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

[ems_chick]

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did you try hitting zero? ive found that works wonders most of the times

 

[verity]

I have an entirely different 'take' on dealing with Indian service people since I saw the indie movie, 'Outsourced' -- it is a great movie and I recommend it to everyone ---
get if from Netflix --

 

[WriterofWords]

I had this happen to me today and spent over an hour on the phone trying to straighten out a mistake made on my truck financing. I finally asked for someone who spoke better English, and was asked if I wanted someone in the US, I said yes,,, lo and behold, I was transferred to someone who spoke my language,,,, but was more of an idiot and I asked for the foreign guy back,, The morone said "What? Why do you want someone in another county?" I hung up on him.

 

[LilPeeps]

I really hate calling the Bank of America number. All you want to do is find out when the bank is open until and no matter what you do, you can't get to the branch you're looking for and there's no way to speak to an operator. What's worse is paying that $1.25 for 411 to get the Bank of America number at your local branch and they send you back to the automated thing, ughhhhh

 

[gypsy2621]

I hate getting people in India answering a phone,
I have a problem hearing correctly and accents make the ear drum vibrate funny, so certain tones and sounds are totally lost.
I have the same problem with watching TV, one reason I am on line more and more.
I may not be always able to understand what I hear but I certainly can understand what is written.

One good way to frustrate them is to have to keep saying , Huh? What? can you repeat that? I can't hear you can you speak up, Can you speak a bit more clearly?
I pretty much have given up answering the phone ( when I had a normal number) went to a Magic Jack and eliminated most all hearing issues.
I haven't given the number out but to the few people I know I can understand.