[milton-chat] Energy salesmen?

[Tim Cutts]

On 26 Sep 2008, at 6:42 am, Jen wrote:

> On 25 Sep 2008, at 23:07, Paul Oldham wrote:
>
>>
>> [2] ACR doesn't seem to be a problem for genuine incoming calls
>> now. The
>>    only exception we've had in recent times is Milton Primary School
>>    (keeping us on topic ;-)) who don't have a presentation number so
>>    couldn't get through. Odd really as they've got to be able to
>> phone
>>    any parent ...

I don't think Paul can blame them for that one - it's been Paul's  
decision to block their call, by using ACR.

> We used to (way back in the olden days) have that problem at
> Addenbrookes. They changed it, and the numbers all now start 0700
> according to my phone. I always thought it was odd.
>
> Have you told the school they have a problem? I'd have thought they'd
> want to change that.

I don't know.  It's fairly common practice for switchboards like that  
to not give out a number.  My workplace doesn't do it either, because  
(a) they don't want to give out the internal direct dialling numbers,  
and (b) don't want people at the other end to call the switchboard  
when returning, say, an unanswered call.  Policy (a) I understand,  
Policy (b) I think is a bit silly, but it's not uncommon.

Tim


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