Last week, I reported to you that BAA (Gatwick if we’re being specific) are looking for IT staff. Good news is, if you don’t want to work for BAA (they’ve sold Gatwick anyways), there’s always other IT positions.  It seems low cost budget airline EasyJet – “Come on, Let’s Fly” – must not make enough from ticket sales to pay for quality IT staff.  OK you ask, what is it they’ve done?  Well, EasyJet has offices in the UK (Luton unfortunately of all places) and also in Switzerland.  What’s that got to do with the price of fish?  Well, they put their T’s & C’s in both English and French on the ticket back.

Good news is if you live in England you still utilise the pound as your currency and EasyJet take this in to consideration when they write out our T’s & C’s.  Let’s have a look (if you click the image you’ll see what I mean):

Essentially if anything happens you’re allowed £3,500 or EUR 5,100.  At today’s exchange rate, I’d rather the Euro’s please (5100 EUR = 4572 GBP).  No worries…now here’s where they are looking for IT staff, if you’re in the market.  French version goes like this:

Again, if you click on the image, it gets bigger.  UT OH!  Houston, we picked a font that doesn’t display the Euro symbol.  What the text means to say is “5,100€ ou 3,500 £”, but what it actually says is “5,100_ ou 3,500 £”.  First of all, should we tell them we put the £ before the monetary value, nah.  However, the bigger faux pau is the fact that in their own language they’ve botched up their own symbol and when printed it comes out 5,100_.  By the way, don’t they change the comma for a full stop in French?  Shouldn’t it actually be 5.100€

Come on, let’s fly!

Tags: EasyJet, Faux paux, IT staff