What's worse than a CS person from India on the phone?

[conny63malies]

I am German, have a German accent therefore. I call the bank center and a lady with a big fat Korean/Asian accent answers. I can barely understand her, so i ask if i could please get someone else. She gets an aditute and " Well i cant understand you either and have to deal with you" Geez lady if you work where you talk a lot, speak English without a foreign accent. I wouldnt dream of working as a CS.

 

[conny63malies]

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UGH another one of my favs. Try talking to one of those voice bots on the phone with the dog barking, the kids screaming and an german accent. Its a disaster.

 

[DuckLady]

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You mean like Sears?

 

[Boyd]

I love getting telemarketers from a foreign company that call my cell phone. I've done quite a few pranks, because although their technical English is good, they are behind with the slang. I know I shouldn't have so much fun on their behalf, but I can't help myself sometimes.

But if you ever get a call from Pak Fei (spelling?) wanting to sell you dish network stuff, ask him about his sister.

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

Ya know, we had this happen to use when we called Alltel customer service. My husband and I both have strong Southern drawls. Finally, he got frustrated and simply asked to speak to someone in America. The foreign guy said OK and that was that!

 

[Run-A-Muck Ranch]

Dell Computer, Sears, Alltell, Credit Card Companies....they all have 'over seas' customer service people.....

Drives me completely bonkers when having to talk to them.....


My favorite phone calls are the.............


ring, ring (phone ringing..lol )

answer the phone

I say 'Hello'

then on the other end....

I hear

an automated message that says..........................

"PLEASE HOLD FOR A VERY IMPORTANT...................:
(never heard the rest as I hang up...)

I mean really.....If you are calling me...............Don't have a message that says "please hold for a very important ANYTHING...."

We have an UNLISTED, UNPUBLISHED phone number...I pay extra each and every month on our phone bill just to have it not listed in the phone book, nor given out through information, along with NOT having it show up on caller id.....and my number still is out there....

 

[astylishgirl]

It is absolutely so frustrating when you have to deal with India. My daughters best friend is from India, so I alway try to be patient. And sometimes, they can actually help... once we get over the barrier of my southern drawl and their Indian accent. LOL

But when I hear the accent, it just ticks me off because I think of lost American jobs. I am big against exporting jobs. But I know it is not the person on the other ends fault and that they are glad that they have a job! So I do my best to work with them. I am not always successful!

I refuse to talk to a machine. Or all of those horrible options. If this... then press 1. blah blah blah. I just start pressing 0 until I get to a real person.

 

[Judy]

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Mine was also unlisted for many years. Had the same experience, plus they started charging to NOT list it (huh?) Finally got tired of it, canceled the unlisted number, and called the Do Not Call registry. I was better off, except....

I moved a couple of years ago. The person who used to have this number obviously owed money to a lot of people. It was a year and a half before her bill collectors stopped calling -- sometimes machines that I couldn't communicate with, as they OP described, or people whose accents I couldn't understand. Very often when I said that person didn't have this number any more, they would assume I was lying!

I don't try to talk with people whose accents I can't understand. I have a friend who grew up in India, speaking Hindi, so I have learned to understand that inflection pretty well, but the ones on the phone are still often impossible for me to understand.

Great info, English Chick!

 

[Chickenmaven]

I got a computer tech service rep (Indian, of course) who identified herself as "Pebbles." I could hardly contain myself.

When she was unable to help me fix my computer, she put me on with her supervisor.


His name was "Fred." I thought I was gonna wet myself.

I was waiting for "wilma" & "Barney" to get on the line.

 

[ChicknJ]

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I called my satellite server one day and got this

Hello, my name is Alirashmabibi but you can call me Bob. I almost peed myself over that one