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Pretty sad when you phone a Canadian branch of a huge company and your told to Press 1 for English, but when someone answers you can't understand a single word he's saying.

 

Life used to be so simple.

 

Thanks for your attention, carry on with what you were doing.

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This is a true story as I was standing right next to my former boss, when it happened.

We were having internet connection problems at the office. Bell was our provider. As many know, calling Bell for tech support gets you deep into "Emily" and eventually a call centre in India.

Her call was dropped at least three times, by the good folks at Bell, meaning, she was on the phone for more than an hour, trying to get things solved.

The final time, the call centre rep asked if he could put her on hold, while he connects with someone else in tech support. Well, having had the call dropped three times already, she wasn't going to have any of that! She told him no, don't put me on hold, you'll lose my call and I'll have to start all over again. His response... "don't worry, we'll be with you till we kill the goat".

It did get solved, but I can't recall much after as I was rolling on the floor laughing so hard!

HH

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At cooking school I spent considerable time while not in class learning what an instructor at George Brown called Spadina English.... For those not lucky enough to have lived in Kensington Market in the big smoke. It is a lyrical mix, of Yiddish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Portuguese, Jamaican, Italian, Hindu and about a dozen other dialects all mixed together. Spoken very loudly, at a rapid fire stattico pace, because, time is money and yelling something quickly was somehow felt to magically enable comprehension. Having that background I can usually eventually suss out what the other person on the tech desk is saying.

 

However, lately when I can't,, if I dare to ask to speak to some who I can understand. I get yelled at and then hung up on. If I call back I am told I am being intolerant and racist for asking for service in english I can understand LOL.

 

So you are right Lew progress isn't all it is cracked up to be.

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Pretty sad when you phone a Canadian branch of a huge company and your told to Press 1 for English, but when someone answers you can't understand a single word he's saying.

 

Life used to be so simple.

 

Thanks for your attention, carry on with what you were doing.

Maybe you should type it out. UNO

Happens here all the time. Too bad you have to call India - just to speak to someone down the road. LOL

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Just to get a idea of whom and where this call is being answered from, I sometimes after several attempts of really trying to understand their English I will ask "what's park outside your window right now, a camel or a elephant". That is always answered with a silent moment by my friendly phone rep.

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Just to get a idea of whom and where this call is being answered from, I sometimes after several attempts of really trying to understand their English I will ask "what's park outside your window right now, a camel or a elephant". That is always answered with a silent moment by my friendly phone rep.

 

That's just plain ignorant as far as I'm concerned.

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It seems I have "issues" with Bell Expressvu a couple times a year.

The last time I called in I was told the wait time was 20-30 minutes or I could arrange for them to call me back,which I did.

While waiting for the call I went online & dealt with a rep through a chat box,my problem was resolved in 5 minutes.

If this service is available with the company you are dealing with it definitely a better way to go,imo

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Just to get a idea of whom and where this call is being answered from, I sometimes after several attempts of really trying to understand their English I will ask "what's park outside your window right now, a camel or a elephant". That is always answered with a silent moment by my friendly phone rep.

Wow....

 

I know its a nuassance but thats going a lil far dontcha think?

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We deal with call centres...XEROX...for our digital print machinery. We call the 1-800 # and someone outside Canada takes our info and forwards the call to our service technicians. I have not had many bad experiences with language problems. I do however find it extremely frustrating when the person you are talking to tries to fix the problem over the phone. They start going through a "checklist" of stuff to try. Sometimes you have to cut them off and say "Look I already tried all these things....just send a technician like I asked for in the first place. :wallbash:

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