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

[monkeyhands.livejournal.com]

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?

Hear, hear.