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

[jackiesjottings.livejournal.com]

Hmm- I wonder if bloke would like to do some helpdesk sessions ;)

[k425.livejournal.com]

I sometimes wonder whether my prof is dyslexic looking at the emails she rattles off. However, I think it's more a case of when she's rattling off an email her fingers work faster than her brain (and she can't touch-type) so I see random letter swapping, random capitalisation, punctuation gaps. If the email needs to be more formal it'll be re-read, but not a "iLndsy can yuo pirnt this Thanks".

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

But, but, but telecoms emailed AD. Of course the webmaster is the right person to contact.

[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.

[fanf]

Here the webmaster team get a load of email that's less than relevant because their email address appears at the bottom of many pages, since they're more or less responsible for the content or at least for publishing it.

hello future

[cleanskies.livejournal.com]

I think all the tone poets ended up working support desks

[uitlander]

Is that a 'real' Professor or a Professor for the purposes of hotel and flight upgrades by entitlement?