[Total hijack]fessie, I lost your email addy. Can you email me?[/TH}
“Vivian” and “Bert”. Can I place you on hold?
It turns out that the Indians are paying for the opportunity to answer phones. From your end, it’s a terminally frustrating customer service experience; from their end, it’s an endless stream of people willing to help them practice conversational English in the hopes of getting to work for Dell. Can I place you on hold?
Lousy subcontinent, with their mountains and their jungles and their funny religions and their “I walked across the whole thing just for salt and world peace” and their people answering phones… hang on, can I place you on hold?
The other day, I got a clearly India-outsourced call, from a guy named “Pablo.”
hahaha!!! this one really cracked me up! … sigh… I need a hobby!
Goa now too!