Pubic Relations..

Is by far my favourite PR-related typo. "My fifteen year tenure at Big Bollocks PR has helped me to become a well respected pubic relations expert" a consultant may write to a potential client. Laughter ensues. Follwed, probably, by a three month project contract and talk of 'delivering on promises'.

In fact, I think that the typo isn't in fact a typo at all. More likely, it's one of those Freudian slip thingys (oh for a job in communications), which bears a direct reference to the fact that PR people are notorious for shagging everything in sight.

The so-much-porn-so-little-time web has verified my theory. An IT website has posted the following statistics:

-- One third of Brits have had a noncommittal "toss" with a fellow worker and the majority of managers consider the practice "perfectly acceptable".
-- Eighty-three percent of senior management have no objections to inter-staff nookie, and 53 percent said they'd indulge in it a bit themselves (even if it were with a junior colleague).
-- Forty-three percent admitted they'd fancied someone at work but were unsure about what to do about it.
-- In addition to the aforementioned 33 percent who've enjoyed a brief encounter with a fellow worker, 29 percent have formed long-term relationships with someone from work.
-- Twenty-eight percent of those polled said they'd indulged in e-flirting.
-- And with regard to good, old-fashioned sexual fantasizing, 44 percent confessed up to daydreaming about poking a colleague.

All of this leaves little time for actual work (none of the above constitutes work for those who wondered). So, clients, next time your PR exec doesn't answer the phone, deliver a report or get your news into the FT -- you know why.