of trouble to make the day as perfect as possible and then one of the grownups made sure the diplomas were screwed up. Just perfect moron!