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Old 01-18-2008, 01:58 PM   #7
lumberjim
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Originally Posted by Clodfobble View Post
You may be getting fooled. Often supervisors and the better-trained call center workers receive special training to hide their accents. And they have found that a Southern accent is easier for them to pick up than a straight midwestern one. More than once I've had no idea I was talking to India until they said one key word completely wrong and gave themselves away.
No, we talked about it. The manager was in Dallas. And it wasn't Bangladesh....it was ....like the phillipines or something.
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