To: BillyJack
"English-speaking workforce"That's the key words. As long as I can understand them on the phone, I don't give a crap what country they are in...
4 posted on
01/05/2004 8:54:45 PM PST by
Texaggie79
(Did I just say that?)
To: Texaggie79
"The shift of North American technology jobs to low wage countries like India cannot be stopped because not only are Indian companies a third of the cost, but they actually are better," said Pradeep Sood, president of Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce.I take the source with a grain of salt, but I had dinner with a couple of Indian engineers a few nights ago. These guys are brilliant, personable, and have a great work ethic. I'd say that 6 million jobs going to India may be a conservative estimate....
6 posted on
01/05/2004 8:58:51 PM PST by
freebilly
To: Texaggie79
"As long as I can understand them on the phone, I don't give a crap what country they are in..."As many of us can attest to, understanding most federal workers babble in Washington DC can be quite a challenge.
Our barely-articulate New Jersey state government "workers" here in Trenton may as well be foreign nationals for all their communication skills.
To: Texaggie79
That's the key words. As long as I can understand them on the phone, I don't give a crap what country they are in... A good chunk of them are in this country, taking jobs away from your neighbors.
But then again, we do live in a world economy........
To: Texaggie79
I've called India a few times. Accomplishing what you say is a crap shoot.
To: Texaggie79
The thing is, usually you can't. And if you can, often the service is terrible. How many times have you called computer techs and not been able to understand a word they say?
I have been having really bad problems with DirectTV this year. I have been on the phone with them at LEAST 15 times with them the past two months. Nothing I ever say ever gets entered into the computer.
After 3 missed appointments ("We have no record of that appointment in the computer") I finally called up and just cut off my service last month, and guess what? I got a bill for this month.
Someone told me that DirectTV has outsourced their customer service to India. I don't know if that's true, but I would love to find out. It would explain a lot.
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