Speak English
"Hello, my name is Sydney, may I speak to the owner of the business," a heavily accented female voice said on the telephone.
"Speaking," I replied.
"Your business can be the top listed business on Google, Yahoo or...", this almost unintelligible woman with an Indian accent said before I hung up the phone.
I hate these unintelligible phone calls that I receive around the first of every month. I don't particularly object to the telemarketing calls, but they had darn well better be understandable.
Having owned a business for over 30 years I understand the need to cut the cost of doing business and even though I don't like the concept, I understand why a corporation, which only cares about the bottom line, would move their telemarketing to a country where they can pay workers little or nothing to perform this service.
But if they are going to do this, they should at least require the company they hire to do this to have people who actually speak English so it can be understood by the average American.
They are unlikely to sell me their product anyway, since I learned to say no to telemarketers a long time ago, but quit insulting my intelligence with someone calling himself or herself by an American sounding name, when that obviously is not the case.
Yes, I could sign up for the no-call list, but I do occassionally get calls from marketers that I want to talk to.
Besides, that won't stop the non-stop telephone calls that everyone receives during a presidential election year.
- -- Posted by mcb on Fri, Sep 7, 2007, at 6:57 PM
- -- Posted by Chassedi Cooper, Nevada Daily Mail editorial ast. on Tue, Sep 18, 2007, at 3:58 PM
- -- Posted by ang.green on Wed, Mar 16, 2011, at 2:49 PM
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