The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Paul wrote:
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.

I am inclined to agree.

I spend an utterly delightful ten minutes on the phone to Rita, In BT
in Dundee this morning. Who understood exactly what I wanted, the
total situation and how to sort it, and was I imagined, drop dead
gorgeous..her voice was anyway..

mcpThey're almost always fat, the nicer the voice, the fatter the
speaker/mcp

pcLook at the three Tenors/pc

Paul