NTL abusive message

Our man in Havana

Found this tonight:

NTL has launched an urgent investigation into why one of the company's recorded messages told punters to "f**k off".

Customers in the North East of England were shocked by the verbal assault when they reported faults yesterday .

The Sun managed to get a transcript of the message before it was pulled. The message said: "Hello. You are through to NTL customer services. We don't give a f**k about you. We are never here. We just will f**k you about, basically, and we are not going to handle any of your complaints. Just f**k off and leave us alone. Get a life."

At this stage it's not known if security on NTL's network was breached, or whether it was an inside job. A spokeswoman for the cableco said it was "too early to say".

"The priority yesterday was to remove the offending message," she told us.

"This is a serious matter. The message was highly offensive and we would like to apologise to our customers," she said. ®

I only wish we had a message like that at work.

neokenzo

LOL, thats funny. How did NTL let that happen.

Neil_Sedaka

If they're anything like NTL Ireland then it was probably for real

seamus

My bets are on drunken admins or outgoing call centre staff.

OLDYELLAR

oh my god thats brilliant!id love to get a job in there and say that to all the customers be mad funny , not good for a reference though.

eoin_f

need to get a copy of that, would be great as bacground music for a personal website..............oh away with the thoughts

X-Dawg

"The priority yesterday was to remove the offending message," she told us.

...which probably took their incompetant asses they whole day judging by the way they phrased it....

The Clown Man

Lol when I worked in Eircell a few years ago some fool got on the text advertising machine and told a large portion of the Eircell community they were gay or something along those lines.

Also, AIB rand me one day to say that they had cancelled my credit card because one of their employees had been found in Milan using a load of credit card numbers he had stolen to get himself on a 6 month holiday round the world. Apparently he had used numbers in Berlin, Prague, Madrid and then Milan before they realised what he was doing! He had booked a flight to Bangkok just before he was caught!

woosaysdan

typicall NTL LOL!!! its about as true a msg you could get though!!!

uberwolf

that was on theregister.co.uk about three weeks ago, some move allright

Deadwing

lol..yeah NTL should probably use that as thier new slogan or something, as it pretty much the truth anyway

HashSlinging

sounds like AOL when I used to work there...