2014-08-13

Does John Doe not work there any more?

We had not stopped laughing from the first call when they called again for Jane Doe.

First call - wav MP3
Second call - wav MP3

Not sure what else to say...

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    1. Now he is laughing at the picture of himself laughing. I suggest http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2014-08-13/ is appropriate.

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  2. Somewhere out there is an *actual* John Doe wondering why nobody ever calls him.

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  3. Almost as good as the consultancy in Cambridge with a fake "Guybrush Threepwood" employee on LinkedIn (Specialties: Thievery, Sword Mastery, Treasure Hunter-y). They get calls from recruiters asking for him...

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  4. For a long time, my brother was plagued with calls asking for a particular foreign name. Whoever it was, they often got quite exercised about their need to contact whoever that person was! Eventually, he got a new number (useful side effect of switching telcos without porting) which fixed the problem.

    Since it had been a new BT line with a new number, he had no idea who that person was: presumably they'd been the previous user of that number. Whoever kept calling just wouldn't accept that there was nobody of that name living there, though!

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    1. We've had a similar problem for the 2 years we've had this number from Virgin Media - Mr.Exton must have been on every calling list known to man....

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  5. When my boss at a previous company (NET-TEL) went to trade shows, he used to fill in the registration to get in and the cards for freebies etc. as:

    Henry T. Jantor
    St. Net-Tel The Virgin


    and dear old Henry also had his own email address (this was between 1995 and 2000 so no LinkedIn). He was a popular chap Mr. Jantor, he got loads of physical junk mail and marketing emails.

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  6. I just pass people on to my colleague, David Evnull - he never seems to answer the phone but you can leave a message which will be e-mailed to him, or just send him an e-mail directly - our mail format is first initial then surname @...

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  7. Ah Alex you appear to employ the brother of our colleague "Bob Slidel" (if you've seen office space...) ...intentionally misspelt surname of course

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  8. You should think yourselves lucky they didn't keep calling for other members of the Doe family. Hopefully they had a "Doh!" moment after this...

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