Bloke calls
Jun. 9th, 2009 09:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
This was sent to webmaster:
I did laugh at "bloke calls", but note that 'AD' (who also can't type, doesn't understand punctuation, and for some reason thinks webmaster is the person to contact about getting a phone fixed) is a professor.
I enclose an email from the telecoms people. It
is virtually illiterate: is it real?? And why
cant you sort out these sutomated calls that are
so irritating?...please! AD.
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:23:23 +0100
Good Morning
You're Administrator will have to officially
request the number change.
I'm afraid there are far too many company's doing
cold calling we can not
bloke them all and they regularly change the
outgoing number. We only bloke
calls in serious cases such a threatening and
abusive calls.
Best Regard
Telecoms
I did laugh at "bloke calls", but note that 'AD' (who also can't type, doesn't understand punctuation, and for some reason thinks webmaster is the person to contact about getting a phone fixed) is a professor.
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Date: 2009-06-09 07:30 pm (UTC)Don't academics still use pine or something? (elm for the adventurous, I suppose)
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Date: 2009-06-09 09:06 am (UTC)"He's very bright, he just gets bored easily". :-}
I think it's just rude, to be honest. It's a way of saying "Look at me, I'm so busy and important that I don't have time to check my typing (or learn to use a spellchecker)". If someone wants me to do something for them but can't be bothered to take the extra minute necessary to re-read what they've written and make it make sense, why should I take the extra time to decode their message and do what they're asking?
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Date: 2009-06-09 09:27 am (UTC)I also have a senior colleague WHO --- writes email LIKE THIS. I think he's dyslexic but I don't THINK that explains the RANDOM --- CAPITALISED words --- and DASHES. He has improved slightly, perhaps because people tend to look at him in meetings when discussing the awful way students compose email.
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Date: 2009-06-09 02:44 pm (UTC)* With email to people I don't know I will usually at least sign on / sign off ("Dear X or "Hi X" at the beginning, some kind of "Yours/Thanks/Regards" at the end).
* Email to colleagues tends to be much less formally structured (but may still be formal in tone if they're senior to me -- just doesn't need all the "Dear X" apparatus).
* Email to friends reads like far-too-accurately transcribed speech... :-}
I rather like your senior colleague's style. Looks like something from an 18th century novel. :)
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Date: 2009-06-09 02:54 pm (UTC)I am second marking the first year numerical analysis scripts this afternoon. Actually I am not at this precise moment, but I should be.
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Date: 2009-06-09 09:28 am (UTC)I find that really, really irritating on public fora: the 10 seconds the writer couldn't be bothered to invest in ensuring clarity is vastly outweighed by the 1 second each of the hundred people who read it.
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Date: 2009-06-09 10:34 am (UTC)Hear, hear.
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Date: 2009-06-09 08:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-09 09:09 am (UTC)Also, "somebody told me to look it up on the website and I got there and didn't understand how to find things so I just closed my eyes and clicked until the internet gave me an email to send" = webmaster. :-/
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Date: 2009-06-09 02:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-09 02:38 pm (UTC)Telecoms are usually very helpful too (& TBH I don't think their email was unhelpful/inaccurate/impolite -- just v bad spelling).
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Date: 2009-06-09 02:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-09 02:54 pm (UTC)We don't do that so much here, though (there isn't always an obvious contact email on a page, this is a known problem, having a link to wm would probably be better [though we'd get more garbage] and having a link to helldesk would be even better) & it's not clear which web page the user would have come from anyway.
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Date: 2009-06-09 04:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-09 05:38 pm (UTC)for the purposes of hotel and flight upgradesby entitlement?