Wednesday 19 August 2009

FTW, MS Gillian McKeith


Do you remember my rant about people who buy correspondence PhDs from non-accredited colleges, and parade them as if they are bona fide qualifications? And my letter to Sainsbury's?
Well, I win. They are changing their database accordingly.

Although they quite clearly think I'm a nutter.
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13 comments:

  1. L.D. Durbin19 August 2009 at 22:13

    A victory for the real doctors :)

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  2. Gabriel Bodard19 August 2009 at 22:21

    "I know how annoying this must be for you."

    :-D

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  3. Melissa19 August 2009 at 22:37

    Its genius. I'm going to use that phrase everytime someone complains to me about anything from now on.

    them: "I've failed a course which means I've failed my degree. what can I do?"
    me: " I know how annoying that must be for you!"


    and check out that sig. really spent more than 1 second signing that letter off, eh? Ah well, Natalie Sweeney, Customer Manager of Sainsbury's. This blog ranks fairly high on google searches, so whenever anyone searches for you, I know how annoying it must be for you to be associated with this.... :-)

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  4. Alistair Brown19 August 2009 at 22:52

    A small victory for you, and against the abuse of qualifications. Well done.

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  5. Melissa19 August 2009 at 23:00

    thanks Ishmael!

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  6. mjp20 August 2009 at 00:19

    You can tell they're sincere by the genuine signature

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  7. Paul Saxton20 August 2009 at 00:36

    Great stuff! I went through a phase of sending irate 'nutter' letters (mainly to MPs and other government bods) and it was always amusing to see the replies I got. Even better by email because they were less formal - and less concerned with proper grammar, punctuation and spelling.

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  8. Dan Stowell20 August 2009 at 07:23

    Congrats Melissa!

    @mjp - yes, I noticed the signature too. They must have some scientific training: that's a chebyshev polynomial isn't it?

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  9. teekblog20 August 2009 at 08:22

    cracking result - I too love the "I know how annoying it must be for you" part of the letter!

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  10. tug20 August 2009 at 10:49

    You are already #1 in the Google search for "I know how annoying that must be for you" lets try and keep it that way:)

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  11. Bailey20 August 2009 at 11:53

    In my holiday job experience of receiving and replying to complaint letters, polite and sensible ones are so infrequent, it was actually a pleasure to reply to, and hopefully take action upon, their point.

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  12. kodabar21 August 2009 at 20:23

    I used to write replies to nutter letters for some MP's. The fun one can have in apparently expressing sympathy and regret whilst not actually doing so justifies those long English classes...

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