On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:55:33 GMT, "Paul" wrote:

Huge wrote:
On 2006-11-01, 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.

You do realise they're trained to lie, don't you?

I've covered that. If I don't believe them I hang up anyway. I could write
you a program to deal with it but I can't be bothered, my brain suffices.

If you are communicating with someone like BT, you have no choice.
They aren't trained necessarily to lie. But they are apparently
trained, in traditional BT fashion, to profess not to understand your
problem and to deal efficiently with it.

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