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Dear God no... they switched to Indian customer support...
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Ninja Scooter
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THANK YOU COME AGAIN!
MrAngryFace
Banned
Work switched to that too, which is a bitch.
"Hello?"
"Jellow Please Tell Me Nam"
"Ryan Thompson"
"TRHO...?"
"umm no"
"What is language...i mean..prooblem with u?"
"jesus fuck, umm computer is down, cant access our network"
"oowobeeeoooop chitka tookie taka."
"arhghghg"
"Hello?"
"Jellow Please Tell Me Nam"
"Ryan Thompson"
"TRHO...?"
"umm no"
"What is language...i mean..prooblem with u?"
"jesus fuck, umm computer is down, cant access our network"
"oowobeeeoooop chitka tookie taka."
"arhghghg"
Dark Kinght Bunny
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hehehe...i learned never to call around winter, they start asking bout the snow and christmas crap.
Black Deatha
Member
Thank god Im not the only one, I am not a prejeduce person at all, but I HATE that! Everywhere I call it seems I get some moron who cant talk!
~Black Deatha
~Black Deatha
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
MrAngryFace said:
It's even funnier when you pretend that it's Apu speaking.
Ned Flanders
Banned
"Thanks for calling the Amazon customer support line. HOW may I help you?"
Seriously though, if only we'd have given Pakistan the ok, we wouldn't be facing this massive job loss. A nice tac-nuke round about New Dehli or Calcutta and there would be no nickel-an-hour alternative English-speaking workforce. Another bad move on the part of the president..
ManDudeChild
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Raxel said:
You might want to take note of the wink.
={<SMOKE>}=
Member
i use to work customer service for earthlink. it sucked. as far as i'm concerned, they can have those jobs. and to think those poor bastards are making even less than i was to put up with bullshit for 8-10 hours a day...
on a more serious note, i'm not too worried about outsourcing to be honest (and i'm a computer science major). there's a reason that labors cheaper and when it comes down to it, american companies are going to want/need americans to perform the majority of i/t related tasks.
if i'm supervising the set-up of a new network/database for my company, i'm gonna feel better about having john, bill, and the gang working on-site than i will about having apu and tjenderpal doing the job halfway around the world...
in the end, companies will determine that the savings are outweighed by the problems... nothing more than a "fad".
**goes to make some freedom fries**
on a more serious note, i'm not too worried about outsourcing to be honest (and i'm a computer science major). there's a reason that labors cheaper and when it comes down to it, american companies are going to want/need americans to perform the majority of i/t related tasks.
if i'm supervising the set-up of a new network/database for my company, i'm gonna feel better about having john, bill, and the gang working on-site than i will about having apu and tjenderpal doing the job halfway around the world...
in the end, companies will determine that the savings are outweighed by the problems... nothing more than a "fad".
**goes to make some freedom fries**
I've never had a problem with Indian reps not speaking proper English when a bunch of UK companies switched to Indian customer support a while back. What DID bug me was when Directory Enquiries switched to Indian operators. This was annoying because they'd ask WHERE the company you're trying to find was, and they'd need an exact location... and if you didn't have one, unlike with Brits familiar with the territory they can't really help you out.
={<SMOKE>}= said:
I'd like to think this but I get the feeling that it's going to be easier for companies to put more money into the problem over there than it will be to move it all back over here. Sure, there are problems at the moment but those problems can be worked around and if it's going to work out cheaper for them in the long run, they'll continue fixing the problems rather than give up...
Raxel said:
Not to have a go at you... just some general ramblings of mine...
I'm torn on this issue... I do think that if other markets can offer services at competetive rates, then that's OK but what's happening in cases like this is that technology is being used to exploit people. Is the job market out there going to be sustainable? Are these job markets going to be involved in a "race to the bottom" (i.e. costs like wages driven down by competing companies and countries and eventually workers over there lose out?)?
And what jobs are safe these days? I caught an article last week that described how Reuters was outsourcing some of its journalism. I know people are supposed to adapt but really, what if there are only a handful of types of jobs that people know can't be moved abroad and a lot of people just aren't good at them? Not to mention the competition involved if there are only, say, 5 types of profession? Probably a bit more pessimistic than necessary just now but still, that's how I am
Ned Flanders
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Raxel said:
What a pussy. People are going around posting "zombie superman" pics in Christopher Reeve threads, but some tongue-in-cheek sarcasm about a hypothetical situation (aka it hasn't, and may never, happen) wads your panties?? Are you from India?
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