>Alpana mentioned about the funny accents coming out of the call centres. Our
>prejudices have to give way to the realities of the changing society
>globally, that is how I look at it. Personally I am not happy with my own accent. I
>am afraid I will have to live with it as long as I breathe as with so many
>other things in life!
With all due respect, I must point out here that you might have overlooked the quotes I put around the phrase ("foreigners with a funny accent"). I was just mentioning how some customers in the US comment about their accounts being handled by somebody with a non-american accent. It was not my phrase.
May be the 'urohi gosor ur korobat', may be they are saying it because they think their fellow Americans are loosing jobs because of this and can't see the long-term benefit of outsourcing, etc, etc. But this is how some of the customers talk.
By the way, I heard that the call center employees are not required to "try" to have an american accent anymore, when dealing with American customers, they can be themselves now.
While speaking English, I have a thick Assamese accent (and it will be there as long as I live - I can't help it), and I might find it difficult to understand somebody else's accent sometimes, but I won't comment like that just because somebody else is trying to do his/her job
...though I think one can get irritated when one tries to speak a language with a fake accent leaving his own natural one. Regards.
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>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>CC: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [Assam] BPO data theft in India -MasterCard USA
>Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 03:27:42 EDT
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>India alone cannot be singled out for corruption of this nature. Computer
>hacking first started in the developed countries rather than in India. What is
>interesting, these hackers are not always condemned. Their help is sough by
>the police to detect new crimes. Timely detection helps prevention of the
>crime.
>I would like to draw the attention of our knowledgeable netters to another
>aspect of corruption. What about civil servants selling official secrets
>(draft documents of important policy issues, etc) to the media and vested
>interests, political or otherwise? They commit offences on two planks; first as
>breaking a condition of their employment and secondly a moral one. What is
>revealing is that these offenders achieve celebrity status in course of time. It
>seems not only that the law has lost its rigour, the society itself has gone
>soft on crime and other social malaise.
>Alpana mentioned about the funny accents coming out of the call centres. Our
>prejudices have to give way to the realities of the changing society
>globally, that is how I look at it. Personally I am not happy with my own accent. I
>am afraid I will have to live with it as long as I breathe as with so many
>other things in life!
>Bhuban
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