I did say “more shit”. I know there’s discrimination against southerners in the north.
But… Bad coworkers to notice the accent and not the content of what someone says.
Of course it doesn’t. Just because you can’t understand someone doesn’t mean they’re stupid.
And just because I don’t like talking to someone I can’t understand doesn’t make me a bigot.
If only you had said that instead of what you actually said. You keep saying the silent part out loud.
This you?
and this?
These are painfully easy to find, but jesus fucking christ you’re really an asshole in this one. What the fuck is the matter with you.
Not I’m sorry, not a denial, not an explanation, not an excuse, just ‘what are you going to do about it’.
I’ll bet he never says that to anyone capable of “doing something about it.” Or without backup.
He’s the asshole in every one.
His problem appears to be that he’s an asshole and proud of it.
And everyone else’s problem is that he has a gun and is paid by the government to enforce the laws that he feels like enforcing.
I wonder how many people he has converted to ACAB after an encounter with him.
Not an unusual thing to see this quote on the Dope, but I’m reminded of it again:
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
–Frank Wilhoit
I rarely hear Indian-ish accents at call centers anymore. Nowadays it’s almost always an accent I can’t place, but it might be Malaysian? I don’t find the agents hard to understand with either accent, as they’ve been familiar for a long time now. What I hate is when they have to keep repeating what you said back to you and thanking you for your patience after every response and then waiting for you to acknowledge it. What should have been a 3 minute phone call turns into a half hour of meaningless drivel.
And pkbites is a jerk.
I do. And not only are they hard to understand, they seem incapable of being able to resolve the problem.
But that’s not the Indian workers’ fault, it’s Cox Cable’s. They don’t give the call center people the tools they need.
In my work, I deal with a lot of foreign customers, and while sometimes it is difficult to communicate, I have to note that their English is better than my Korean, Hindi, Farsi, Dutch, Arabic,…whatever.
I read someplace that a lot of call centers are in the Philippines now. Supposedly the accents are closer to standard American English. And I remember a story on This American Life about call centers in Mexico staffed by people who were deported from the US but speak American-accented English.
My weirdest call-center accent story is when I used to have a Blackberry. Their call center was somewhere in Southeast Asia, I think China, or maybe Vietnam. But they’d trained the workers to speak with a Canadian accent. And mostly, they did. There were just a few weird tells that they were Asian.
(they were easy to understand, and reasonably competent. They just had slightly odd grammar, and I spent enough time on the phone with them to be curious.)
It’s not just accent, it’s also things like word-order and other bits of grammar. I used to work in an office with people from all over, and yeah, the two from the Philippines were very easy to talk to. Their syntax is nearly identical to American syntax, and their accent is not wholely different from an American accent.
In general, I found it easier to talk with co-workers whose native language was indo-european, as then I only had to understand the words to understand what they wanted to say. We had one guy from China whose accent wasn’t terrible, in terms of producing English sounds, but his word order was VERY different, and even if I understood every word he said, I sometimes had to ask him several clarifying questions.
Yeah, it’s tough trying to understand a native Latin speaker.
Yeah, been waiting 20 years for that one to come back.
All but one of them were not “me” but someone in my house hold posting on my account. I got a shit ton of problems for it, threatening emails, even problems on other sites like opencarry.com. It took a long time for that shit to die down. There’s a couple other threads that person posted on I’d sooner disappear.
I did post the “what are you going to do about it” quote. If you’re going to hate on me, at least hate on me for what I, Peter Beitz, actually posted.
And make sure you sign out of your account when your finished in these boards.
Let me guess – some of your best friends are Indian, amirite? 
Because some of your previous comments on the subject – conveniently quoted in the post right after yours – seem to contradict your professed affection for the people of India. This gem is of particular note:
For a guy that sounded exactly like Apu from the Simpsons this guy got pretty pissy.
Oh for fuck’s sake.
What a sad and pathetic excuse. Very Trumpian of you. Bumpity bump, toss another one under the bus.
Next time, try “I didn’t even know who posted that on my account. Maybe they brought me coffee one time.”
Does that excuse work on you, when you pull someone over and there’s coke in the center console? “I swear officer, someone else was driving my car!”
And I’m sure that part of the process of making “that shit die down” was you posting a thread here and the other sites it happened at, telling everyone what happened. Right?
Mostly just let it die and ignored the threatening emails.