I Hate Cwazy People!
Tuesday February 16th 2010
About 12:30 today one of our guys at the office received a rather confusing phone call about a shipping container and where to email the appropriate documentation to. Not sure what it was about (but assuming it might be something to do with one of the boss's side projects) he provided our support email address.
Shortly thereafter we received a shipping docket for a company we've never heard of. Realising that the initial phone call was a wrong number we emailed them back. The following emails illustrate the fun and games that ensued...
(All names and phone numbers have been changed to protect the innocent...)
Hi Jan,
Looks like you're looking for Polecat Patios [website address]. It's not us.
Kind Regards
Hello,
I called them and they asked me to send all the docs to your email address.
Can you please forward all the docs to them?
Thanks & Regards
Jan,
You didn't actually call them at all, you called us (presumably you dialled the wrong number) and the person you spoke to - unsure about what the call was concerned with - provided our support email address.
We have never had any dealings with Polecat Pations and prior to Googling their business name today have never even heard of them.
I'd suggest it would be better if you determined the correct contact details and resent the email from your end, rather than them receiving their documents via a random third party company they have never even heard of.
Kind Regards
Hi,
I called 555 826 533 and this is the number from the white page for POLECAT PATIOS. And the staff asked me to email all the docs for you.
If 555 826 533 is your company's telephone number then it is the mistake from the white page.
Thanks & Regards
Jan,
Our number is 555 826 833. You must have hit the 8 rather than the 5 when dialling. I was personally sitting next to the person who received your initial call and who was quite confused at the mention of a shipping container.
Kind regards
I am pretty sure the number I called is the one from the white page. Anyway I will call the below number again. Please disregard all the docs if they are not for you.
Regards
Oh yes. It's much more likely that sunspots or something caused the Telstra exchange to connect you to the wrong number that you simply misdialed a single digit. Sheeze!
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File under: Workin` for the Man
God Help Us...
Tuesday February 9th 2010
Today is the ninth day of the second month of the tenth year of the century, which is to say 09-02-10, and therefore 090210, and thus 90210.
I guess we should be thankful it only comes around once a century...
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File under: Current Events
So what, we're using this blog as Twitter now?
Friday February 5th 2010
Last night I dreamt that I was buying a pair of shoes from the girl in the office next door.
I have no idea what this means.
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File under: Nocturnal Adventures
On the Democracy Front
Wednesday February 3rd 2010
Well thankfully it looks like South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson has backed down over his ridiculous and anti-democratic laws concerning political blogging. Excellent!
For those late to the party, Atkinson got some new laws put in in South Australia this week forcing anyone who wants to post anything anywhere online about the upcoming state election to sign their comments with their real name and postcode. It seems that he was motivated to create such laws because he believed the opposition were using a false identity to harass him in the comments section of a local newspaper website (oh poor diddums!). Apparently this wouldn't threaten free speech in any way because people could still say what they liked, they'd just have to say who they were at the same time (the fact that the option of anonymity is crucial to genuine free speech seems to have evaded his tiny mind).
In the face of (unsurprising) public outrage he's had to back down and promised to retroactively cancel the laws after the election. He's attributing this outrage to the "blogging generation", which only goes to show how hopelessly out of touch he is.
Additionally, in a nice bit of irony it turns out that the 'fake commenter' created by the Liberal Party to harass him in the Adelaide Advertiser is in fact a real person who lives less that 500m from his office. Nice to know he keeps in touch with his electorate.
Of course Atkinson is the same guy who's singlehandedly preventing an 'R' classification for computer games anywhere in the country, apparently on the basis that anyone who wants to play anything more sophisticated that Mario Cart is a ravening sociopath. He also claimed that the gamers lobby (who are trying to get such a classification set up) are sending him death threats - on the basis of one threatening letter that turned out to be related to a completely different case.
What can you say but roll on the election!
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File under: Current Events
