Monday, March 13, 2006 - 10:27 am, by: Dan McColl(Hoon)
They've got a job to do and a family to feed, just like any one else.
I normally tell them that they've caught you at an inconvenient time, and ask for their home number so that you can call back at a more convenient time.
Monday, March 13, 2006 - 11:22 am, by: Chris Davey(Chris_davey)
I had a brilliant one this time and the person was so robotic I thought they were a machine. Did this massive schpiel for like a minute and then at the end they asked me a question but I didn’t realise it.
Them: hello? Me: helllooooooooooo? Them: hello? Me: helllooooooooooo? Them: hello? Me: helllooooooooooo? Them: hello? Me: helllooooooooooo? Them: hello? Me: onamae wa nani? Them: hello? Me: kikinai Them: hello? Me: are dare dato omo ton ja!!!
I was speaking Japanese and said, what is your name? can’t you hear? Who the hell do you think I am?!! It is great fun I can’t wait for my next one :D
But now I am having a competition to see who in my family can get the best curry recipe.
Monday, March 13, 2006 - 08:48 pm, by: Greg Host(Ghost)
hahaha Today my daughter was really disappointed when my wife answered the phone and said nobody was there. Then she hung up. When my daughter looked at the number and it said "overseas" she cried "Mum, why didn't you give it to me?!?!? I wanted to talk to them again"
Monday, March 13, 2006 - 09:18 pm, by: Ben Kelly(Ace)
I hate to be a downer but those people are from the outskirts of india usually being paid very little to work in shabby conditions. Most of the leads are sold from relatively low paid 'execs' within the larger call centres in the capital who work for major companies who have shifted their call centre operations to india to save on labour costs (also meaning that more australians are out of work). So in summary methinks that you should ring up an optus executive (optus is relocating call centre to india) and give him the Borat treatment; and maybe a friendly 'no thank you' to the hardworking indian men/women who are wondering what their children are going to be eating that night.
Ken Cornell TryHard Western Australia 4.0GT V8 Soarer
Monday, March 13, 2006 - 09:46 pm, by: Ken Cornell(Dunadan)
Aaron Mead wrote on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 05:36 pm:
Just got a guy selling LG mobile phones at NO COST TO YOU, thats right NO COST!!!
I just got that one!! The connection was bad too, so as soon as he said his first speel I said, "sorry I can't hear you" and hung up. I think I'll do that from now on. boring, but semi-polite.
Ben Kelly wrote on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 09:18 pm:
those people are from the outskirts of india usually being paid very little to work in shabby conditions
They are getting paid $4 an hour mate. That is not much by our standards, but by their standards they make more in one day then what the average person there makes in a month. Remember everything (goods and services) over there is a lot lot cheaper to buy then here in Oz. I'd say those call centre ppl over there have a very good standard of living, even better than some people here in our country.
Outskirts of India? There are a billion people living there, the biggest poverty is in the centre of the cities... I'd say that is a good thing then
Brad Elphinstone wrote on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 11:38 am:
Even they have the option to take up a more respected profession..... like drowning kittens for example.
I've tried that once when I was younger and it ain't that easy!!! Resorted to using a bucket and a big rubber boot so it closed off the top otherwise the little buggers somehow squeezed out and started running away! Ok I think I will shut up now
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 09:34 am, by: Gaurav Gupta(Gupta)
guys.. i was just in india... the people at work at call centres there are the same demographics that work at callcentres here -
students/young people who studied IT but cant get anywhere because of the oversupply in the IT industry still get paid about 400,000 rupees per year (apparently a very decent salary) - $11,000 that is.
They are NOT from the outskirts of India, they dont get paid SFA and they are generally from good families. In fact most of them are pushing the new cultural and 'spending' revolution in India right now.
I know that you get annoyed with call centre people, but its not exactly fair to blame them when all they are dong is following orders.. form multinationals who will charge about 10 times the price of what they pay them to make huge profits.
And as for technology.. believe me... going to places liek Shanghai and Beijing in China and Mumbai and Delhi in India make you realise how far behind us aussies really are in technology... things that have just been introduced very recently like 3's caller tones (music instead of ringing when you are calling someone) has been in these 'third world countries' for years now.
In fact they are estimating that the Chinese and Indian market for mobile phones in 2 years time will be greater than the rest of the world combined!
Great, I'm sure they will have a lot of enjoyment out of those music tones on $11,000 a year... crappy things like that still don't change the standard of living mate.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 12:22 pm, by: Perry Morgan(Uzz32)
Daniel, just because the cash works out to be around $11k in aus money does not mean they pay the same amount for things there as they would here. I'm fairly sure the average rent price and so on would not be on a par with what it is here.
That's exactly what I said couple of posts ago Perry
Nah what I meant is something else. When I was travelling through eastern europe a while ago I have realised that people over there had access to far more technologically advanced stuff (at the time) than what we do here in Oz. Or put it another way, they had access to it a lot earlier than us (same with movies and computer games, thats another thing altogether though) And I mean various things such from big flat screen TVs to computerised shower cabins (that one was a highlight of my day). Now taking that shower for example, I didn't see it in any expo or anything like that, it was widely availabe to buy at any normal MYER type store, for squillions mind you. Sure the locals were proud to 'have it' yet not a great deal of people could actually afford to buy it. So it just sits there mostly for show, so people could dream about one day owning it. But hey, they are far ahead technologically than we are!
Now my point is, making technology available to people is one thing, making the technology affordable is another. And that's where standards of living are different. Just because we don't have musical ringing tones as soon as they do, well we'll probably start using them here at the same time as they will be able to afford to use them... That is if it is an overseas product, anything local obviously won't be expensive to them.
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