Thst's why I'm with Cox cable internet. At most times of t he day, the call
center is within a few miles of my home.
Bill pearce
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From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:03 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Semi-incommunicado
> Gotta love the way a simple message here morphs into a lengthy,
> divergent thread. I had Carol read it, to get more idea of what this
> group is like. She quite enjoyed it.
>
> On 2/12/2010 7:32 PM, John Hudson wrote:
>> And what would be wrong with a well educated Indian gentle person manning
>> the telephone ?
>>
>
> Nothing at all, except ...
>
> On 2/12/2010 8:14 PM, Chris Crawford wrote:
>> Because they often speak poor English and are difficult to communicate
>> with. My hearing is poor and I simply cannot understand them.
>
> My hearing is pretty good, and I still have trouble understanding some
> of them.
>
> On 2/12/2010 8:14 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
>> The problem is not that they're Indian but that they're in India,
>
> Indeed, the thing I've noticed is that they believe they speak excellent
> English. And that's probably true - where they live. I'm sure they and
> their acquaintances can carry on lengthy, complex conversations amongst
> themselves. So they can't really understand how difficult to understand
> they are to many other English speakers. If they did, they might speak
> more slowly and carefully.
>
> Then again, we aren't conversing about the weather, but about sometimes
> arcane technical problems, where clear understanding even with native
> USian speakers is sometimes difficult.
>
>>
>> don't really understand what your problem is and have no way of fixing it
>> apart from passing on a message (hopefully).
>
> Unfair to some of them, in my limited ( and happily so) experience.
>
>> I am assuming here that your call centres have also been outsourced to
>> the subcontinent and that sweetly semi-comprehensible people keep ringing
>> you in the evening to suggest that you change your phone service
>> provider...
>
> Not so here. I assume it's the US govt Do Not Call list and caller ID.
> We get many fewer solicitation calls than before the DNCL and ignore
> those obvilusly from telemarketers.
>
> Moose
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