Bloke calls

[j4]

This was sent to webmaster:

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.

Comments

[scat0324.livejournal.com]

Oddly, it's not AD's usual style (I'm on the case now) - said professor is usually very polite, careful and thankful for the help we can offer. I can only imagine that these phone calls have really annoyed and stretched AD to breaking point.

[arnhem.livejournal.com]

Possibly it's the middle of exam-marking time?

[j4.livejournal.com]

Time to unplug the phone while marking then...?

[j4.livejournal.com]

My first thought was "Dear 'AD', we have just received this rude and hastily-typed email purporting to be from you; is it real??" -- so maybe it wasn't really from AD at all. Maybe all these emails are being spoofed by sock-puppets (no relation, I know! ;-)

Telecoms are usually very helpful too (& TBH I don't think their email was unhelpful/inaccurate/impolite -- just v bad spelling).