Comments on: The Two Faces of the Internet http://www.jbvisions.co.uk/voices/archives/127 Breezing the shoot. Random mutterings of a Web Developer. Sat, 17 May 2008 01:51:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Joyce http://www.jbvisions.co.uk/voices/archives/127#comment-773 Joyce Sat, 10 May 2008 21:05:38 +0000 http://www.jbvisions.co.uk/voices/archives/127#comment-773 That explains why I get some highly intelligent individual responding in a foreign accent (totally mystified but trying to remain sounding intelligent) as I spell Kyle over and over again.......no, it is in Scotland.......spell Kyle again? OK......Karachi yankee lima....no, no, no not Karachi in India - look, it's ok really, I am quite happy not to have BT broadband.............. That explains why I get some highly intelligent individual responding in a foreign accent (totally mystified but trying to remain sounding intelligent) as I spell Kyle over and over again…….no, it is in Scotland…….spell Kyle again? OK……Karachi yankee lima….no, no, no not Karachi in India - look, it’s ok really, I am quite happy not to have BT broadband…………..

]]> By: Jaybee http://www.jbvisions.co.uk/voices/archives/127#comment-774 Jaybee Sun, 11 May 2008 00:56:23 +0000 http://www.jbvisions.co.uk/voices/archives/127#comment-774 LOL. In the IT industry you get used to it. A large computer company who shall remain nameless, (but my other half used to work for them) outsourced their support to India. The staff were given a list of English names and told to choose one so that when the Western customers phoned up it would make them feel more at home. Unfortunately, the list didn't distinguish between male and female names so my other half was somewhat perturbed when a deep male voice answered the call and announced his name was Shirley! :-) I'm just getting sick to death of talking to people whose English is so bad that I can't understand a single word they say. There's only so many times you can ask them to repeat it. Last week, one company called up and I couldn't even get the company name, despite asking 4 times. LOL. In the IT industry you get used to it. A large computer company who shall remain nameless, (but my other half used to work for them) outsourced their support to India. The staff were given a list of English names and told to choose one so that when the Western customers phoned up it would make them feel more at home. Unfortunately, the list didn’t distinguish between male and female names so my other half was somewhat perturbed when a deep male voice answered the call and announced his name was Shirley! :-)

I’m just getting sick to death of talking to people whose English is so bad that I can’t understand a single word they say. There’s only so many times you can ask them to repeat it. Last week, one company called up and I couldn’t even get the company name, despite asking 4 times.

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