I can see why people are upset over calling a local company and getting routed halfway around the world to speak with someone that has a thick accent or might not know exactly what your situation is, but...deal with it.
That's where the company you are choosing to shop from has decided to outsource their telephone jobs to. It sucks, but if you don't like it, either don't call the company or don't shop their.
On the other side of things, those Indians need to get a bit tougher. I've worked as a debt collector in the subprime (eg. bad credit) market and I had to deal with loads of jerks who would think it's clever to yell, scream, blow air horns, and generally treat me like a jerk. But there was never an incident of ANYONE I knew of getting upset or having a heart attack or getting an ulcer from the job. You just need to have a tougher hide than most for telephone work.
As a father myself, the best advice I can give you is threefold:
1) Get sleep when you can, whether it's in line at the DMV or waiting in traffic. 2) Score extra points with the Mrs. by offering to feed and change the baby every once in awhile at 3 am. 3) When you raise your son, keep in mind that you must be as supple as a reed, but not rigid as a cedar.
Kids do stupid stuff. I myself tipped a porta-john or two when I was a lad. Had I known that it could possibly result in someone being paralyzed, I probably wouldn't have done it.
It's funny that Sid insists on complaining about the education system in America when the entire article is about adults having poor math skills IN BRITAIN.
Maybe if he had better teachers when he attended school he'd have better reading comprehension...
I, for one, welcome our new search engine overlord. I’d like to remind her that as a trusted internet personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in her underground data mines.
On the other hand, I'm not going to raise a special needs child for someone else, so if the parents are willing to let their offspring be subjected to mild torture I say let them.
Not sure about the laws in Europe, but here in the states, if someone is NOT carded regardless of how old they look, the store can lose it's liquor license.
Sometimes that means the store has to close down. Grocery stores and liquor stores cannot be expected to run without a liquor license.
If some old guy feels a bit hassled because some clerk is DOING THEIR JOB, he should suck it up. Maybe he cut corners and did a shoddy job as an insurance firm regional manager, but some people actually do what they're supposed to do.
I call BS, I used to work in a warehouse, running my butt off to make sure trucks got loaded all day and once a week I would down nine to ten redbulls in the span of about five minutes. I would experience a gigantic energy rush, start shaking a little bit and had to pee like a horse every five minutes, but aside from that (and some eye jitters) I was fine.
I'm glad that he found religion, although it is a little sad that he didn't find it until he thought that he was dying. Of course, on the other hand, if he was really an atheist he wasn't very strong willed. I've seen too many people claim to be atheist and then pray to some divine power when the going gets tough. It reminds me of convicted felons in prison who "find jesus" after they've committed some really horrible acts.
There's nothing wrong with being an atheist or having religion, just have some freaking conviction.
That's where the company you are choosing to shop from has decided to outsource their telephone jobs to. It sucks, but if you don't like it, either don't call the company or don't shop their.
On the other side of things, those Indians need to get a bit tougher. I've worked as a debt collector in the subprime (eg. bad credit) market and I had to deal with loads of jerks who would think it's clever to yell, scream, blow air horns, and generally treat me like a jerk. But there was never an incident of ANYONE I knew of getting upset or having a heart attack or getting an ulcer from the job. You just need to have a tougher hide than most for telephone work.
1) Get sleep when you can, whether it's in line at the DMV or waiting in traffic.
2) Score extra points with the Mrs. by offering to feed and change the baby every once in awhile at 3 am.
3) When you raise your son, keep in mind that you must be as supple as a reed, but not rigid as a cedar.
Maybe if he had better teachers when he attended school he'd have better reading comprehension...
On the other hand, I'm not going to raise a special needs child for someone else, so if the parents are willing to let their offspring be subjected to mild torture I say let them.
Sometimes that means the store has to close down. Grocery stores and liquor stores cannot be expected to run without a liquor license.
If some old guy feels a bit hassled because some clerk is DOING THEIR JOB, he should suck it up. Maybe he cut corners and did a shoddy job as an insurance firm regional manager, but some people actually do what they're supposed to do.
There's nothing wrong with being an atheist or having religion, just have some freaking conviction.