Friday humour

TheMarlin

TheMarlin

Kittyfrisk

Haych

Winny_Pooh

bertie

bertie

Winny_Pooh said:

thing is, thats about right for a journalistic interview report  -   I have some experience in that (being "under quoted" )

TheOtherDennis

Genuine personal experience with tabloid journalists.

When I was a freelance writer for marketing, I worked for an agency that had Barclaycard as a client.

I once had to write a letter explaining a change in interest rates for their cardholders. Something like that always need something straightforward, a quick explanation of what was happening, customer service number, shut up and take the money.

I forgot about it for a couple of weeks, then one day I go into the agency for another job, and the place is in uproar.

"Den, that fucking letter!! Did you write it?"

"Erm, yeah, why?"

"Apparently the Sun has run a story saying a cardholder has written in and said that the customer service phone number rings through to a premium rate porn line!"

"FUUUUUCCKKKK!"

"Are you sure you got the number right?"

"Absolutely, I definitely made sure I got the number right, I always do..."

Anyway, cue frantic checking, double checking, triple checking and so on for a couple of hours, before we realised we weren't to blame. We contact the printers, to check they weren't to blame, we double check that the right letters were sent out to the right people.

Eventually, we all calm down. It wasn't us, can't have been anyone we worked with. Barclaycard were equally adamant it certainly wasn't their fault, we'd done all the work, all they'd done was sign it off and pay for it.

So one of our people thought, I'm going to check up on this. They ring the journalist who called us for a quote about it.

"Yeah, about that letter..."

"I know pretty fucking funny, yeah? What you got to say about it then?"

"Well the thing is, we've checked everything and everywhere and we absolutely cannot find any letters sent out by us with that number on it. Would you be able to send us a copy of the letter you have with that number on, please, so we can check it out?"

Click brrrrrr....

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goldtop

TheOtherDennis said:

Genuine personal experience with tabloid journalists.

When I was a freelance writer for marketing, I worked for an agency that had Barclaycard as a client.

I once had to write a letter explaining a change in interest rates for their cardholders. Something like that always need something straightforward, a quick explanation of what was happening, customer service number, shut up and take the money.

I forgot about it for a couple of weeks, then one day I go into the agency for another job, and the place is in uproar.

"Den, that fucking letter!! Did you write it?"

"Erm, yeah, why?"

"Apparently the Sun has run a story saying a cardholder has written in and said that the customer service phone number rings through to a premium rate porn line!"

"FUUUUUCCKKKK!"

"Are you sure you got the number right?"

"Absolutely, I definitely made sure I got the number right, I always do..."

Anyway, cue frantic checking, double checking, triple checking and so on for a couple of hours, before we realised we weren't to blame. We contact the printers, to check they weren't to blame, we double check that the right letters were sent out to the right people.

Eventually, we all calm down. It wasn't us, can't have been anyone we worked with. Barclaycard were equally adamant it certainly wasn't their fault, we'd done all the work, all they'd done was sign it off and pay for it.

So one of our people thought, I'm going to check up on this. They ring the journalist who called us for a quote about it.

"Yeah, about that letter..."

"I know pretty fucking funny, yeah? What you got to say about it then?"

"Well the thing is, we've checked everything and everywhere and we absolutely cannot find any letters sent out by us with that number on it. Would you be able to send us a copy of the letter you have with that number on, please, so we can check it out?"

Click brrrrrr....

Daily Mirror published my home phone number as that of a company taking part in one of its unmissable offers. Was not amused.

rogd

EricTheWeary

goldtop said:

TheOtherDennis said:

Genuine personal experience with tabloid journalists.

When I was a freelance writer for marketing, I worked for an agency that had Barclaycard as a client.

I once had to write a letter explaining a change in interest rates for their cardholders. Something like that always need something straightforward, a quick explanation of what was happening, customer service number, shut up and take the money.

I forgot about it for a couple of weeks, then one day I go into the agency for another job, and the place is in uproar.

"Den, that fucking letter!! Did you write it?"

"Erm, yeah, why?"

"Apparently the Sun has run a story saying a cardholder has written in and said that the customer service phone number rings through to a premium rate porn line!"

"FUUUUUCCKKKK!"

"Are you sure you got the number right?"

"Absolutely, I definitely made sure I got the number right, I always do..."

Anyway, cue frantic checking, double checking, triple checking and so on for a couple of hours, before we realised we weren't to blame. We contact the printers, to check they weren't to blame, we double check that the right letters were sent out to the right people.

Eventually, we all calm down. It wasn't us, can't have been anyone we worked with. Barclaycard were equally adamant it certainly wasn't their fault, we'd done all the work, all they'd done was sign it off and pay for it.

So one of our people thought, I'm going to check up on this. They ring the journalist who called us for a quote about it.

"Yeah, about that letter..."

"I know pretty fucking funny, yeah? What you got to say about it then?"

"Well the thing is, we've checked everything and everywhere and we absolutely cannot find any letters sent out by us with that number on it. Would you be able to send us a copy of the letter you have with that number on, please, so we can check it out?"

Click brrrrrr....

Daily Mirror published my home phone number as that of a company taking part in one of its unmissable offers. Was not amused.

In the days when my job was running sex offender treatment programmes I had to get a (young female) admin member of staff to send a letter out to each group member about a change in times. For some reason later I had a look at one of the letters and asked her what contact number she’d put on the letters. She went slightly green as she realised she’d sent her home phone number to a dozen convicted sex offenders. 

bobeschism

TheMarlin

Kittyfrisk

AK99

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TheMarlin

rogd

Emp_Fab

TheMarlin said:

How has this not got the most LOLs of any post in this thread?!

It's the only one so far that has made me almost soil myself.

@themarlin

TheMarlin

Emp_Fab said:

TheMarlin said:

How has this not got the most LOLs of any post in this thread?!

It's the only one so far that has made me almost soil myself.

@themarlin

It did make me chuckle. However, some might take offence as is the fashion these days.