Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 13:09:10 on Wed, 1
Nov 2006, Huge remarked:
The downside of this, as several people have pointed out, is that if
your job can be done remotely at home, it can be done remotely in
Hyderabad.

And we all know how badly even a simple thing like a call centre
transfers to Hyderabad in most cases. It's not as easy as it sounds
(local teleworking as well as 5,000 mile teleworking).

ps. I wonder if they are teleworking from the moon these days. A
speaker at a conference I'm attending referred to people working
"hundreds of thousands of miles away"

They are *awful*. As soon as I get the "sounds as though he's on Mars" line
quality, the poor English, the accent, and the background noise, I say "can
you tell me where you're speaking from please?" If it's other than the UK,
I hang up.

If enough of us do this there will no longer *be* any overseas call centres,
and a good thing too.

Paul

P.S. No I don't read the Daily Mail.