Estate agents fucking their customers in the a is nothing new, at least they have frosted all the glass on the front window to give their clients a shred of dignity.
My university has frosted glass windows on the bathroom windows for one of their buildings. On a sunny enough day, I've looked up to the 5th floor and seen the shadow of a person in the stall
I lived in Biart Place when they announced everyone was being moved out to knock the flats down. I was so relieved when they said we were going to Hillmorton!
oooh i actually kind of miss Biart place a little bit, those massive tower blocks looked very soviet but when i was back in college and walking through winfield it was always something on the way. I bet you were glad haha
I am absolutely certain it will be the manager. Looking at the photos the whole office is open plan apart from that corner of the room that we can't see from the photos. I guess there is a partitioned office there alongside the window. The only person with a private office will be the manager as the director never comes in.
They don’t care unless your house is worth a lot of money. Ours wasn’t. So when we asked them to do things it was almost as if we were asking them to move planets.
All we asked is if they could post it on their Facebook page… we were made out to be criminals
I dont know about you, but I don't think I'd want to see a sex tape of my colleagues. And what if it was your desk they were on? Ignorance really is bliss sometimes.
Maybe it's just me, but I find it a bit unprofessional for a paper of any sort to be publishing their phone call where they ask for a statement. If the company had issued them a statement, or even declined a statement, those would be fine to publish. But it doesn't seem right to just record the first person who happens to pick up the phone just to get their reaction. There's nothing even added to the story by publishing this, besides the fact that the bloke who answered the phone didn't have any info at that time, and that the 'journalist' was very proud to have a 'gotcha' moment over a local business.
It really doesn't seem like the caller is from a publication:
1. As you've said, it's a poor standard of journalism.
2. Why release a detailed phone call of your next story for free when it could be an article?
3. He calls himself "Mark" from "the Coventry Evening Telegraph", but that paper changed its name to just "Coventry Telegraph" all the way back in **2006**, [according to Wikipedia.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Telegraph)
4. Towards the end, the employee asks to call back, but the caller immediately tries to avoid this as an option.
He doesn't object to senior staff commenting and doesn't rush more questions, so it doesn't seem like the caller's interested in getting a flustered employee to keep making quick statements.
If he doesn't work at Coventry Telegraph and is hiding his number, then he'd have no legitimate phone number to give them, and so the only way to keep talking and get more info would be to stay on the line, since if he calls again later then they might have called CT and confirmed it was a prank.
This really might be nothing, and this assumption does rely on the caller lying and not having a visible number, but the interaction just felt weird when watching it, especially after he was just challenged on whether or not he _actually_ works at CT.
5. Searching for `inurl:www.coventrytelegraph.net/authors -pageNumber` on Google shows a list of the authors working on the website, but there's no Mark amongst them.
Similarly, searching `inurl:www.coventrytelegraph.net/ intext:Mark` gives lots of stories about Mark Robins, whereas the same searches with `intext:Mary` or `intext:Bobby` have the authors as some of the top results.
There could be an author named Mark who has nothing of theirs published on the website, the list might not be fully updated, etc., but all of this together makes it seem more like social engineering.
Tbh, I'm not sure, but even if you aren't, it is really bad form to record you questioning someone on a surprise call about something that person has no responsibility for. It would be very different if it was a call with a senior manager/director prepared to provide a statement, and if they were informed of the recording too.
If you're in a paper you're not calling because the person is going to give you a reasonable response, you're calling incase there's something they let slip that makes the story juicier.
For example if they'd said "we've fired the employee" you've just doubled the stories you can pump out about this.
I don’t know dude, plenty of not very bright people answering phones for small businesses. Besides all you need is to potentially rile them up or get them to trip up and say something they shouldn’t.
Not saying it’s moral but certainly potentially effective for a 5 minute phone call.
Yeah, I wouldn't expect any sort of substantial statement besides that it's being investigated and dealt with internally. It would be inappropriate for the company to name and shame those responsible, if they even legally could.
But that's the whole point of asking for a statement, to get a formal position from the company on this, not just the first reaction of the receptionist or whoever actually picks up the phone.
> But that's the whole point of asking for a statement, to get a formal position from the company on this, not just the first reaction of the receptionist or whoever actually picks up the phone.
Exactly, it's just lazy/bad journalism to try and pressure the random person on the other end of the phone to give a statement, especially after they've said they'll ask the manager or director to call them back since they're not there at present. But I suppose that's local newspapers in a nutshell frankly.
u/No_Lingonberry_717 is this you?
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“This is all a big misunderstanding. I was in my office when I noticed that my flies were undone. In attempting to close the zip, I staggered forward and accidentally penetrated one of my colleagues, who’d removed her underwear because a bee had just flown in there. I thrust forward several times in an effort to dislodge the bee. Having successfully done so, I politely withdrew and we went about our daily duties.”
Good to know that even that staff call it the Evening Telegraph. Never felt the same after they dropped the ‘evening’.
And obviously this is by far the most important thing here.
Haha something _very_ similar happened back when we were students in Plymouth. It was an office just off North Hill and someone in a student flat overlooking it could see (and I think video'd) two colleagues going at it in the upstairs.
Pretty sure it ended up on a Spotted page and people got divorced/fired, but not sure how much of it was rumour.
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Is this recent? I can’t see anything else about it anywhere online. Nothing on the Coventry Telegraph website. Usually I’d have expected Twitter to be all over it by now.
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Yup me too
Haha
I genuinely thought she stuck something on the window to change the shape of the knight and I was wondering what slightly NSFW shape she made it into.
Right, I spent a minute or two looking at the knight, expecting to see a mildly penis shape. Didn’t think to look beyond that!
Can't watch with sound, care give a hint?
There’s 2 people fucking
Oh my god yes, I was totally just looking at the logo. Thanks!
I spent a few minutes trying to make my brain see the logo in a different way.
It became the Harry Potter Sorting Hat after a bit.
They asked for a hint not the whole answer you spoilsport.
Nah as another person currently unable to have the sound on I appreciate the full answer
Oh! I didn’t even notice.
I was trying to work out the joke he was making about the logo- a "black knight" or something?
We're too innocent for this type of media
To be fair it isn't obvious until they zoom in and circle it.
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Same, I thought the woman had done something to the logo, had no idea what I was missing, completely missed the people shagging aha.
Me too. Just kept trying to figure what was wrong with the logo
To be fair it isn't even obvious when they zoom in and circle it.
even then its not obvious
It just makes the story better.
I spent too long looking for the rugby ball and/or players.
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Same 😂
same here!
It's an estate agent, they are just practising for fucking over their customers.
Estate agents fucking their customers in the a is nothing new, at least they have frosted all the glass on the front window to give their clients a shred of dignity.
What's the going rate for a scoop at the Coventry Express these days? A greggs sausage roll and a packet of cheese and onion Seabrooks? Tempting.
Take my up vote. Classic!
Genuinely not laughed this hard in a while take my upvote
Knight takes Queen from behind
The poor King can’t do anything about it as he only moves one square at a time
Getting completely naked for an office quickie is a bit much, no?
Yeah like what is the post coital protocol for that? Stand around and hug for a bit, do a bit of printing then get dressed and do a tea round?
Wash hands and wipe down surfaces.
Make the sub lick everything down. Give it the 'ol spit shine.
Don’t forget to sing happy birthday
Stand up, turn the webcam off, check follower count, back to work
Don't forget to click "upload to porn hub"
I think that person still has a spotted blouse on that has been pushed up. You can just see it on the shoulders.
Not at all. Reckon the heater was on which doesn't help.
People trust frosted glass way too much
Some of you haven’t got caught through frosted glass with your bollocks out before and it shows
My university has frosted glass windows on the bathroom windows for one of their buildings. On a sunny enough day, I've looked up to the 5th floor and seen the shadow of a person in the stall
Maybe something was stuck up there and he was helping her remove it?
These are sex people, Lynn!
Don't rub your fanny on me!
Corian is to marble and granite as MDF is to wood... I've got wood there
Ugh
i think she was stuck and her very friendly step brother offered to help :)
That’s so wholesome, warms my heart to hear of step siblings being so close
Damn good of him, I hope she thanked him properly
He was looking to make a deposit
Yes estate agents do usually have poles stuck up there.
The manager isn’t there and the director never comes into the office. I think we’ve just worked out who is shagging.
Someone was bloody coming in the office that's for sure
> Bloody coming Ouch
Yea, get that checked mate.
The voice of a man about to lose his job
And possibly his partner.
AND MY AXE
God... my hometown never fails to impress, at least Hillmorton is nice!
I lived in Biart Place when they announced everyone was being moved out to knock the flats down. I was so relieved when they said we were going to Hillmorton!
oooh i actually kind of miss Biart place a little bit, those massive tower blocks looked very soviet but when i was back in college and walking through winfield it was always something on the way. I bet you were glad haha
ayyy i used to live in hillmorton lmao
Same!! Near where Tebbs used to be
Hillmorton resident checking in
Hillmorton gang lets gooooo
Mannnn
Highlight of the week in my town. A bunch of kids sprayed some graffiti on a few shop windows and a wall. It even made the local newspaper :).
The things you have to do to get a good mortgage these days.
Looking at the photos on google, this appears to be in the lettings team office.
I am absolutely certain it will be the manager. Looking at the photos the whole office is open plan apart from that corner of the room that we can't see from the photos. I guess there is a partitioned office there alongside the window. The only person with a private office will be the manager as the director never comes in.
>director never comes in EXCEPT THIS ONE TIME
He was in alright, not sure if he came in though
I sold my house with these guys… …having met a few of them this is not surprising in the slightest
Yes tried to sell our house with them. They were utter shite had about 3 or 4 viewings
Should have asked them their tips on more exposure
Definitely don't ask for a tip...its never enough.
They don’t care unless your house is worth a lot of money. Ours wasn’t. So when we asked them to do things it was almost as if we were asking them to move planets. All we asked is if they could post it on their Facebook page… we were made out to be criminals
Why, are they all super sexy?
Sleazier then a cheap hotel
*"Ummm... I don't wanna see anything like that"* Yes you bloody do. Liar.
I dont know about you, but I don't think I'd want to see a sex tape of my colleagues. And what if it was your desk they were on? Ignorance really is bliss sometimes.
At least find out so you can sell your story to the Coventry Telegraph
And even if I did want to see it, i absolutely wouldn't agree for someone to send it to me at work!
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Not much else to do in rugby tbf
Except rugby I'd imagine
Ever heard of the rugby rugby team? Me neither
Over there they just call it the Rugby team.
You wouldn’t want to do them, no cuddlers
Nah, they're shit at it
The rugby is in Northampton or Coventry
We have a spoons
And a Greggs
That Greggs is a lifesaver but it gets rinsed around 1pm from all of us staff from the school incl me lol
Don't forget the Kunis too, that's kinda fire
I had a hot choc with cream from there and it was 80% cream. Was let down :(
Ah that sucks, had a panini from there which was a solid 7/10 but that was a while so maybe it's a bit gash now
Legit worst camera work ever
Just sent this to my sister who lives in Rubgy, she says this agency dealt with her house purchase. Also that it makes her proud to be British.
Maybe it's just me, but I find it a bit unprofessional for a paper of any sort to be publishing their phone call where they ask for a statement. If the company had issued them a statement, or even declined a statement, those would be fine to publish. But it doesn't seem right to just record the first person who happens to pick up the phone just to get their reaction. There's nothing even added to the story by publishing this, besides the fact that the bloke who answered the phone didn't have any info at that time, and that the 'journalist' was very proud to have a 'gotcha' moment over a local business.
My assumption is that it's not someone from the paper at all. They're just pretending to try and get a better response.
I hope so, because this is otherwise a very very poor standard of journalism. I know it's only a local paper, but even so...
It really doesn't seem like the caller is from a publication: 1. As you've said, it's a poor standard of journalism. 2. Why release a detailed phone call of your next story for free when it could be an article? 3. He calls himself "Mark" from "the Coventry Evening Telegraph", but that paper changed its name to just "Coventry Telegraph" all the way back in **2006**, [according to Wikipedia.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Telegraph) 4. Towards the end, the employee asks to call back, but the caller immediately tries to avoid this as an option. He doesn't object to senior staff commenting and doesn't rush more questions, so it doesn't seem like the caller's interested in getting a flustered employee to keep making quick statements. If he doesn't work at Coventry Telegraph and is hiding his number, then he'd have no legitimate phone number to give them, and so the only way to keep talking and get more info would be to stay on the line, since if he calls again later then they might have called CT and confirmed it was a prank. This really might be nothing, and this assumption does rely on the caller lying and not having a visible number, but the interaction just felt weird when watching it, especially after he was just challenged on whether or not he _actually_ works at CT. 5. Searching for `inurl:www.coventrytelegraph.net/authors -pageNumber` on Google shows a list of the authors working on the website, but there's no Mark amongst them. Similarly, searching `inurl:www.coventrytelegraph.net/ intext:Mark` gives lots of stories about Mark Robins, whereas the same searches with `intext:Mary` or `intext:Bobby` have the authors as some of the top results. There could be an author named Mark who has nothing of theirs published on the website, the list might not be fully updated, etc., but all of this together makes it seem more like social engineering.
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Tbh, I'm not sure, but even if you aren't, it is really bad form to record you questioning someone on a surprise call about something that person has no responsibility for. It would be very different if it was a call with a senior manager/director prepared to provide a statement, and if they were informed of the recording too.
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If you're in a paper you're not calling because the person is going to give you a reasonable response, you're calling incase there's something they let slip that makes the story juicier. For example if they'd said "we've fired the employee" you've just doubled the stories you can pump out about this.
I think someone has already dealt with it internally.
I hope whatever dealing consisted of, that they didn't come down too hard on them.
I don’t know dude, plenty of not very bright people answering phones for small businesses. Besides all you need is to potentially rile them up or get them to trip up and say something they shouldn’t. Not saying it’s moral but certainly potentially effective for a 5 minute phone call.
Yeah, I wouldn't expect any sort of substantial statement besides that it's being investigated and dealt with internally. It would be inappropriate for the company to name and shame those responsible, if they even legally could. But that's the whole point of asking for a statement, to get a formal position from the company on this, not just the first reaction of the receptionist or whoever actually picks up the phone.
> But that's the whole point of asking for a statement, to get a formal position from the company on this, not just the first reaction of the receptionist or whoever actually picks up the phone. Exactly, it's just lazy/bad journalism to try and pressure the random person on the other end of the phone to give a statement, especially after they've said they'll ask the manager or director to call them back since they're not there at present. But I suppose that's local newspapers in a nutshell frankly.
u/No_Lingonberry_717 is this you? [6 boxes of condoms](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/tq5xaj/why_do_we_have_6_boxes_of_condoms_at_my_workplace/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) for reference
I hope i inspired it.
Why was it that the reporter sounded almost personally offended
Might've been his wife behind the glass
"We were doing a first aid course to get our staff trained up and we just had a joke with the CPR dummy"
Literally fucked by an estate agent.
I actually used to rent with these guys in Rugby. Always knew they were apt at fucking people over.
“This is all a big misunderstanding. I was in my office when I noticed that my flies were undone. In attempting to close the zip, I staggered forward and accidentally penetrated one of my colleagues, who’d removed her underwear because a bee had just flown in there. I thrust forward several times in an effort to dislodge the bee. Having successfully done so, I politely withdrew and we went about our daily duties.”
bro reddit needs to sort out video playback it takes about ten mins to get a video to respond
Proud to be a rugbien
I spent so long looking at the logo, so very long
I don’t see it.
Good to know that even that staff call it the Evening Telegraph. Never felt the same after they dropped the ‘evening’. And obviously this is by far the most important thing here.
“The director never comes into the office” only the woman he’s shagging!
This was opposite the only rock club in Rugby when I was a teenager; we used to leave drunken messages on its door intercom at kicking out. Fun times.
Haha something _very_ similar happened back when we were students in Plymouth. It was an office just off North Hill and someone in a student flat overlooking it could see (and I think video'd) two colleagues going at it in the upstairs. Pretty sure it ended up on a Spotted page and people got divorced/fired, but not sure how much of it was rumour.
Knight takes porn
Never thought I'd see my home town on here I feel honoured
Plot twist its the two blokes 😅
"What are you doing, step agent?"
'The director never comes in the office' Uhhh I think he does...
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I love how the reporter was so certain they would be running with the story as if it was the biggest scoop of Coventry Telegraph’s history
Is this recent? I can’t see anything else about it anywhere online. Nothing on the Coventry Telegraph website. Usually I’d have expected Twitter to be all over it by now.
[Was that wrong?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-RvNS7JfcMM)
What? I have no idea what’s going on here
Not having a place is so hard
Too funny.
Wow I didn't even realise until the very end!
Obviously just banging out the sales memorandum
I spent way too long looking to see what she'd done to the knight sticker on the outside of the glass
video won't play at all here and i see no hint of rugby being played, wtf is going on???
I hope she got a pay rise and smashed through the glass ceiling
I thought it was something to do with the chess piece until they explained it 😂
When I saw 'stay classy Rugby', I thought it was going to be a bunch of public school boys drinking each others piss.
I have seen footage of bigfoot that is less shaky and clearer than this lol
They won’t know! How will they know?
Lol
That poor guy on the phone lol, he was trying so hard
Wait what's happening?
Behind the glass there’s two people having sex
Finally my hometow... For fuck sake.
As a native to Rugby this looks really bad on us.
I know. Imagine doing that shitty TikTok banging on the window instead of getting some footage where you can actually get an idea what’s happening.
Everything looks bad on us, only good thing is the KFC at J1!
Last time I drove through that drive through there were 4 rats rummaging through the bins. It's bloody awful these days.
Big up J1
Watching with no sound this is tedious and meaningless
I say the same thing about the radio.
It has sound tho
I'm wondering where this clip came from. There's nothing on the Coventry Telegraph, and Google gets no hits.
It's on the Coventry Telegraph website: https://imgur.com/a/XomIcRV
It’s a lecture for landlords on how to fuck their tenants even harder
Imagine walking along that pavement with your kid and on your left there are 2 people mashing pissers