Junk Mail

OOps, must be the chicken i've consummed.......or that bad bag of crisps!
Someone in work has given my new e-mail address to some computer nerd in advertising for our local authority (the people we work for) and i have been assaulted by invitations to go to reading in the library for tots i don't have, theatre tickets for what can only be described as "z" plays as opposed to "b" movies.....not that i'm fussy! I think it's the aqua robics and the ante-natal swimathon that's got me worried.
Do they know something i don't?
The thing is when i say i work for a local authority, and i do, well.......it's not exactly local, being over 100 miles away!
A whopping 5% discount for something that's going to cost me £50 to get to is sort of defeating the object!
Nevertheless, you've got to admire their tenacity.

So....anyway i phoned the nice lady and said i wasn't impressed....I did it very nicely, you know with the smile in your voice, that says I'll eat you later but for now I'm a smiley person.
Anyway she said "oooo I know, junk mail is an awful problem.....but i just press the button see and i wouldn't know how not to include you....coz i just send it all by pressing the button"

"Could she not just delete my name from her list just before she pressed the button?"......"no" she couldn't because then i wouldn't get the mail.

How sad i thought, hang on wasn't that what i wanted?

I said I'd be really impressed if she could do that but sadly she said she wasn't allowed.

"Where did she get my e_mail address?"

From your manager she told me, because she'd been concerned that she'd sent me the stuff and it was coming back as unreceived and that wasn't allowed.
How sad, i sympathised, whilst thinking that's because i've changed my address so you in paticular cannot send me all this drivel.

Now silly me, i thought your e-mail address was something personal and people needed to ask you if they could pass it on.....ooo and I must be daft because i thought well i can put a stop to the postie delivering junk and i can put a stop to the unsolicited phonecalls enticing me to change phone provider or wishing me to purchase double glazing......but apparently i can't stop the people i work for sending me unwanted, unasked for adverts in e-mails.

Sometimes they send me something i need to know, such as a change in law, or an invitation to a meeting, something pertenent to my job.
How i asked could i work out what was needed and what was junk?

"I dunno" she said "I just press the button!"