Swedish teen shocked by 'wonky boob' insult
Published: 16 Nov 11 16:23 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/37392/20111116/
A 14-year-old girl was told she had “wonky boobs” in an unexpected text message sent by Swedish directory assistance service 118 800.
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In her inquiry, the 14-year-old girl asked who she was, according to the Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper.
A few minutes later, the girl received the following answer:
“XX is a girl with boobs that are too big and wonky who likes to pretend she's a blowfish at the clubs at Stureplan with random Syrian disco princes. Sometimes she blogs and one notices she only has 3 percent of her brain left because she's injected it into her lips.”
The girl and her mother shocked by the lengthy response and have reported the matter to police.
“This is a form of verbal sexual assault,” the girl's mother told the newspaper.
A police spokesperson told DN that the message would most likely be considered a form of general insult that wouldn't result in criminal charges, although the family could opt to pursue a civil case against the company.
Markus Öhman, the CEO of 118 800 told the newspaper that the company was “sorry” that the messages “slipped through” despite clear guidelines.
“It was just mean and not funny,” he told DN, adding that he had since spoken to the employee who sent the message.
“He thought he was sending it to another person.”
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what can be the possible question, the answer to which was this?
Though it was a big ethical breach.
Otherwise if the question was intended to be funny, then the given answer is as appropriate as any other.
The only time this answer is "verbal sexual assault" is if the respondent knows the questioner personally. And then one has to ask why is the male employee of 118 800 taking such an intimate interest in a 14 year old girl. Or did he think he was texting his girlfriend? For that she should give him a hard slap across the face.
One or more people should be fired directly, as would happen in any country with any common sense of personal responsiblity.
He got "a good talking to"
Accountability at its Swedish best.
The problem with "common sense" is it isn't common at all. It's an a postiori intrusion into argumentation based on the fallacity that it is a priori. One can suggest that the worker at 118 800 should have thought more carefully about what he wrote but quite honestly a stupid question deserves a stupid answer.
Your assumption is the texts were between independent peers, or even adults. The girl was a paying customer the 118 800 response was from an employee responding to a customer. I am well-aware of the the long Swedish tradition of poor customer service. This goes beyond poor customer service. this is abuse of the customer. Any inquiry to the 118 800 service (no matter how inane) is paid for by the customer.
The employee was representing his employer in an official capacity. Any firm with a profit motive should fire employees who abuse the paying customers.
So exactly what answer should have been provided? "You are Cattie of The Local and are aged 14"? Of course that then begs the question "why are you using this service from your mobile and preventing more important contacts to us?"
Or should it have been, "this is the eternal question asked by all philosophers, 'who am I? Descartes said 'I think, therefore I am' but that raises issues on epistomology that later philosophers answered different. Perhaps the real answer is "Cattie" that we simply don't know because there is nothing beyond the great silence of unknowing.'
Or should there have been no answer, the enactment of that great silence of unknowing leaving the questioner with no answer at all.
Whichever way you look at it, providing no answer, writing the philosophical treatise, stating the facts (which would raise ethical issues of why is an unknown adult texting a 14 year old girl), or the hilarious "wonky boob" jibe, 118 800 and the operative concerned are on a hiding to nowhere. It's like the question I now ask you "when did you stop abusing yourself?" There is no answer that isn't itself incriminating.
Although the main article doesn't have a picture of boobs, the adjacent summary column does. So I guess we are on The Local site after all.
seems like the guy had his description right as he got a bite!
now we just need a picture of those wonky boobs!
I thought she got what she deserved a funny answer to her funny question!
if not she needs to visit me so we can sort out who she is ! I don't mind wonky boobs. or is it the girl is the wonky boob attached to the nice breasts??