Tuesday, April 22, 2008

FROM INDIA - CAN I HELP YOU

This is a new article from my local newspaper. A woman living in Indiana near the Illinois border found a credit card lying on the floor of a store. Being a good person she wanted to return it to it's rightful owner. She took it home and called to 800 number on the card and was connected to a person from India whom she could hardly understand. She gave this person the name on the card and after a few moments the reply was, throw the card away, it belongs to a person living in the Netherlands, thank you for calling. End of conversation. The woman was not satisfied with this explanation, so she went to her bank with the card. As it turns out the card did not belong to anyone in the Netherlands but to a person living in South Holland, Illinois. Let's keep farming our work out to other countries big business. In this case you didn't get your money's worth.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

This makes you wanna bang your head against the wall, no?
How stupid and cheap can big companies become?
:(

Nicole
http://nicoleb.org

Rebecca Mecomber said...

No to mention that all these foreigners have our personal ID, like social security numbers and bank account information, at their fingertips.

Elle said...

GAH! I wish they'd stop the call center from New Dehli routine.

Unknown said...

I am so willin to pay a few bucks more for a product in order to allow the company to hire americans. Nice post

SewCrazyDogLady said...

oy vey! Personally I don't begrudge someone in India a job... it's not their fault... but I really hate having to repeat myself mutliple times...

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