I was a thin line away from saying "can I talk to someone that speaks english please"

sons of bitches

1/27/2008 2:41:09 PM

that, in and of itself, is not racist at all.

It's not unreasonable to want to talk to someone you can fucking communicate with

1/27/2008 2:43:35 PM

i felt bad though

i dont normally yell at cust service folk, but goddamn, i even said "can i speak to another customer service rep please"

but after 5 times of being cordial fuck that shit

[Edited on January 27, 2008 at 2:45 PM. Reason : .]

1/27/2008 2:44:46 PM

i dont like when non-white people get my order wrong at burger king

1/27/2008 2:46:03 PM

This is why I'll only call during regular business hours - the odds of reaching off-shored tech support is so much lower.

1/27/2008 2:46:23 PM

i hate talking to curry eating fuckers when trying to get tech help - all they can do s read out of the book. i have taken to starting things off with "look, not to be rude, but I am VERY computer savvy, so skip the book, and help me with this...I have checked all the wires, and restarted my computer - now what?" especially with time warner cable - OMFG hand the phone to an AMERICAN.

1/27/2008 2:47:54 PM

mmmmmmmm...burger king

1/27/2008 2:48:30 PM

Is yor puhsonal compyoota tuhned on?

1/27/2008 2:49:33 PM

at least you cant smell through a phone.

1/27/2008 2:49:51 PM

i dont know what makes me racist sometimes....i make fun of whites, blacks, and everyone else, but some times i feel i hate a particular one more...or i say more meaner shit for certain groups...i tell myself its all in good fun or "i have black friends"...part of it is not thinking about all aspects of the racist comment...or maybe its just something i heard and it was on my head....idk racism is very interesting to me...i really wonder what the world would be like if we mixed all the people....

1/27/2008 2:50:41 PM

this thread makes me

1/27/2008 2:51:11 PM

sometimes when i call time warner i get so fed up with the stupid bitches they have working the lines i want to scream PLEASE JUST LET ME TALK TO A MALE

1/27/2008 3:01:40 PM

many companies have first line outsourced, and second level still domestic

often if you ask to elevate the call, you'll get a us rep.

it helps

1/27/2008 3:27:40 PM

I ordered dish network once, paid and everything, then canceled before it was even installed because the person that called to confirm everything did not understand English.

1/27/2008 4:53:13 PM

Quote :

"i hate talking to curry eating fuckers when trying to get tech help - all they can do s read out of the book. i have taken to starting things off with "look, not to be rude, but I am VERY computer savvy, so skip the book, and help me with this...I have checked all the wires, and restarted my computer - now what?" especially with time warner cable - OMFG hand the phone to an AMERICAN."

all tech support, curry eating or not, starts with the book... racist

1/27/2008 6:32:09 PM

Quote :

"I was a thin line away from saying "can I talk to someone that speaks english please""

i do this almost every time

1/27/2008 7:49:18 PM

I always google slang for the person I'm talking to's native language

Like if they were hindi I might start the conversation off like abe randi ke bhosdekhud ko kya samajhta hai?

1/27/2008 7:58:41 PM

Philadelphia International Airport turned me into a racist for a brief time

1/27/2008 9:23:29 PM

I do tech support and I'll say that most of us at my call centers are idiots. They'll hire anyone who can pass a basic multiple choice test like "what is an ip address?" and "how would you open the control panel on a computer?" There's very little training, so if you want something that doesn't have explicit instructions in our database, you're probably not going to get it. A lot of times, these fools cant even follow the instructions that we do have.

1/27/2008 9:42:12 PM

i dont like when non-white people get my order wrong at burger king

[Edited on January 27, 2008 at 9:51 PM. Reason : .]

1/27/2008 9:50:53 PM

As far as I know cell phone customer service is not outsourced to overseas....Cingular is just horrible in general...

1/27/2008 9:52:27 PM

update

i called back on the business hours, talked to some white chick, she fixed it in 5 minutes

$147 bill to $53, simple fix

2/5/2008 10:36:47 AM

Either Sprint Tech support is overseas, or I've just gotten an Indian national at a US call center both times I've needed to talk to them... (which is probably a big part of why it took 3 damn weeks to get my number ported from AT&T to my new Sprint phone...)

2/5/2008 11:50:34 AM

Everyone in the world should speak English. It's unbearable that I have to deal with people from other countries! I bet I sound perfectly normal with my southern accent.

2/5/2008 11:57:41 AM

When you call an American company in the United States then the general expectation is that they speak english properly.

2/5/2008 12:02:06 PM

Not trying to start another rant.....

I was on the phone with time warner cable customer service..... a woman...... who as trying to help me fix my cable modem... Me knowing full well that Time Warner has 2 different modems, the old style surfboard modems, and the newer style black ones with USB on it. After explaining my problem she told me to use the USB port. I said, "Ma'am I have a surfboard type modem, it doesn't have USB" to which she replied, your modem should have come with a USB cable. Once i told her it did not, she got mad and was like, well do you have another USB cable you can use, so of course i said sure, I have plenty of those, I let her talk me through it..... plug one end into your computer, "yes ok, i did that"... now plug the other end into the modem.... "Ma'am the rectangle USB does not fit in the round Coax port.... she yelled at me and transfered me.....

Then I got to talk to some dude......... 2 minutes, i had a new surfboard on its way to my apt....

2/5/2008 12:07:56 PM

i was just at a gas station and the nigerian clerk was berating the black guy in the store saying shit like, "i dont understand you african americans. you dont make any sense in the head...."

i was wowed

2/5/2008 12:41:40 PM

lol

was he like

"WHAT IS DIS!? I CAUNT GET JIGGY WIT DIS SHEET!"

2/6/2008 10:47:25 AM

ahahahaha <3

2/6/2008 10:52:22 AM

haha I love the Nigerians. They are awesome (if a little hard to understand sometimes).

But, my viewpoint may also come from having a Nigerian chemistry teacher in high school. Dude was awesome though (and once again, hard to understand all the time). Went off once about how he was a true African-American since he was born in Africa and then came to the US.



So got pointed out one time for falling asleep in the back of the class once too (he almost always had bunsen burners running all over the classroom).
It was cool though. He was talking to someone else and pointed out that I fell asleep (on a stool, head bobbing) in the back all the time and was still doing really well in the class.

2/6/2008 2:30:19 PM

There is an older guy at the convenience store across from campus though that is hard to understand 75% of the time. His son is much easier to talk to.

Almost walked out once because I make out that I had to have like over $3 to use my damn debit card.

[Edited on February 6, 2008 at 2:33 PM. Reason : add]

2/6/2008 2:31:46 PM

ITS NOT CINGULAR ANYMORE ITS AT&T

2/6/2008 2:34:23 PM

^and it sucks.
But nonetheless. you are all racists.
k.

2/6/2008 3:34:29 PM

if you were like "My name is John Smith" they'd be like "ooh-kay meester smoth woot ess the prooblem"

2/6/2008 3:36:41 PM

Quote :

"Me knowing full well that Time Warner has 2 different modems, the old style surfboard modems, and the newer style black ones with USB on it. "

The black ones are ALSO surfboard modems. They just have a different model number than the old white ones.

2/6/2008 3:47:55 PM