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It’s getting worse if that were ever possible. Do real people exist? Am I the only one left? “Please hold; your time is important to us”…BULLSHIT. Hire some warm goddamn bodies with brains that can speak somewhat intelligle Engleesh. Yes by gum I’m a bigot agin machinations an phone picker-uppers in other nations. See I’ve gone bat shit carzy. —Z Nationalist
This article appears in Nov 6-12, 2014.
“THIS IS INDIA CALLING”
Yes, I know what you mean. It’s a sign of the times. On the other hand, it provides employment, of sorts, to those less privileged than us. Try speaking back in Bollywoodese.
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A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
I like when the guy in India tells you his name is Steve of Doug. Im like, nope, that is not your name. We can’t form a business relationship based on mistrust, ‘Doug’
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BMO?
Not to mention the automated systems that make you say what you want instead of pressing a number making you look like a tool and a half in public.
AllI want is a fucking account balance, arseholes.
Here’s a question: How does the use of an automated receptionist service relate to the “scam artists” category (link above bitch title)?
I got a call from Steve from India too. Told me he works for Microsoft and wanted to help me with a virus on my computer. I responded in three different languages, none of them English. Steve from India hung up on me and hasn’t called back since. How rude.
LOL OC. I once got a call from “Kirk” at Windows Security who told me there might be problem with my computer. My response was “You use words that are strange to me, Earthman called Kirk. What is this com-puter of which you speak” . I then went on to explain that there were no problems with my windows since there was only one hole in the walls of my wattle and daub hut, and that it was positioned to get the afternoon sun, and that I had flattened some beer cans to make a handy cover during monsoon season. He then asked me if I even had a computer and I explained that I wasn’t sure. I had a fire pit, a copper tureen for cooking, three wives, several goats and something on the wall that might have been a Vermeer but was probably just old cat vomit…AND HE HUNG UP ON ME!
Canyableevit?
Iv, I’m guessing these offshore phone jockeys aren’t Judith Martin fans.
It’s a “cultural” thing.
That’s one word for it. LOL
Most of the time I actually prefer automated service. Saves the trouble of explaining what you want to several different people after having been transferred and put on hold multiple times.
One company I had to deal with when I moved to Ontario and then off to Quebec was Cogeco. Their claim to fame is that when you call them “please hold” becomes “how can we help you” because they’re different and better then the rest. Well, the “how can we help you” is a pre-recorded message that brings you to an automated selection list. Too funny!
Now I’ll boast about Apple and their customer support. I bought a new iMac back in Feburary and had one small issue syncing my iPhone purchase history to iTunes. I got online and did the live chat. The girl on the other end who was in California said she wouldn’t be able to assist me further in solving the issue. So she ends up asking if I’d like Apple to call me. I typed yes and my phone rang about ten seconds later. I fuckin’ love Apple!!!
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You’re all fucking racists. The fact that a person has an accent doesn’t say shit about how well they speak English, or what country they’re even from. Let me tell you shits something: when my mother first came to Canada, the only job she could get was at a call centre. She was a doctor for 10 years back in Cuba, and the only job she could get was at a fucking call centre in Moncton, NB. And most of the people she worked with? Also immigrants. So there goes your fucking “India” complaint.
Now, we’ve been living in Canada for 14 years. She managed to save enough money to take all the tests the government asks immigrant doctors to take which cost thousands of dollars EACH, (which, you know what, I totally am for them 100%. We need to ensure that our doctors know their shit before they’re out there cutting into people. But really? Complaining about a doctors’ shortage while charging immigrants $2500+ to take ONE of the numerous tests required to be certified? Like, how does that make any sense???) all while working shit jobs at fast food restaurants and yes, at call centres HERE in Canada. She’s done her residency all over again, she’s graduated from Dalhousie medical school, she’s been an Canadian-certified anesthesiologist for 5 years now, working as the head of her department a hospital. And still people like you think she doesn’t have a brain just because she speaks with an accent. Her English is 100% fucking “intelligle” (gotta love that irony, btw), but fucking Wanda the middle aged Walmart casheer still thinks she gets to look down her nose at this college graduate because she says some words a bit differently.
We live in a beautiful, diverse country. Not all Canadians speak the same. Some Canadians have accents. Get the fuck over it. “Steve from India” could very fucking well be living in Toronto for all you know. So fuck all of you for hearing his accent and assuming you know shit about where he lives.
Oh, and btw, what do telephone scammers even have to do with call centres??? You people do know they’re two different things, right?
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: Steve (11/12, 9:13PM)
“Let me tell you shits something: when my mother came to Canada the only job she could get was at a call centre. She was a doctor for 10 years back in Cuba and the only job she could get was at a fucking call center in Moncton, NB.”
That’s right Steve, they’re all doctors, everyone of them. And those who aren’t doctors are Ph.D.s and all they can do is drive cabs in Moncton as well. But it makes you wonder, Steve. If they were all doctors and Ph.D.s, why did they come in the first place? I bet it was because they all loved freedom. Am I right Steve? Or is it Doug?
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
A bit late on the reply, but yes, montrealman, we did come here because we love the freedom. Have you ever lived in Cuba? It’s not exactly all rainbows and democracy, you know… Also, the monthly salary for an anesthesiologist back then? Twenty-five USD. For a MONTH’S worth of work, as a doctor. So yeah, those cabbies and call center workers make more money here in Canada than they do working as doctors and physicists back in their home countries. It’s almost as if third world countries don’t have as much money as first world countries. I know, WILD idea, isn’t it?
MM is dead, BEY. Fucking dead!!!