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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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KEYWORDS: phone; stupidvanity; vanity
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Doesn't matter the industry or location, I guess these companies all farm out their phone desks to India or SE Asia. It's is absolutely maddening.
1 posted on 03/19/2024 9:38:32 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: fwdude

I now ask....where are you...


2 posted on 03/19/2024 9:39:18 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Texas.


3 posted on 03/19/2024 9:39:36 AM PDT by fwdude (.When unarmed Americans are locked up for protesting a stolen election, you know it was stolen.)
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To: fwdude

Racist. :)


4 posted on 03/19/2024 9:39:57 AM PDT by dljordan
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To: dljordan

Yeah, I know. And proud of it.


5 posted on 03/19/2024 9:40:14 AM PDT by fwdude (.When unarmed Americans are locked up for protesting a stolen election, you know it was stolen.)
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Most customer services reps i find to be ignorant AA hires.


6 posted on 03/19/2024 9:40:43 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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Most customer services reps i find to be ignorant AA hires.

Yeah, that too, and they don't speak standard English.

7 posted on 03/19/2024 9:42:51 AM PDT by fwdude (.When unarmed Americans are locked up for protesting a stolen election, you know it was stolen.)
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To: fwdude

Press one for English..................


8 posted on 03/19/2024 9:43:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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9 posted on 03/19/2024 9:44:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Sacajaweau

There are some I just tell that I cannot understand their accent and I hang up.


10 posted on 03/19/2024 9:44:40 AM PDT by dforest
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Press one for English..................

And then you don't even get English.

11 posted on 03/19/2024 9:44:46 AM PDT by fwdude (.When unarmed Americans are locked up for protesting a stolen election, you know it was stolen.)
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To: fwdude

You get Pidgin......................


12 posted on 03/19/2024 9:45:28 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: fwdude

My employer has a technical help number. Everyone is American, English as a first language type. The ones I know well are very conservative too, in a deep blue area.


13 posted on 03/19/2024 9:47:24 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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Yeah. It’s all part of rending the fabric of our culture. Some people think that, because this is America, things will take care of themselves and they don’t have to do anything. That’s called apathy. And, when the shiite, finally, hits the fan it’ll be too late!


14 posted on 03/19/2024 9:49:20 AM PDT by old school
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“ignorant AA hires”

Their syntax is wackadoodle—gives them away every time.


15 posted on 03/19/2024 9:49:33 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: cyclotic

Yes, I have to hand it to Patriot Mobile. I ALWAYS get a friendly, well-spoken home-grown service rep on the phone. And they are almost always knowledgeable on what I’m calling about.


16 posted on 03/19/2024 9:50:58 AM PDT by fwdude (.When unarmed Americans are locked up for protesting a stolen election, you know it was stolen.)
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Yeah. In the past couple of years, I haven’t been able to reach a competent English speaking person at the phone company, my dental insurance company, and even lately my doctor’s office.


17 posted on 03/19/2024 9:52:03 AM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
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I live Wisconsin corn country. About a third of local TV commercials are in Spanish. ??


18 posted on 03/19/2024 9:52:29 AM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda.)
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To: CFW

Insane, isn’t it?


19 posted on 03/19/2024 9:52:33 AM PDT by fwdude (.When unarmed Americans are locked up for protesting a stolen election, you know it was stolen.)
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To: fwdude

I expect almost all Help Lines to be AI very soon.


20 posted on 03/19/2024 9:53:40 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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