DU, I have a *graphic* question

[underpants]

Could you imagine going into a presentation (whether it be a poster board type visual kind or in my case a spreadsheet) having used a Sharpie to correct, add, or remove part of the presentation?

Crossing out a 5 and adding or making it a 6
Using it to draw an arrow you forgot
Adding a line on a flowchart you left out

Aside from the reaction, would you ever consider doing that? Wouldn't you KNOW that it would leap off the page and it would be all anyone notices?

If the member of a team in a time constraint wouldn't SOMONE say "No! Stop!" choosing to let it fly or come up with some plan to explain it or just scrapping the visual. Of course there is also avoiding it by being professional and reviewing the presentation for errors.

As a financial type person I also couldn't imagine walking into a meeting with numbers that aren't up to date let alone 5 months (days in Clustertrump's case) old.

BTW - Sharpie offers an autocorrect of "Sharpiegate" and I think I've only typed that once and it was on my phone not this iPad.

[HipChick]

1. Would not be able to get away with that at my job

Would look too unprofessional...cheap even..

[underpants]

3. Especially correcting a previous error

[htuttle]

2. We do a lot of whiteboarding at my job

So I can see drawing something while presenting to illustrate a point. I've done so myself.

But I wouldn't draw onto a prepared graphic and expect nobody to notice...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. It's the sort of thing you'd expect a small child to do.

Any reasonably sentient adult could see that a hand-drawn line made with a Sharpie marker was not part of the official map and was added clumsily by someone who wanted the map to show something it didn't show. It's amazingly, transparently stupid.

Donnie: My dog ate my homework!

Teacher: Really? Can you bring me a note from your mom?

(the next day)

Donnie: Here's the note from my mom.

Teacher: It says, "Donnie's dog ate my homework. Love, Donnie's mom." Did your mom really write this?

Donnie: Yes! And here's a picture of my dog eating my homework!



Teacher: That's not your homework.

Donnie: Yes, it is! I just wrote "homework" on it so you'd know it was my homework.

Teacher: I'm calling your mom.

Donnie: You can't.

Teacher: Why?

Donnie: She's... dead. Yeah, that's it. She's dead.

Teacher: When did that happen?

Donnie: Last week. I've been home alone all by myself and I couldn't stop my dog from eating my homework because my mom is dead.

Teacher: Then how did she write the letter?

Donnie: Actually my grandma wrote it. It's her dog that ate my homework.

Teacher: So I'll call your grandma, then.

Donnie: Um, she's... not home. She might be dead, too.

And so forth....

[underpants]

6. Okay okay let's negotiate

How about a note from Epstein’s mother?

[smirkymonkey]

5. If I did something like that at work, I would be marched into HR or the Health Center

immediately. And most likely, I would be fired or at the very least, put on some kind of administrative leave.

There is no place else that such egregious fuckwittery would every fly without serious consequences except for the White House. How pathetic is that? This country's leadership is very sick. The entire gang of them needs to be removed and replaced.