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I like to imagine this is the person I’m talking to when I call customer service.
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To/Too…sigh.
I always get “Adam” from “Nebraska”, who does a pretty darn good imitation of Apu from the Simpsons.
You know the economy is screwed when you’re talking to Amajit in Mumbai who sounds like Adam from Nebraska…
At least they know what’s wrong with my computer. We can’t even spell!
To/Too…sigh.
That annoys me two! People who can’t get it right are such loosers…
Two funny, Danbala!
Ur comments -they be hurtin ma brain…
You guys are to hilarious! I agree, two.
Their is nothing worse than getting two/to/too wrong.
Your absolutely right!
I no. I love it when I’m write.
I think I might have red that wrong.
I could of sworn you got it rite.
Well you should of said something! Your not being vary helpful.
They’re are alot of bad grammar on the internet.
You more then others should know it’s limitations.
Two true, my deer pittypat.
Good bliss Spill Chick!
Awsome! Please except an internet!
I no, that was hte awesum.
Truth.
Oh look! Another bad lol. Isn’t that a surprise.
Stop saying “lol” when referring to pictures with captions. LOL stands for “Laugh Out Loud” while you clearly mean the opposite.
It’s common enough shorthand here, Grammar Nazi.
I’m pretty sure they meant it as a joke and not a comment on grammar…
You predict Lottery numbers as well as read minds?
*sigh* Well, except for the fact that this site is a spin off of ICHC which specialized in lol cats, and internet accepted term.
No! Stop saying saying “sigh” when referring to captions!
Everyone knows that SIGH means to “Breathe Out Loud” while you clearly mean, um, let’s see now, where was I going with this?
I believe you were headed in the direction where you proclaim me Queen of Teh Interwebz. *awaits crown and scepter*
Oh yes in matters internet and troll-catch net and green tea set,
she is the very model of a modern major-majorette!
*elbows PittyPat to remind her of the crown and sceptor*
Wha – wha – oh, rats, I fell asleep your highness!
*genuflects and presents crown and, and, uh –*
oh rats where’d I put that silly scepter?
Aww, Geez! You *really* need to keep up with such things. The last time I saw you with it, you were using it to reach the spaghetti pot on top of the refrigerator…
or maybe it was the time you dropped the remote behind the couch…
No, wait. When did you have that hair clog in the bathroom sink?
Never mind. I have an Eddie P. Scetti Original Troll Wacker. I’ll just accept the crown for now.
Why would you be talking to a Chinese opera singer? I’m sure she has better things to do with her time than deal with racist pricks.
Because Peking Opera has intermissions… it’s quite common for people in China to have several jobs… you saying that an Opera played can’t give good tech support, you elitist?
Unless they take their intermissions in Bangalore, this LOL makes no sense
Obviously you haven’t heard, but Indian outsourcing companies are re-outsourcing to China and other, cheaper countries now. That tech support package you bought from Bangalore may be handled by an agency in Tibet these days. Or considering the times, they may be re-outsourcing right back to some company in the US, who knows? They could be In-n-Outsourcing.
That is a man.
Quite possible. I didn’t want to shatter their left wing bull that we were insulting an ethnic woman, rather than a possible man…
I’ve finally found an answer besides “A miserable pile of secrets.” Have at thee!
This looks like something that belongs in Post Secret.
Why yes, yes it does, actually…!!!
This is just sort of offensive.
…the grammar fail, not the obvious racism.
Is it actually racist when, tbh, 60% of call centres are off shored to India, near Eastern Europe, and China?
Even assuming you had a citation for that 60% number you pulled out of your ass, the answer is “yes”.
Market studies estimate the Indian KPO sector to notch up 71 percent of the global KPO share, with revenues of USD 12 billion, by 2010.
KPO = Knowledge Process Outsourcing
[LINK] Full text
Prove I pulled it out of my Ass, care troll…
PK ate my linked post, but here is aquote:
Market studies estimate the Indian KPO sector to notch up 71 percent of the global KPO share, with revenues of USD 12 billion, by 2010.
The source is iwebhelpdesk.com.
KPO = Knowledge Process Outsourcing
Not all jokes mentioning race, ethnicity and/or nationality are bigoted. From the context, the author is indicating that the woman is desirable.
Care troll cares misdirectedly.
But, yes: The “too” fail calls for the author to be beaten with a seventh-grade grammar text.
Perhaps they recently had a frustrating tech call? In which case what they should have said was, “TOO SOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!!ELEVENTY11!”
LOL! My most recent call to India was a pleasant one, but took two hours. Since then, I realized why the guy was so patient: India is having trouble with SOFC (solved on first call) stats. On average, a call to an Indian help desk costs $6, whereas a call to a U.S. help desk costs $8. Trouble is, Indian helpdesks have a lower SOFC ratio, so they are actually more expensive than “home” help desks, in the long run.
I had wondered why the guy was so thoroughly patient with me. The SOFC issue was covered in the questionnaire, but so was the time spent. Still, the stats indicate that outsourcing tech support overseas is on the rise.
Reminds me of a joke:
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Mujibar is at the end of his attempt to immigrate when the immigration officer says, “Mujibar, in order to complete your application you will need to make a sentence using the words green, pink, and yellow”. Mujibar thinks about it for a bit and finally says, “Ok, I think I have one. The phone goes green, green, green, I pink it up and say ‘yellow, this is Mujibar.’” He now works for AT&T.
LOL! Extra credit: “…then I solve purple’s problems.”
You can? Thanks, though I’m kinda pissed you held out on me so long TBH
I was quoting Munjibar, but orange you glad you found out now?
Indigo the search phrase and out comes, “Fuchia!”
I won’t get violet, but I’m not mauving until someone tells me where Munjibar is.
I red the above and it sounds like that’s a person!
How khaki of you! Teal we know otherwise,
we can assume that’s what she mint.
…or he… *blush*
Such a typo might make Eric blue. Before he gets too brown, say something to cheer him up.
Yes, we should call a chartreuse.
I think that would be peachy. We don’t
want to foment umber-age, after all.
I sienna.. I couldn’t agree more with your agreenment.
just don’t take umber-age if they don’t need it..
Isn’t that a prominent theme in
Lavender Time of Cholera?
Azure as olive and breathe!
I laughed! I don’t think this is racist at all, it’s absurd, and that’s why it’s funny.
Ha ha ha! Hilarious!
I imagine it is some hawt gay in a thong parading around with a message harkening to his fellow sodomites, calling for more shit covered dicks.
Steve troll has issues.
I have a great deal of admiration for our Steve. He must have done something really awesome to attract a stalker sock.
Yeah, I’m more than a little jealous. I only had a stalker for two days.
I’ve never had one *invites trouble*
Hi Charro!
Trouble! You’re here!!!!! I have missed you.
I invited trouble over once, and all I have to say is that trouble doesn’t wipe the seat. *shakes head sadly*
Stop spreading fibs, or I’ll come knockin’ at yer door again…
The Steve troll is in Narnia…
From his comment I’m guessing he’s in the closet.
I think that’s what Unc was implying as well.
I really do wonder what awesome thing I’ve done to deserve such a hilarious troll. Of all the things for him to pick on, my sexuality is one thing that I’m entirely secure with. My old roommate was gay FFS, we went to Key West for New Years Eve 2008 and hit the gay clubs for him right after the straight strip club for my entertainment. I bought him a lapdance from some hairy skater guy and he got me a lapdance with this tiny little blond, short, not too thin, small perfect tits omg…so perfect…wait, what was I talking about?
It’s definitely more fun *working tech support when folks are allowed to dress that outrageously if they want to.
Dell tech:
I see you bought your computer with Ubuntu, let me trans–NOOO
Hello, this is Dell XPS support, how can I help you?
I thought I was being sent to Canonical, but this is a hardware problem, so
Let me tran–NO PLEASE NO this is a hardware issue
Okay, I need more information, open the Windows task manager, and
I can’t really do that….. I’ve got a diagnostic partition but it’s actually corrupt…
Hold on while I transfer you..
..नमस्कार, इस Dell भारत, क्या मैं तुम्हारे लिए आज हो सकता है?
AAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHEADDESKHEADDESKHEADDESK
Ah that’s Dell home not Dell Corporate. Dell Corp is great.
I had a similar experience with HP. I’d bought a Belkin router and couldn’t get one of the computers to work with it, so I called Belkin tech support, which was apparently in India. That guy was so nice and helpful, and actually seemed willing and able to help me solve my problem, buuuuut, we needed a number from the HP support. So I called HP, again, in India as I recall, and he was rude and hateful (and this was after being sent through phone tree hell), then told me I could not have my information unless I gave them a credit card number so they could charge me for it. So I gave up and searched the internet and found out the computer didn’t come with a network card to begin with. I guess they were willing to charge me to tell me that.
For some odd reason, this reminds me of the old SNL sketch where Ben Affleck called up Mango and pretended to be Matt Damon. Mango didn’t fall for it, so the next time, Ben Affleck put on a blond wig and fake buckteeth, and the ruse worked.
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“Technical Support, this is Opera Diva speaking, can I help you?”
“Hey, wait a minute! You’re not an opera singer! You’re Ben Hoo-fleck!”
Hello, tech support? My face is broken. Can you help?
I remember one time I called tech support for Dell, and the guy had a light Texas accent. Then later I seen a news report about these call centers giving their employees voice acting lessons.
Every time I get an English accent I just get confused. “Are you an Indian with an English accent? Or really a Brit? Or am I totally wrong and you’re Korean?”
I can has Turandot?
Aida! Turandot just left the building. If you can wait, maybe the modern major general can help you? But watch out for flying Fleidermouse!
Fleidermouse? DO NOT WANT. I need a haircut, is Figaro around?
But our Princess is in another castle!
… that’s kinda racist.
No it isn’t. I’m sorry, are you here for one five minute argument, or the course of ten?
Wow, I just flashed back to Monty Python! Thanks Seth..
1. Racist
2. Grammar fail
Well, time to stop watching this site. Not funny.
OMGZ IT’S RACIST COS THEY MENTIONED A MINORITY!!!
OMGZZZZZZZ!
….zzzzzz *snore* zzzzzzzzzz
Can you hear me now? Good.
I am reminded of how my company thinks it is a good idea to dabble in sending work to Guatemala after it already failing when they tried to send it to India. Oddly enough, Americans like to talk to people who speak their language when they discuss their loans…
Ironically, this was announced to us after I read something on the company page about how my company was looking forward to help Obama with the economy…
I usually have to deal with a Paki reading from a script. So much for customer service…
Which brings me to a conundrum, is it elitist or being a bigot to be annoyed when you have to deal with Pakistanis or Indians (from India for the hicks out there) constantly who don’t know their @ss from a hole in the ground when it comes to what you are doing?
It isn’t that they are stupid, not at all, it is simply that they think in a completely different way using a language that works in a different way. At lot of our tech support and service requests goes through India and some of the things I have to explain when they get confused is me having to explain the same thing over and over until my word use eventually dawns on them and even then, they barely get what is being conveyed. Then when I am discussing this, I find that I am definitely not alone with this problem.
Very annoying since it is painfully inefficient.
Elitist or bigoted? I think you sound like an elitist. Either way, reading your comments makes my eyes kinda roll back in my head a little.
I could accept elitist though I am sorry that the truth of what I deal with each day made your eyes roll into your head. I wasn’t trying to attack, I know they aren’t stupid, it is just a language and communication barrier that is making the work difficult and inefficient.
I’m guessing that the truth of what you deal with every day also makes your own eyes roll into your head occasionally….(I know mine does.)
Oh yes, I feel myself becoming momentarily racist if they take too damn long but I let that go when I come here and calm down and remember those little things like I am not the center of the universe and America isn’t the center of the universe.
Always nice to come to calm down.
That’s what she said….
Speaking of eyerolling, I agreed to cover something tomorrow for one of my bosses, only to find out that it involves the client who holds the dubious honor of almost being the first of my clients to find out exactly what it feels like to get stabbed in the thigh with a ballpoint pen for being a total jackhole. Yay? And of course,
*sigh*
Oooooh, now I want details…
Check your ICHC messages.
Kinky, will do.
Remember the good old days, when you could get bad customer service from an American? Man…things sure have changed.
Yeah, nothing like a Brooklyn accent to let you know how fu@ked you are!
Well with an American, you can actually tell if they are just being stupid. With having somebody from India on the line, they sound intelligent but clueless which skews your reaction because you can’t justify calling them stupid but you notice that it takes forever for them to figure out what you are talking about.
This assuming that you know what you’re talking about when you call in. If you’re an idiot, nobody at customer service can help you.
Going through a similar experience, I wouldn’t call your feelings bigoted, because you’re not questioning anyone’s right to exist and be happy. Your feelings aren’t elitist, either, because you clearly don’t hold yourself above the person (except for the “dawns on them” part, possibly).
How about “frustrated” or “impatient?”
I would go with a little of both. Frustrated that I have to repeat myself about five times in about five different versions of the same statement while their written tone acts like I am the idiot. Impatient because while I am having to rephrase for them, I am not actually doing the work I am supposed to be doing.
I think the “dawns on them” comment is a frustrated jab because their tone indicates that I am some kind of twit they are being patient with.
Naw, it’s just that they’ve got several more lifetimes of time so they seem irritatingly patient in the way they talk!
Been there…
During my last call, I was frustrated with the script reading until I realized that the company probably requires the script to be read verbatim, regardless of how inappropriate it might be for that particular situation. It was bound to be frustrating for the guy who had to read whatever popped up on his screen to say. He knew I was aware of most of the things he was reading to me, as we had already discussed them.
As frustrating as that was, I considered myself lucky, as, unlike the helpdesk guy, I didn’t have to spend six more hours in similar conversations, and come back to the same work the next day. That job must totally suck!
I’ve always hated the scripted jobs. Luckily mine isn’t scripted that much at all. They just want me to fix problems with leases and loans…
Baaaawwwwwwwwww they mentioned a minority it MUST be Bigoted!!! Because minorities are PERFECT, and if there are any problems with anyone different then me is MUST be MY FAULT. Lighten up! It’s a joke, and it’s funny because it’s true. Serial killers are White, Hired professional thugs are Italian, Gang members are Black and Hispanic, and sometimes Tongan, Native Americans are drunks, Teens cause most of societies ills, and Old People and asians drive bad. There I hate everyone equally therefore can not be bigoted, as I don’t prefer one group over any other.
Fester?
~
lol!
Erm, no
Nah, too whiny sounding to be fester. He’s more dry and cynical in his sum-up’s LOL
Gang members are Black and Hispanic, and sometimes Tongan…
Triad and the Hell’s Angels would like a word with you…out back.
Really, because I think of something a little more disturbing.
And it thinks of you too, big boy.
I think I just throw-up in my mouth.
*adds another stamp to my tally of wins*
In a rubber basque and a gimp mask?
This is just a bit to racist for my taste
And so, so offensive to women. And men. And any varieties of transgender or -dressing people. And anyone who has ever used a phone. And anyone who has ever used make-up. And …
JUST. SO. OFFENSIVE!!!!!
I’m OFFENDED that you’re OFFENDED!!!!!!!!11!!ELEVENTY!!!!!!
Hmpf. Well, I think I’m mre of a minority than you are, so my offendedness beats your offendedness!!!!! Ha!!!!!
Perhaps you are unaware that I *minored* in Minorities, so HA!
Take that, you evil member of the oppressive HAVES!!
hilarity!
THat is a worry if you are talking to a male