5 Million Happy Posts Thread

[Sheff159]

Originally Posted by boffo

We only dealt with American customers and most of them seemed too stupid to care. Many a time I got "It's so nice to be talking to an American" followed by various racist comments about people from India. Since I speak english clearly, I'm obviously American. At least a couple of people determined that based on my accent I was Australian. One lady that sat beside me for a while was British and had an obvious accent. She was once told that she couldn't be understood and the customer insisted he be transferred to someone who speaks english.

why...why are Americans always generalized like this...its personally offensive to me.

[rounds1]

Originally Posted by boffo

We only dealt with American customers and most of them seemed too stupid to care. Many a time I got "It's so nice to be talking to an American" followed by various racist comments about people from India. Since I speak english clearly, I'm obviously American. At least a couple of people determined that based on my accent I was Australian. One lady that sat beside me for a while was British and had an obvious accent. She was once told that she couldn't be understood and the customer insisted he be transferred to someone who speaks english.

Ha! There are all sorts of dopes out there. Canadian accent mistaken for Australian? Give me a break! Some British are hard to understand though.

I work w/IT almost all day, so I'll admit that Indians can be pretty tough to understand (not all, but some). They sometimes want to call me instead of using our instant messaging system and it is often counter productive. Not their fault, though...and we always get the job done.

[Fyrus]

Indians can be hard to understand at times. But yeah, Boffo, people are retarded.

[boffo]

Originally Posted by sheff159

why...why are Americans always generalized like this...its personally offensive to me.

I said most of them. As in the ones that call up customer care because they haven't used their internet for 3 months while on vacation and now they're being charged for it despite the fact they weren't home. Or the ones that need to order a new cell phone as they're driving to the hospital to see their dying son and expect me to finish the call in 2 minutes because they need the line open in case the hospital calls.

[Sheff159]

Originally Posted by rounds1

Ha! There are all sorts of dopes out there. Canadian accent mistaken for Australian? Give me a break! Some British are hard to understand though.

I work w/IT almost all day, so I'll admit that Indians can be pretty tough to understand (not all, but some). They sometimes want to call me instead of using our instant messaging system and it is often counter productive. Not their fault, though...and we always get the job done.

Oh man, one time when I called dell tech support, and got a clearly asian person, and they introduced themself with a very western, even American name. I held back from saying "what is your real name, and not the name the company gave to you so that you can seem more appealing to Americans" But I didnt.

[boffo]

Originally Posted by sheff159

why...why are Americans always generalized like this...its personally offensive to me.

I'd also like to point out that my wife is American and that I typically generalize all people as being stupid. I'm not really a big fan of humanity for the most part and the world would be a much better place without us morons screwing around with it.

[rounds1]

Originally Posted by boffo

I said most of them. As in the ones that call up customer care because they haven't used their internet for 3 months while on vacation and now they're being charged for it despite the fact they weren't home. Or the ones that need to order a new cell phone as they're driving to the hospital to see their dying son and expect me to finish the call in 2 minutes because they need the line open in case the hospital calls.

I don't think these types of people are limited to Americans though.

[Fyrus]

Holy fucking shit, happy marriage gnu.

[Sheff159]

Originally Posted by boffo

I said most of them. As in the ones that call up customer care because they haven't used their internet for 3 months while on vacation and now they're being charged for it despite the fact they weren't home. Or the ones that need to order a new cell phone as they're driving to the hospital to see their dying son and expect me to finish the call in 2 minutes because they need the line open in case the hospital calls.

Yeah, believe me, I understand the kind of people you're talking about. I worked in a call center as well, and people can really suck. I was just reffering to for the most part, people portray Americans with similar examples you said, and by no means is everyone like that. Im sure that plenty of other countries have people who would call on the way to the hospital and expect you to fix their problem instantly. I vote for that we collect all people like that across the world, and toss them into the sun...

[Sheff159]

ok, im off to see the doctor now, be back in like an hour and a half.