Reading Response 6

I didn’t find this article as entertaining as last week’s since it was a case study but I do agree on a lot of things that were said. I really do agree with the idea when the author said, “As texts become the chief vehicles for economic transactions and the chief grounds for making profits or achieving advantage, they also become potential vehicles for expensive error, impropriety, and even crime. It is not surprising that rules and regulatory agents have a growing presence in the oversight of writing (and its writers).” This quote really did stand out to me because I have experienced this before. I had an internship with College Works Painting where I ran my own branch under the company as a branch manager in Madison. With this internship, I had to market my own business, do my own finances, hire my own works, handle my own customers, and basically everything that comes in running a small business. So when I was writing the contract for an exterior and interior project, I was in a rush because I had to meet with a different client in a few minutes, I accidentally wrote that we would be painting a part of the exterior that the homeowner and I didn’t talk about but since it was on the contract, the homeowner kind of took it to their advantage and said that that’s what they thought was being painted as well. Necessarily, I lost a lot of money and time because it took more paint and labor hours to finish this job because I mistakenly wrote on the contract. Definitely was a vehicle for an expensive error.