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Anyone else find that phone solicitors and service desks are now unintelligible foreigners barely able to speak English?
self | March 19, 2024 | fwdude

Posted on 03/19/2024 9:38:32 AM PDT by fwdude

Almost NO ONE who now calls me is a native English speaker, and has NO phone skills. Low volume, sloppy script, and no supervisor who can relay and intelligible message. The same goes for service desks.

When I get a professional, AMERICAN English speaker, it just makes my day.


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To: fwdude

“When I get a professional, AMERICAN English speaker, it just makes my day.”

No kidding. CapitalOne Bank and T-Mobile have both been great because their service desk people are AMERICANSs. But I have seen the rapid change-out with other companies where one day you got an American and the next you got a person in SE Asia.

One thing I DO notice is how genuinely kind the people in SE Asia are on the phone and deferential to the customer. While they can sometimes be hard to understand, I like that attitude.

When I was working in the fiber optic communications industry, little did I think that our tech would enable this global transformation in customer support and service.

I like to ask where they are located. I get a lot in the Philippines, a lot in Costa Rica. I recently got a really nice guy in Jamaica which was a first. And I got an outbound sales guy in Israel a couple weeks ago. I told him how appalled we are at the murderous invasion by Hamas and how hopeful we are that Hamas is completely annihilated. He really appreciated that.

I used to get support from US company help desks in Post Falls, ID, but those seem to have disappeared.


21 posted on 03/19/2024 9:53:53 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: fwdude

I once asked this customer service guy where he actually located and what his name was. He said Peter Parker. I then said Spiderman! He later admitted his name was Sanamjeet and was based in Mumbai.


22 posted on 03/19/2024 9:55:49 AM PDT by 38special (I should've said something earlier)
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To: fwdude

I get tons of those calls every day where I work. A lot of them come come from off shore sweat shops made up of exploited labor, indentured servants, debtors, and those who have no means of support. To coin a well known phrase: “Ask not for whom the ringtone tolls; it tolls for thee.” Take heed.


23 posted on 03/19/2024 9:57:37 AM PDT by The_Harlequin (…the time will arrive when you will learn to judge for yourself of what is going on in the world, wi)
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To: fwdude

Several years before I retired, the company started using Indians for computer help lines. Some had such thick accents that I couldn’t understand them, and it was a problem until I learned a trick for that. Instead of 1 for English, I’d press 2 for Spanish, then when someone answered, I’d say I had hit the wrong button by mistake. An American English-speaker would then come on the line and take care of whatever I was calling about. Worked every time.


24 posted on 03/19/2024 9:57:51 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: dforest
I've done that.

My biggest "hate" is waiting for the next operator..."Your call is important to us"....and 3 minutes later....and 3 minutes later....and 3 minutes later....

GRrrrr...like yourself...I finally hang up...to fight another day.

25 posted on 03/19/2024 9:58:25 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: fwdude

Quit answering your phone. Let it go to voicemail


26 posted on 03/19/2024 10:00:24 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: fwdude

Been that way for years. Just say you want an English speaking American.. that pisses them off.


27 posted on 03/19/2024 10:01:08 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: fwdude
Yeah, and every TV commercial shows only black people, or white woman/black man couples, and the only white men you see are almost always idiots.

Welcome to 2024.

28 posted on 03/19/2024 10:03:34 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: fwdude

When I was working (retired now) I would recommend or throw the contract to the company where a human answered the phone instead of a computer.

All it takes is having to wade through the computer mess once to make up the price difference, if there was one.


29 posted on 03/19/2024 10:04:11 AM PDT by dagunk
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To: Sacajaweau

The only one I become a demon with is Xfinity. Those people turn me into a rage.

LOL and they deserve it.


30 posted on 03/19/2024 10:04:20 AM PDT by dforest
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To: fwdude

I like it. Much easier to sort out these days.


31 posted on 03/19/2024 10:04:36 AM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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To: fwdude

I listened White House press briefing yesterday and felt the same way.


32 posted on 03/19/2024 10:08:02 AM PDT by BamaBelle
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To: fwdude

Finding out just now?!!! Crap, that’s been going on for YEARS!


33 posted on 03/19/2024 10:17:56 AM PDT by technically right
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Sounds like scam calls. If you get a call from someone with a thick Hindi accent and a name like Robert Wilson... beware.


34 posted on 03/19/2024 10:31:45 AM PDT by Ken H (Trump 2024)
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To: maddog55
Just say you want an English speaking American. that pisses them off.

That it does. They said "No" to the question! It was Morgan Chase in the credit card verification process dept of all places in the fraud dept. Had to keep calling back until I got one that was a little more intelligible.

35 posted on 03/19/2024 10:33:00 AM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: fwdude

Yes to not understanding them.


36 posted on 03/19/2024 10:37:27 AM PDT by Freeper (My authority? I can read, do logic and math plus words have meanings!)
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To: fwdude

Many years ago.

Phone companies are especially terrible. If you are calling about a hotspot rather than a phone, you have to go through a maze of operators none of whom is an American or a native speaker.

I also remember ATT adding a $3 surcharge to a third party for paying the bill by phone. They were literally the phone company, but couldn’t figure out how to get their bills paid without that.


37 posted on 03/19/2024 10:41:19 AM PDT by x
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To: fwdude

I’ve had great service from Filipino people

India, I have no idea what they are saying...


38 posted on 03/19/2024 10:42:39 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Sacajaweau

They won’t tell you where they are located at least the Indians I talk to the feather kind.


39 posted on 03/19/2024 10:47:35 AM PDT by Rappini ("No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in it's preservation" MacArthr)
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My mistake it was the Dot kind sorry.


40 posted on 03/19/2024 10:50:49 AM PDT by Rappini ("No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in it's preservation" MacArthr)
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