Bring back American jobs.
We have sent American jobs to other countries now, for an entire generation.
Stop that. Bring back American jobs.
Good luck.
Start with your internet provider.
Boycott...everyone?
How about the ‘weeners, such as Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. It is hardly a third world hell-hole, and those folks have been doing it for generations now (they are often bi-lingual as well).
I support capitalism. It is a company’s fiduciary responsibility to find ways to maximize profit. If unions, healthcare laws, and minimum wage laws make it financially irresponsible to staff call centers in the U.S., then they should offshore these jobs.
Better idea: boycott liberal job-killing policies.
you might have to change your insurance company then too...I’m with you. That’s one of the reasons I quit dealing with Dell years ago. I either would get “Steve” in New Delhi, or some gal in Viet Nam that I could only make out about every eighth word from.
Screw the multinational conglomerates who got their starts in this country and now could care less about the U.S. or its people (just its money).
This is a great idea. While we’re central planning the economy, do you have any other ideas on what to force upon American businesses? We can put together all our best ideas on how to improve the national economy and commit to implementing them over a reasonable period of time. We’ll call it a “Five Year Plan”.
how do you boycott your health care provider and company benefits center.Just to name a few.
Ridiculous.
I’ve spoken to the American call center reps and they are as worse than the ones from India.
I have an unrequited love affair with Diane from Adelaide, who has pulled my cyber-beans from the fire more than once. She's probably a 60-year-old grandmother in reality, but to me she's a 6-foot beach babe in a bikini with a 200 IQ. What is that language she's speaking, though?
If I pick up the phone and there’s some stuttering ‘Delhi clerk’ on the other end, I just hang up.
There is a lot of understandable frustration and American pride evidenced in the comments thus far. There has also been some abysmal ignorance shown and illogical statements made.
I once visited half a dozen Indian companies looking for a suitable partner in an offshore project with the American company which employed me. Our NY headquarters were going to move ALL of our jobs to Mexico as a “cost cutting measure”. My department developed a solution that retained our US employees and increased productivity by utilizing an Indian data services company.
A couple of the Indian companies I investigated also provided call center services for US clients. The best of these were like a very enthusiastic, hard studying college campus. Very impressive! The company we settled on was more software development oriented. Extremely competent people. I probably was not qualified to work there.
Patriotic Americans need to realize that in terms of cost, effort applied and productivity, American labor currently is not competitive on a global scale. Part of the problem is the accretion of government regulations that require American business to spend more in satisfying government paperwork then on productivity.
Part of the problem is in the union inspired attitude of “I deserve a paycheck which is independent of my value to the company or the customer”.
If you are connected to a call center representative who is unintelligible or ignorant, then by all means, go to another company to buy your item next time. Yes, it is frustrating to get someone who is reading from a script, does not understand your problem and is unable to help you. However, have you ever dealt with a US, in-store tech rep whose solution to ALL computer problems was “Format the hard drive and reinstall the OS and all programs.” Especially when the idiot did it without asking you first.
Competence costs money. US computer competence costs 3 to 10 times the equivalent Indian computer competence. Yes, sometimes the accents are terrible. Many American also have serious difficulty understanding regional accents different than their own. And then there is Ebonics...
We would like to demand Made in The USA on all products... except when they are “sophisticated European (perfume, sports cars, suits, leather goods, etc)” or fruits and vegetables that are either out of season or just don’t grow in the USA. Then we can relax our patriotism a bit.
We need to force the politicians to cut away the piles of idiotic EPA, OSHA, FDA, ADA, EEOC, etc. regulation that impede American business. We need to knock American labor leaders up side of the head with a 2x4, get their attention and get them to cooperate with business to make “Made in America” become the symbol of quality and value to all customers: American, German, Japanese, Chinese, Indonesian, Swedish...
Forget the crabs-in-a-bucket mentality of class warfare trumpeted by the Socialist, communists, labor unions, Democrats, media, Hollywood, liberal academia. Let’s build better products & give better service, then watch the customers come to our door.
Multi-national corporations don’t care about Americans, they care about profit and money. This is the economic system ‘we’ have chosen.
You must want to go naked and starve to death!