Saturday, April 4, 2009

Who Ya Gonna Call?

I did a little cold calling (emailing) a few weeks back to some professors and department chairs at a number of universities, hawking my indexing, proofreading, and copyediting services. In response to one email, sent to a professor of religion at a quite fine northeastern liberal arts college, I received the following:

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Dear Bob,
Thank you for your message, and I will be happy to pass this information on to other colleagues in my program. I'll keep you in mind for future projects, though right now I have no present needs of proffreading services.
Best wishes,

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Now, either per has a finely honed sense of humor and irony, or, well, uh . . . draw your own conclusions.
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2 comments:

  1. moiApril 7, 2009 at 5:35 PM

    ROTFL. That's about the funniest thing I've heard all week. And you simply can't ask. In case he wasn't being ironic. Then you'd NEVER get work.

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  2. czarApril 8, 2009 at 2:23 PM

    Moi:

    Agreed. Best to leave as is.

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