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		<title>By: Scott</title>
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		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Chris, the only reason these call centers exist is due to a cheap labor force.  A lot of these corporations figure their product will still make a profit even with small losses due to the frustration of dealing with India.   It is not the superiority of Indian workers over Americans, it is the fact that they can hire 4 Indians for the price of one American.  I will say that most of the call center workers I have dealt with were very courteous and pleasant.   The main problem is the language barrier and some appear to have less knowledge of the product than I do (as you mentioned in your post, Chris).  A lot of the problem with American companies hiring American workers is the corporations feel the need to pacify the shareholders and make as much profit as they can.   It is mostly the Machiavellian approach in that the end justifies the means.   When technology improved to the point of making the whole world accessible, the corporations found new ways to circumvent what they deemed high labor costs.  It is almost a return to the days of the robber barons where you have a small percentage at the top making sinful amounts of money and a large population of workers who make less and less and often find their jobs being shipped overseas.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chris, the only reason these call centers exist is due to a cheap labor force.  A lot of these corporations figure their product will still make a profit even with small losses due to the frustration of dealing with India.   It is not the superiority of Indian workers over Americans, it is the fact that they can hire 4 Indians for the price of one American.  I will say that most of the call center workers I have dealt with were very courteous and pleasant.   The main problem is the language barrier and some appear to have less knowledge of the product than I do (as you mentioned in your post, Chris).  A lot of the problem with American companies hiring American workers is the corporations feel the need to pacify the shareholders and make as much profit as they can.   It is mostly the Machiavellian approach in that the end justifies the means.   When technology improved to the point of making the whole world accessible, the corporations found new ways to circumvent what they deemed high labor costs.  It is almost a return to the days of the robber barons where you have a small percentage at the top making sinful amounts of money and a large population of workers who make less and less and often find their jobs being shipped overseas.</p>
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		<title>By: Chris</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am tired of getting call centers in Mumbai for every tech support or customer service call I make. They take forever to try to understand what I&#039;m saying, almost always get it wrong, then simply refer me back to the website&#039;s FAQs (which I consulted first). Been through this with everyone from Yahoo Professional to EA Games.

People keep talking about the loss of &quot;manufacturing&quot; jobs ... well, add damn near everything else to that list. I end up speaking to someone who knows less than I do about systems, less than I do about the product I&#039;m calling about ... and barely speaks my language. If major companies paid someone local for these service jobs, they would keep more local (read American) customers. Then they&#039;d make more money. Then they&#039;d have to shed less jobs here in America. It&#039;s pretty damned simple.

If you want to GROW your job base in India, you should GROW your customer base in India. How happy would you be if you were 57-years-old and found your job (of explaining how a product works) outsourced to someone here in America who barely understood Hindi? 

Getr over your superiority complex. We&#039;re NOT supid. We&#039;re just sick of YOU taking OUR JOBS!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am tired of getting call centers in Mumbai for every tech support or customer service call I make. They take forever to try to understand what I&#8217;m saying, almost always get it wrong, then simply refer me back to the website&#8217;s FAQs (which I consulted first). Been through this with everyone from Yahoo Professional to EA Games.</p>
<p>People keep talking about the loss of &#8220;manufacturing&#8221; jobs &#8230; well, add damn near everything else to that list. I end up speaking to someone who knows less than I do about systems, less than I do about the product I&#8217;m calling about &#8230; and barely speaks my language. If major companies paid someone local for these service jobs, they would keep more local (read American) customers. Then they&#8217;d make more money. Then they&#8217;d have to shed less jobs here in America. It&#8217;s pretty damned simple.</p>
<p>If you want to GROW your job base in India, you should GROW your customer base in India. How happy would you be if you were 57-years-old and found your job (of explaining how a product works) outsourced to someone here in America who barely understood Hindi? </p>
<p>Getr over your superiority complex. We&#8217;re NOT supid. We&#8217;re just sick of YOU taking OUR JOBS!</p>
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		<title>By: Frost Snowman</title>
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		<dc:creator>Frost Snowman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Joshua.  You are a maggot and a traitor.  You should feel shame.  Saarthak you are an idiot.  People starve in Asia, India and Africa because THERE ARE TOO MANY PEOPLE !.  Stop breeding like vermin and the problems will disappear.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Joshua.  You are a maggot and a traitor.  You should feel shame.  Saarthak you are an idiot.  People starve in Asia, India and Africa because THERE ARE TOO MANY PEOPLE !.  Stop breeding like vermin and the problems will disappear.</p>
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		<title>By: Saarthak</title>
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		<dc:creator>Saarthak</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hatedots, never did I think I&#039;d come across an American more contempible than you. You proved me right.

You said:

&quot;No arrogance here and really don’t care what a bunch of dotheads in a third world rathole think anyway. &quot;

If that sentence does not show arrogance, racism and bigotry in every syllable, then you are a dickhead. If it does, you are still a bigger dickhead.

Be grateful that you were born in a country where you did not have to struggle to make ends meet. There are millions in Asia and Africa who live on the brink of starvation. You might call that living in &#039;third world rathole&#039; conditions, and masturbate about it, throwing up orgasms of racist slurs and superiroity complexes, but I hope life teaches you a good lesson in humanity. Of course, why would anyone expect a person like you to even think of showing empathy to people who were born poor for no fault of theirs? What difference will it make to you if a child in Ethopia dies because his family couldn&#039;t afford to buy food? Obviously nothing. But at least refrain from calling less endowed people various names and gloat about their living conditions.

I was just pointing out the contradiction in your sentence but ended up giving a lecture. Sigh.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hatedots, never did I think I&#8217;d come across an American more contempible than you. You proved me right.</p>
<p>You said:</p>
<p>&#8220;No arrogance here and really don’t care what a bunch of dotheads in a third world rathole think anyway. &#8221;</p>
<p>If that sentence does not show arrogance, racism and bigotry in every syllable, then you are a dickhead. If it does, you are still a bigger dickhead.</p>
<p>Be grateful that you were born in a country where you did not have to struggle to make ends meet. There are millions in Asia and Africa who live on the brink of starvation. You might call that living in &#8216;third world rathole&#8217; conditions, and masturbate about it, throwing up orgasms of racist slurs and superiroity complexes, but I hope life teaches you a good lesson in humanity. Of course, why would anyone expect a person like you to even think of showing empathy to people who were born poor for no fault of theirs? What difference will it make to you if a child in Ethopia dies because his family couldn&#8217;t afford to buy food? Obviously nothing. But at least refrain from calling less endowed people various names and gloat about their living conditions.</p>
<p>I was just pointing out the contradiction in your sentence but ended up giving a lecture. Sigh.</p>
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		<title>By: HateDots</title>
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		<dc:creator>HateDots</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Joshua you are not an American so you need to shut your piehole, Dothead Boy.  If you are in America then take your towelhead ass out back to that third world shithole you came from, boy.   I know what shit is and it&#039;s the stench that hangs over your country like a cloud.  Too bad we can&#039;t see a nice mushroom cloud over it and wipe you and the rest of you verminous filth into oblivion.   Too bad that Union Carbide leak didn&#039;t cover more territory as in the entire country.  Come on over and pop off to an American face to face, Sandjaya Goopta, and you&#039;ll get a quick lesson in how Americans take care of shit like you, boy.  How about I enhance my Dothead Extermination skills starting with you?   Sure would make the world a much better place.  No more &quot;kindly reboot your wodem&quot; bullshit customer service from that pisshole you live in.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Joshua you are not an American so you need to shut your piehole, Dothead Boy.  If you are in America then take your towelhead ass out back to that third world shithole you came from, boy.   I know what shit is and it&#8217;s the stench that hangs over your country like a cloud.  Too bad we can&#8217;t see a nice mushroom cloud over it and wipe you and the rest of you verminous filth into oblivion.   Too bad that Union Carbide leak didn&#8217;t cover more territory as in the entire country.  Come on over and pop off to an American face to face, Sandjaya Goopta, and you&#8217;ll get a quick lesson in how Americans take care of shit like you, boy.  How about I enhance my Dothead Extermination skills starting with you?   Sure would make the world a much better place.  No more &#8220;kindly reboot your wodem&#8221; bullshit customer service from that pisshole you live in.</p>
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		<title>By: JOSHUA</title>
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		<dc:creator>JOSHUA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>People as you are aware, i dont like pointing out fingers and referring names hence i will not reply to comments of few cow crazy shitheads, i dont know how many times that person slept with cows but anyways coming back to bone of contention, these CEOs are our own people so we need to take responsibility of their actions . As far as cheap workers and profit is concerned, this is the basics of any market, if you are getting services at par, you will go for the cheaper one, whats wrong in that. The problem is that these people are helpless as they can only show their frustration of loosing jobs because of their incapability. People are working and earning good , inefficient people are loosing jobs.Moreover as far as recession is concerned , stupid uneducated people still dont know the actual reason behind it and that is downfall of whole banking system as they were unable to recover huge debts that we american have owed. As banks are the backbone of the economy, all sectors suffered and led to recession. Obama rightly said, we need to stop living on credits , we need to compete with Bangalore and Beijing, there is noway to curb this competition …..plz stop blaming CEOs, Indians, Chinese etc..pull up your socks guys..this blamegame is worth of nothing and because of few people we are loosing our dignity. 

We are not a greedy nation, we are a stupid nation if we realize it late that technology has brought world on the same page and competency level has increased so stop blaming foregners. Do you guys think that people like cow crazy shitheads are suitable for customer service, they cant think about anything else except shit.We have many of those and this is the reason we are loosing these jobs to foreigners apart from cost factor.And people who are claiming that Americans are very good at english need to know the facts. America is a land of immigrants, there are spanioles,chinese,and people of different languages. Actually problem is at the root level that is our culture and tradition.People are getting married at a very young age, getting divorced three to four times their lifetime and relying heavily on child benefits and social security. Young girls are getting attracted towards porn industry because there is no other industry that we are flourishing in.70% of Americans quit studying after high school. Crime rate is very high as compared to EU.We lack in highly educated people hence we recruit outsiders(scientists) for NASA, doctors, engineers etc. As i mentioned before we are highly dependent on outsiders and hence we should be thankful to them because what we are today is because of useful contribution by all of them.Historically all Americans are immigrants . English is just a language, talent surpasses everything so donot rely on english language rather enhance your skills buddies. Regards</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People as you are aware, i dont like pointing out fingers and referring names hence i will not reply to comments of few cow crazy shitheads, i dont know how many times that person slept with cows but anyways coming back to bone of contention, these CEOs are our own people so we need to take responsibility of their actions . As far as cheap workers and profit is concerned, this is the basics of any market, if you are getting services at par, you will go for the cheaper one, whats wrong in that. The problem is that these people are helpless as they can only show their frustration of loosing jobs because of their incapability. People are working and earning good , inefficient people are loosing jobs.Moreover as far as recession is concerned , stupid uneducated people still dont know the actual reason behind it and that is downfall of whole banking system as they were unable to recover huge debts that we american have owed. As banks are the backbone of the economy, all sectors suffered and led to recession. Obama rightly said, we need to stop living on credits , we need to compete with Bangalore and Beijing, there is noway to curb this competition …..plz stop blaming CEOs, Indians, Chinese etc..pull up your socks guys..this blamegame is worth of nothing and because of few people we are loosing our dignity. </p>
<p>We are not a greedy nation, we are a stupid nation if we realize it late that technology has brought world on the same page and competency level has increased so stop blaming foregners. Do you guys think that people like cow crazy shitheads are suitable for customer service, they cant think about anything else except shit.We have many of those and this is the reason we are loosing these jobs to foreigners apart from cost factor.And people who are claiming that Americans are very good at english need to know the facts. America is a land of immigrants, there are spanioles,chinese,and people of different languages. Actually problem is at the root level that is our culture and tradition.People are getting married at a very young age, getting divorced three to four times their lifetime and relying heavily on child benefits and social security. Young girls are getting attracted towards porn industry because there is no other industry that we are flourishing in.70% of Americans quit studying after high school. Crime rate is very high as compared to EU.We lack in highly educated people hence we recruit outsiders(scientists) for NASA, doctors, engineers etc. As i mentioned before we are highly dependent on outsiders and hence we should be thankful to them because what we are today is because of useful contribution by all of them.Historically all Americans are immigrants . English is just a language, talent surpasses everything so donot rely on english language rather enhance your skills buddies. Regards</p>
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		<title>By: HateDots</title>
		<link>http://www.moneybluebook.com/outsourcing-call-center-jobs-to-india-leads-to-bad-customer-service/comment-page-2/#comment-95499</link>
		<dc:creator>HateDots</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Joshua, I have never heard as much bs in my life as your post.  There&#039;s enough bs in your latest ramblings to fertilize every garden in the world.   Let&#039;s look at these statements shall we?

 1. Indians are doing terrific job and we appreciate that whole heartedly.  - If you call mumbling unintelligbly and using &quot;reboot your wodem&quot; as terrific

2. Few of us who are arrogant need to change our attitude towards them. This marks a bad impression of our culture on them and on the whole world. - No arrogance here and really don&#039;t care what a bunch of dotheads in a third world rathole think anyway.  The rest of the English speaking world hates dealing with them same as the USA

3. We need to be polite with them over the phone and should speak slowly as we have different accents at different locations. - No we need to have AMERICANS who speak AMERICAN ENGLISH in customer service jobs instead of dotheads who can&#039;t speak understandable English.   

4. We need to be more courteous. - Courtesy goes out the door when you have to repeat stuff over and over or deal with a dothead who runs through the same line of stock answers rather than truly listening to the problem.

5. We need to stop incur debts. - Sound advice but if we had jobs here instead of being sent to a bunch of Sandjaya Goopta Dotheads we wouldn&#039;t have high unemployment either.  

6.Indians are blessed with politeness, courtesy and kindness hence India is the customer service hub of the world. - Bullshit,  they work cheaper and CEOs don&#039;t give a damn about anything but profits.  It damn sure isn&#039;t for your great customer service skills.  

7. We should not feel proud of english language as we dont own it and we have not mastered it yet. - We understand English as spoken by Americans or even British,  but the mumblings coming from you dotheads isn&#039;t anything like OUR English.

8. We should refrain from racial slurrs because it just adds on to our blunt behaviour. -We don&#039;t like dealing with you dotheads on the phone or anywhere else because your programming skills are shit and your customer service skills are shit.  Got that Dothead Boy??

9. What we are today is because of their good work be it here in America or there in India. We should be thankful to them and should respect them.  - We don&#039;t owe shit to some third world, rat infested pisshole of a country like India.   Thanks but NO THANKS for taking our jobs and doing a totally suck ass job at the ones you took.

10. We need to understand, our downfall is because of our own culture and tradition not because of them. Today the world is changing and our role as well. We should behave as matured citizens of a developed nation and develop our own skills rather than blaming others. -  Downfall is due to CEOs who only care about profits and don&#039;t give a damn about their own countrymen.   We can do anything better than you dotheads when it comes to IT.   You are verminous filth who are a pestilence on the world.

11. Outsourcing cannot be stopped but can only be improved if companies involved provides proper training to its employees. - The only way to improve it is to get rid of dotheads.  They are the problem because no amount of training will ever produce quality work from them.  They still suck.

12. Customer service is not our cup of tea, let them do the good work. - Bullshit.  AMERICANS should be providing customer service for AMERICANS.   

13. Abusing people over the phone or boycotting services is a stupid and puposeless attempt. - If you weren&#039;t so damn incompetent you probably wouldn&#039;t have to deal with the abuse.  

14. The whole world is blaming us for the economic recession, we ought to take responsibility and sort it out internally -  If they didn&#039;t send the damn jobs to your shithole of a country, we probably wouldn&#039;t have a recession. It damn sure would eliminate the high unemployment.  

15. Our policies have made our people useless , inefficient and unsuitable for jobs involving specified skillset…need to make needful changes. - Once again, Sandjaya Goopta Dothead,  it&#039;s people more concerned with profits and stockholders who were making the decision to outsource.  It sure wasn&#039;t for your efficiency or whatever the hell you call it.  Oh and what is &quot;needful changes&quot;?  You sound more like dothead on that one.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Joshua, I have never heard as much bs in my life as your post.  There&#8217;s enough bs in your latest ramblings to fertilize every garden in the world.   Let&#8217;s look at these statements shall we?</p>
<p> 1. Indians are doing terrific job and we appreciate that whole heartedly.  &#8211; If you call mumbling unintelligbly and using &#8220;reboot your wodem&#8221; as terrific</p>
<p>2. Few of us who are arrogant need to change our attitude towards them. This marks a bad impression of our culture on them and on the whole world. &#8211; No arrogance here and really don&#8217;t care what a bunch of dotheads in a third world rathole think anyway.  The rest of the English speaking world hates dealing with them same as the USA</p>
<p>3. We need to be polite with them over the phone and should speak slowly as we have different accents at different locations. &#8211; No we need to have AMERICANS who speak AMERICAN ENGLISH in customer service jobs instead of dotheads who can&#8217;t speak understandable English.   </p>
<p>4. We need to be more courteous. &#8211; Courtesy goes out the door when you have to repeat stuff over and over or deal with a dothead who runs through the same line of stock answers rather than truly listening to the problem.</p>
<p>5. We need to stop incur debts. &#8211; Sound advice but if we had jobs here instead of being sent to a bunch of Sandjaya Goopta Dotheads we wouldn&#8217;t have high unemployment either.  </p>
<p>6.Indians are blessed with politeness, courtesy and kindness hence India is the customer service hub of the world. &#8211; Bullshit,  they work cheaper and CEOs don&#8217;t give a damn about anything but profits.  It damn sure isn&#8217;t for your great customer service skills.  </p>
<p>7. We should not feel proud of english language as we dont own it and we have not mastered it yet. &#8211; We understand English as spoken by Americans or even British,  but the mumblings coming from you dotheads isn&#8217;t anything like OUR English.</p>
<p>8. We should refrain from racial slurrs because it just adds on to our blunt behaviour. -We don&#8217;t like dealing with you dotheads on the phone or anywhere else because your programming skills are shit and your customer service skills are shit.  Got that Dothead Boy??</p>
<p>9. What we are today is because of their good work be it here in America or there in India. We should be thankful to them and should respect them.  &#8211; We don&#8217;t owe shit to some third world, rat infested pisshole of a country like India.   Thanks but NO THANKS for taking our jobs and doing a totally suck ass job at the ones you took.</p>
<p>10. We need to understand, our downfall is because of our own culture and tradition not because of them. Today the world is changing and our role as well. We should behave as matured citizens of a developed nation and develop our own skills rather than blaming others. &#8211;  Downfall is due to CEOs who only care about profits and don&#8217;t give a damn about their own countrymen.   We can do anything better than you dotheads when it comes to IT.   You are verminous filth who are a pestilence on the world.</p>
<p>11. Outsourcing cannot be stopped but can only be improved if companies involved provides proper training to its employees. &#8211; The only way to improve it is to get rid of dotheads.  They are the problem because no amount of training will ever produce quality work from them.  They still suck.</p>
<p>12. Customer service is not our cup of tea, let them do the good work. &#8211; Bullshit.  AMERICANS should be providing customer service for AMERICANS.   </p>
<p>13. Abusing people over the phone or boycotting services is a stupid and puposeless attempt. &#8211; If you weren&#8217;t so damn incompetent you probably wouldn&#8217;t have to deal with the abuse.  </p>
<p>14. The whole world is blaming us for the economic recession, we ought to take responsibility and sort it out internally &#8211;  If they didn&#8217;t send the damn jobs to your shithole of a country, we probably wouldn&#8217;t have a recession. It damn sure would eliminate the high unemployment.  </p>
<p>15. Our policies have made our people useless , inefficient and unsuitable for jobs involving specified skillset…need to make needful changes. &#8211; Once again, Sandjaya Goopta Dothead,  it&#8217;s people more concerned with profits and stockholders who were making the decision to outsource.  It sure wasn&#8217;t for your efficiency or whatever the hell you call it.  Oh and what is &#8220;needful changes&#8221;?  You sound more like dothead on that one.</p>
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		<title>By: JohnR</title>
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		<dc:creator>JohnR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m with Jason on the post by Joshua.  The typed English is not that of a regular English speaking person.  I also agree on what was said about what Americans resent.  At some point anytime we dialed a customer service line the person answering had a hard-to-understand accent but said his name was Bob.  Our country has gone through one of the worst recessions in almost 70 years and we have a high unemployment rate.  So many of us feel that these jobs should return to US to the people who originally worked them.  My experiences with overseas call centers has been less than pleasant because of the language barriers.   I hate having to repeat myself or ask the rep to repeat themselves.  By the end of the call we have both repeated ourselves numerous times and the experience is nothing short of tedious.  I understand corporations exist to make money for the shareholders and if it is profitable to hire within this country they will do so.  I also understand that the desire to link the entire world with the internet has led to the technology that enabled overseas call centers.  Outsourcing began within the country and soon spread overseas to India due to two things: cheaper labor force and a large English-speaking population.   In some ways, the American people have brought this on themselves.  We are a greedy nation who wants to get as much as we can for the least amount of money.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m with Jason on the post by Joshua.  The typed English is not that of a regular English speaking person.  I also agree on what was said about what Americans resent.  At some point anytime we dialed a customer service line the person answering had a hard-to-understand accent but said his name was Bob.  Our country has gone through one of the worst recessions in almost 70 years and we have a high unemployment rate.  So many of us feel that these jobs should return to US to the people who originally worked them.  My experiences with overseas call centers has been less than pleasant because of the language barriers.   I hate having to repeat myself or ask the rep to repeat themselves.  By the end of the call we have both repeated ourselves numerous times and the experience is nothing short of tedious.  I understand corporations exist to make money for the shareholders and if it is profitable to hire within this country they will do so.  I also understand that the desire to link the entire world with the internet has led to the technology that enabled overseas call centers.  Outsourcing began within the country and soon spread overseas to India due to two things: cheaper labor force and a large English-speaking population.   In some ways, the American people have brought this on themselves.  We are a greedy nation who wants to get as much as we can for the least amount of money.</p>
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		<title>By: Jason</title>
		<link>http://www.moneybluebook.com/outsourcing-call-center-jobs-to-india-leads-to-bad-customer-service/comment-page-2/#comment-95367</link>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Joshua, James Jenkin, Mr Sharma - 

I don&#039;t know what you are trying to pull here but you aren&#039;t fooling anyone.  After having read the comments carefully and scrutinized the consistently sloppy English allegedly written by these three commentators, I have to conclude that it appears you are all the same person - one in the same. Are you some Indian guy trying to play pretend to stir up controversy and gather sympathy? Why do you pose as &quot;Joshua&quot; and &quot;James Jenkins&quot; and pretend to be an American? It&#039;s quite clear you are not an American citizen and do not reside in the U.S., so please stop posing as one and stop pretending to espouse our views. You do not speak for us.

Americans don&#039;t have anything against Indians, foreigners, or accents. We just resent having our jobs shipped overseas to low cost outsourced workers, and are angry to hear news of customer service jobs being taken over by people who we can&#039;t linguistically understand.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Joshua, James Jenkin, Mr Sharma &#8211; </p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know what you are trying to pull here but you aren&#8217;t fooling anyone.  After having read the comments carefully and scrutinized the consistently sloppy English allegedly written by these three commentators, I have to conclude that it appears you are all the same person &#8211; one in the same. Are you some Indian guy trying to play pretend to stir up controversy and gather sympathy? Why do you pose as &#8220;Joshua&#8221; and &#8220;James Jenkins&#8221; and pretend to be an American? It&#8217;s quite clear you are not an American citizen and do not reside in the U.S., so please stop posing as one and stop pretending to espouse our views. You do not speak for us.</p>
<p>Americans don&#8217;t have anything against Indians, foreigners, or accents. We just resent having our jobs shipped overseas to low cost outsourced workers, and are angry to hear news of customer service jobs being taken over by people who we can&#8217;t linguistically understand.</p>
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		<title>By: JOSHUA</title>
		<link>http://www.moneybluebook.com/outsourcing-call-center-jobs-to-india-leads-to-bad-customer-service/comment-page-2/#comment-95363</link>
		<dc:creator>JOSHUA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think things have settled down now. There has been heated conversation between many of us and this comment section has attracted many. Let us now conclude from this comment section and end this topic with a positive note. I have concluded following important points from comments of all:

1. Indians are doing terrific job and we appreciate that whole heartedly.
2. Few of us who are arrogant need to change our attitude towards them. This marks a bad impression of our culture on them and on the whole world.
3. We need to be polite with them over the phone and should speak slowly as we have different accents at different locations.
4. We need to be more courteous. 
5. We need to stop incur debts.
6.Indians are blessed with politeness, courtesy and kindness hence  India is the customer service hub of the world.
7. We should not feel proud of english language as we dont own it and we have not mastered it yet. 
8. We should refrain from racial slurrs because it just adds on to our blunt behaviour.
9. What we are today is because of their good work be it here in America or there in India. We should be thankful to them and should respect them.
10. We need to understand, our downfall is because of our own culture and tradition not because of them. Today the world is changing and our role as well. We should behave as matured citizens of a developed nation and develop our own skills rather than blaming others.
11. Outsourcing cannot be stopped but can only be improved if companies involved provides proper training to its employees.
12. Customer service is not our cup of tea, let them do the good work.
13. Abusing people over the phone or boycotting services is a stupid and puposeless attempt.
14. The whole world is blaming us for the economic recession, we ought to take responsibility and sort it out internally
15. Our policies have made our people useless , inefficient and unsuitable for jobs involving specified skillset...need to make needful changes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think things have settled down now. There has been heated conversation between many of us and this comment section has attracted many. Let us now conclude from this comment section and end this topic with a positive note. I have concluded following important points from comments of all:</p>
<p>1. Indians are doing terrific job and we appreciate that whole heartedly.<br />
2. Few of us who are arrogant need to change our attitude towards them. This marks a bad impression of our culture on them and on the whole world.<br />
3. We need to be polite with them over the phone and should speak slowly as we have different accents at different locations.<br />
4. We need to be more courteous.<br />
5. We need to stop incur debts.<br />
6.Indians are blessed with politeness, courtesy and kindness hence  India is the customer service hub of the world.<br />
7. We should not feel proud of english language as we dont own it and we have not mastered it yet.<br />
8. We should refrain from racial slurrs because it just adds on to our blunt behaviour.<br />
9. What we are today is because of their good work be it here in America or there in India. We should be thankful to them and should respect them.<br />
10. We need to understand, our downfall is because of our own culture and tradition not because of them. Today the world is changing and our role as well. We should behave as matured citizens of a developed nation and develop our own skills rather than blaming others.<br />
11. Outsourcing cannot be stopped but can only be improved if companies involved provides proper training to its employees.<br />
12. Customer service is not our cup of tea, let them do the good work.<br />
13. Abusing people over the phone or boycotting services is a stupid and puposeless attempt.<br />
14. The whole world is blaming us for the economic recession, we ought to take responsibility and sort it out internally<br />
15. Our policies have made our people useless , inefficient and unsuitable for jobs involving specified skillset&#8230;need to make needful changes.</p>
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		<title>By: JOSHUA</title>
		<link>http://www.moneybluebook.com/outsourcing-call-center-jobs-to-india-leads-to-bad-customer-service/comment-page-2/#comment-94640</link>
		<dc:creator>JOSHUA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is to inform each and everyone involved  here, please maintain dignity of this blog. I can see that people are fighting like kids, please refrain from using racial slurrs and abusing cultural integrity.  Pointing out  fingers at others is very easy but before doing that we should look into ourselves. there are people who have used foul language and then feel sorry for the same , this amazes me the most.I dont know what they are trying to prove about their own behaviour and culture which they cant hide properly. Moreover, people interested in deciding identities of others are fake themselves because they have accepted that americans are not good at verbal or written english and i feel sorry for them. also for people who are questioning faith of others should check their stories first.No practice is perfect in this world.I feel sorry for all those who are deviating from the topic just because of their personal interests. 

coming back to topic... America has been dependent on talents of the outside world. Its time to nurture our own talent else we will starve for talented people and our dependency would increase infinitely. We are thankful to people of India and Phillipines for having absorbed most of that requirement. Our problem is our tradition of incurring debts due to which whole economic structure of our country has collapsed. Signs of improvement are there but we ought to change our lifestyle rather than giving marks to indians for their good work. American businessmen are not fools that even their own customer are suffering and they would continue offshoring their businesses. Customer satisfaction is of prime importance for any business anywhere in this world.So let us understand limitations of businesses first rather than commenting on their profit making endeavors. This world is a small community, lets not fight and feel jealous about indians and work together for the betterment of society and its people. Regards</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is to inform each and everyone involved  here, please maintain dignity of this blog. I can see that people are fighting like kids, please refrain from using racial slurrs and abusing cultural integrity.  Pointing out  fingers at others is very easy but before doing that we should look into ourselves. there are people who have used foul language and then feel sorry for the same , this amazes me the most.I dont know what they are trying to prove about their own behaviour and culture which they cant hide properly. Moreover, people interested in deciding identities of others are fake themselves because they have accepted that americans are not good at verbal or written english and i feel sorry for them. also for people who are questioning faith of others should check their stories first.No practice is perfect in this world.I feel sorry for all those who are deviating from the topic just because of their personal interests. </p>
<p>coming back to topic&#8230; America has been dependent on talents of the outside world. Its time to nurture our own talent else we will starve for talented people and our dependency would increase infinitely. We are thankful to people of India and Phillipines for having absorbed most of that requirement. Our problem is our tradition of incurring debts due to which whole economic structure of our country has collapsed. Signs of improvement are there but we ought to change our lifestyle rather than giving marks to indians for their good work. American businessmen are not fools that even their own customer are suffering and they would continue offshoring their businesses. Customer satisfaction is of prime importance for any business anywhere in this world.So let us understand limitations of businesses first rather than commenting on their profit making endeavors. This world is a small community, lets not fight and feel jealous about indians and work together for the betterment of society and its people. Regards</p>
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		<title>By: Saarthak</title>
		<link>http://www.moneybluebook.com/outsourcing-call-center-jobs-to-india-leads-to-bad-customer-service/comment-page-2/#comment-94448</link>
		<dc:creator>Saarthak</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hatedots, are you calling me Sandjay Goopta? Thats not my name by the way. I don&#039;t know where you picked that from. And point taken. Go ahead and convince fellow Americans to get into customer service massively since u and ur kind are the best in it. I wish you all the best in your endeavour. But I do wish you the worst for your other wishes. You&#039;re one sadistic American out here</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hatedots, are you calling me Sandjay Goopta? Thats not my name by the way. I don&#8217;t know where you picked that from. And point taken. Go ahead and convince fellow Americans to get into customer service massively since u and ur kind are the best in it. I wish you all the best in your endeavour. But I do wish you the worst for your other wishes. You&#8217;re one sadistic American out here</p>
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		<title>By: Mr sharma</title>
		<link>http://www.moneybluebook.com/outsourcing-call-center-jobs-to-india-leads-to-bad-customer-service/comment-page-2/#comment-94438</link>
		<dc:creator>Mr sharma</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>jenkins, what you said is correct you never typed unncessary comments about Indians and i appreciate that you know your limits. Do not mess with Indians and you better know your limits.As far as disrespect or Insult goes, americans dont even respect their parents or elderly so expectations ant too much,thats in your blood and i dont mind that.Value addtion to a comment that makes sense is an inevitable phenomenon, moreover leaving turd material online is no big deal for you guys.So keep doing the good work and thats what you are known for.

Hateshitdots, do not teach something to someone if you yourself are a learner. Two or three electric shocks at the center might help you.if that doesnt solve the problem then donot eat what you shit. You seem to be overobsessed by cows shit.start eating it, that might change your configuration. You are a manufacturing defect, cure is difficult but nothing is impossible.Come to india and we will open up your pores.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>jenkins, what you said is correct you never typed unncessary comments about Indians and i appreciate that you know your limits. Do not mess with Indians and you better know your limits.As far as disrespect or Insult goes, americans dont even respect their parents or elderly so expectations ant too much,thats in your blood and i dont mind that.Value addtion to a comment that makes sense is an inevitable phenomenon, moreover leaving turd material online is no big deal for you guys.So keep doing the good work and thats what you are known for.</p>
<p>Hateshitdots, do not teach something to someone if you yourself are a learner. Two or three electric shocks at the center might help you.if that doesnt solve the problem then donot eat what you shit. You seem to be overobsessed by cows shit.start eating it, that might change your configuration. You are a manufacturing defect, cure is difficult but nothing is impossible.Come to india and we will open up your pores.</p>
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		<title>By: HateDots</title>
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		<dc:creator>HateDots</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Saarthak,  I have enough education to know that Americans are better than you and your kind when it comes to providing customer service for Americans.   Get the picture, Sandjaya Goopta?  Perhaps you should have lived closer to Union Carbide.  Would have made you a very pleasant person.  

Have a good day yourself and maybe take a bath for a change.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Saarthak,  I have enough education to know that Americans are better than you and your kind when it comes to providing customer service for Americans.   Get the picture, Sandjaya Goopta?  Perhaps you should have lived closer to Union Carbide.  Would have made you a very pleasant person.  </p>
<p>Have a good day yourself and maybe take a bath for a change.</p>
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		<title>By: Saarthak</title>
		<link>http://www.moneybluebook.com/outsourcing-call-center-jobs-to-india-leads-to-bad-customer-service/comment-page-2/#comment-94433</link>
		<dc:creator>Saarthak</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hatedots, I&#039;ll try and be civil as per the wishes of the blog author. I have to agree with you, my customer service skills are crap, and thats because I&#039;m not a customer service rep and neither did I claim to be one. Please don&#039;t think that every Indian who comments on this blog post works in a call centre that serves America. Thats stupid.

Your dreams of having to see a mushroom cloud over India are so childish, that I wonder what sort of education you received at school or college (if you ever went to one). Perhaps you should become a vegetarian and have more mushrooms in your diet, and stop your obesession with cows. Will make you a more pleasant person. 

Have a good day</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hatedots, I&#8217;ll try and be civil as per the wishes of the blog author. I have to agree with you, my customer service skills are crap, and thats because I&#8217;m not a customer service rep and neither did I claim to be one. Please don&#8217;t think that every Indian who comments on this blog post works in a call centre that serves America. Thats stupid.</p>
<p>Your dreams of having to see a mushroom cloud over India are so childish, that I wonder what sort of education you received at school or college (if you ever went to one). Perhaps you should become a vegetarian and have more mushrooms in your diet, and stop your obesession with cows. Will make you a more pleasant person. </p>
<p>Have a good day</p>
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