Im sick of talking to Indians!

[Jack_Dubious]

No not the John Wayne type Indians...

Is anyone else tired of talking to Indian tech support call centers? Not only are they hard to talk to and communicate with, they are usually on a crappy VOIP line that has a bad delay and choppy sound.

btw- i heard earthlink just layed off 1300 employees and moved many of the positions to India. Things like this make me mad....but hey whatever helps to increase the bottom line, right?

JDub

[beam]

Dell is almost all Indian support.

Why pay some American, when you can hire 10 people in India for less?

[Mindflux]

Originally posted by beam
Dell is almost all Indian support.

Why pay some American, when you can hire 10 people in India for less?

Dell dropped their Indian Tech support, or atleast announced they are going to. They did it after the large volume of complaints.

[phantomhitman]

a whole lot of big companies are doing this. i have read a lot of articles in mags and newspapers recently about this. complaints are going up but the companies make more money.

[1stdeadeye]

Chex Systems moved their entire phone center operation to India. Real funny hearing someone with a heavy accent saying," Hello this is Barbie, How may I help you?"

[Miscue]

Ha! Now you get a taste of what it is to be an engineering student. I don't mind their accent, I'm used to it. I love Bollywood movies, and have thought about studying Hindi so I don't need subtitles. At one point, I knew a few popular Indian songs...

Here's a few Indian actresses I wouldn't mind talking to over tech support:

<img src="http://indiacinema.8m.com/aish/page2/aish13.jpg">
<img src="http://indiacinema.8m.com/kojal/kajol8.jpg">
<img src="http://indiacinema.8m.com/aish/page2/aish23.jpg">
<img src="http://indiacinema.8m.com/aish/page2/aish22.jpg">
<img src="http://indiacinema.8m.com/aish/page2/aish19.jpg">

See, your Barbie just might be a hottie with a difficult accent.

[FalconGuy016]

Yes but they suck at tech support... besides, they are thousands of miles away on a telephone, what good is that gonna be



Btw, my dad had a brush with one of those tech support places in India. If you try hard enough, you can get to a U.S. phone (keep saying talk to their supervisor or something), and explain to that person how the indian support center was useless. My dad actually got through to the president of the company it was neat

[impostal22]

the sending of jobs to foreign countries like india is one of the big reasons i'm prolly not going into computer science/software engineering :-/

[Miscue]

Originally posted by impostal22
the sending of jobs to foreign countries like india is one of the big reasons i'm prolly not going into computer science/software engineering :-/

You know... when I started Comp Sci, it was a great field to get into. If I were 5 years younger and had to do college today, maybe culinary arts would be better. There was a point where it was not too hard to get a really good paying job... all gone now.

[OfficerGoat]

Originally posted by Miscue

There was a point where it was not too hard to get a really good paying job... all gone now.

NFS!!! I know guys doing web design for $8 an hour! In-N-Out Burger pays better than that!! WTF!?!?

Now if you have some experience the best bet is to do independent consulting. I make as much doing that 5-10 hrs a week as I do at my 40hr job.

There are jobs out there that pay well... but getting them is TOUGH!! Be prepaired to fight if you want to work in this field.

BTW ... I know your bottom Bambi, personaly, she used to work as a remote chat host for the DotCom I used to work for. Very nice chick. (With good english too)

My beef with indian tech support is the fact that most of them are very condensending. I think its the fact that they come from a "Classed" society and the fact that they are employed puts them in one of the upper classes. Its iritating. Unfortunantly I have to deal with them everyday FDC (A major CC front end processor) uses them.

[Jeffy-CanCon]

This is the next logical step of ghlobalization. It's the same as exporting all those shoe-factory
jobs twenty or so years ago. It's just capitalism.

"Those who invented the law of supply and demand have no right to complain when it is used against them."
- Gamal Abdel Nasser (President of Egypt, 1956)


nice pics, Miscue.

[davidb]

Anyone else here love Indian food? Chicken Tikka Masala.. ..:odrool:o..

[Miscue]

Originally posted by OfficerGoat


Now if you have some experience the best bet is to do independent consulting. I make as much doing that 5-10 hrs a week as I do at my 40hr job.

Yeah, I figure that too. What I'm going to do is, while I'm doing my 9-5... work on my own software projects that handle certain niches until I can be self-sustaining. People pay big bucks for crappy software all the time. Inventory software, stuff made for their profession... etc... specialized stuff. I want to offer something better, for less money. Right now I'm looking at point-of-sale, inventory, medical, and law enforcement type applications.

I figure... I could theoretically have just a few clients and be making bank... and do whatever the hell I want all day because the software is working. At least, that's the goal... I think it's a reasonable aspiration - and not a pipe dream.

You can't make money working for someone else.

[-=Squid=-]

Originally posted by Miscue
Ha! Now you get a taste of what it is to be an engineering student. I don't mind their accent, I'm used to it. I love Bollywood movies, and have thought about studying Hindi so I don't need subtitles. At one point, I knew a few popular Indian songs...

Here's a few Indian actresses I wouldn't mind talking to over tech support:

<img src="http://indiacinema.8m.com/aish/page2/aish13.jpg">
<img src="http://indiacinema.8m.com/kojal/kajol8.jpg">
<img src="http://indiacinema.8m.com/aish/page2/aish23.jpg">
<img src="http://indiacinema.8m.com/aish/page2/aish22.jpg">
<img src="http://indiacinema.8m.com/aish/page2/aish19.jpg">

See, your Barbie just might be a hottie with a difficult accent.

Did you just happen to have those on your hardrive/available?

[phantomhitman]

am i the only person that hates when people quote a whole post, especially with pics in it?