The Story is Great... The Editing--Not So Much

I stumbled across this wonderful news story about a business in a town I am very familiar with. Eugene, Oregon is known for being easy-going and has a bit of a reputation for hippy behavior and tie-dye. A bank in town lets employees bring their babies to work with them. Not only that, parents get to do their work while caring for their children. How awesome is that??? Kudos to this bank, which is the Pacific Cascade Federal Credit Union, by the way.

However, the station who did the story, KATU in Portland, did not edit the story before putting it up on their website, as you can see below.

The story quotes the woman in the photo: "Starting at 8:30am he'll come with me to work and then he's usually hear with me all day..."

Apparently the reporter misheard her. LOL They must have relied on a computer spell-checking program, since any editor worth their salt would have caught the misuse of "hear" instead of "here." Beware the computer spell-checking programs! They cannot be trusted! Always—ALWAYS check it manually before it is published!