TPG Goof: Someone needs fired

[glchen]

I really don't know why people need to be fired for this sort of thing. If there is a mis-grade, then PSA guarantees the card. If there is a mechanical error, PSA will reholder the card for free and reimburse your shipping charge. If I went to a restaurant, and my order was incorrect, I wouldn't demand to see a manager and insist that the waiter or cook was fired because they messed up my order. People would be looking at me as if I were Satan.

[vintagetoppsguy]

Originally Posted by glchen

I really don't know why people need to be fired for this sort of thing. If there is a mis-grade, then PSA guarantees the card. If there is a mechanical error, PSA will reholder the card for free and reimburse your shipping charge. If I went to a restaurant, and my order was incorrect, I wouldn't demand to see a manager and insist that the waiter or cook was fired because they messed up my order. People would be looking at me as if I were Satan.

Not sure how it works at your place of employment, but at my place of employment you get fired for incompetency. Missing the yellow highlighter (or whatever it is) isn't a simple mistake, it's incompetency. We're not talking about a mechanical error or transposing a numerical grade here; we’re talking about something so obvious that anybody with any card knowledge whatsoever should notice that.

[Fred]

Here's the explanation for those that don't understand the Columbus Ohio colloquialism of "someone needs fired" -

In Ohio (I shit you not), the locals shorten terms that should include "to be". For example, the term "Someone needs fired" in Ohio means the same thing as "someone needs to be fired" in most other parts of the US.

Another example is if someone in Columbus Ohio says "the car needs fixed" then that would indicate "the car needs to be fixed". Seriously, this is the truth. I've only heard this colloquialism in Columbus Ohio. I visit that city frequenty and the people with whom I work really speak this way. I've come to understand and accept it.

Now, the weirdest thing that happened to me in a Columbus bar (this is before I started figuring out this colloquialism) was when a girl in a bar asked me "do you want laid". I'm serious... I didn't get it when she first said it... I must have had a stupid look on my face because she repeated it and then looked at me like I was nuts....

[zachtruitt]

I have also heard that turn of phrase (or lack thereof) from an ex-girlfriend from BFE, Pennsylvania. It's not my favorite!

[mark evans]

Not a firing offense in my view, but another reason to be cautious when dealing with TPG cards.

[Butch7999]

We were going to jump in to explain/defend the "needs fired" phrasing (we offer no opinion on the gist of the actual topic)
when it was first questioned, but the thread quickly left the issue behind.
Thanks, Fred and Zach, for reviving the subtopic.
The construction is part of a regional dialect (one we find charming) that runs in an east-west band mainly from
Central Pennsylvania to Central Ohio, and probably epitomized by "Pittsburghese."
Y'inz can read more here:
http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/am...pittsburghese/
http://pittsburgh.about.com/library/.../aa071200a.htm
http://dare.wisc.edu/

[MikeGarcia]

my car needs warshed...

[4815162342]

Originally Posted by Butch7999

We were going to jump in to explain/defend the "needs fired" phrasing (we offer no opinion on the gist of the actual topic) ...

The construction is part of a regional dialect (one we find charming) ...

Brucii?