I can't stand Indian accents

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: G Wizard
i had a boss tell me that couldn't stand Vietnamese or those tonal languages.

he said it makes his 'blood boil' to hear those languages spoken, to the point where he has to leave somewhere where people are speaking it.
I was sort of taken a back at first and he apologized 'for telling me that'
He is a Vietnam War vet...so slack was granted.

I have several long-time friends who react in exactly the same way, for exactly the same reason. I'm not condoning bigotry, but I'm glad you cut your boss some slack. Their visceral unease is just more collateral damage from that dirty, ugly war.

 

[markgm]

That sounds racist, yes?

 

[HardcoreRobot]

nearly all accents annoy me

 

[dandruff]

Originally posted by: Mahaguru
Hello saltboy, please give me a few minutes while I am looking into this issue.

It is looking like you are not understanding Indian accents, is this correct?

I am understanding, please give me a few minutes while I am looking into this issue.

priceless !

:laugh:

 

[Vonkhan]

Originally posted by: Deeko

Originally posted by: Vonkhan
Why should Indians change their accents? You can take your business elsewhere if you don't like it ...

My guess is, if you are supposed to be speaking English, you should be able to speak it in an understandable fashion.

There's a difference between an indian accent, and a thick indian accent that is very difficult to understand, especially over the phone. It is EXTREMELY poor customer service for a company to employee people like that. It's not the fault of the person, it's the fault of their company.

Indians have no problem understanding each other ... so why should they change their accents? It IS the fault of "the person" - no one's holding a gun to his head and saying "do business with us Indians or die"

You're doing business with an Indian company - either deal with it or walk away. It's a free world - don't expect people to change for you without providing any incentive to do so.

But I guess some people are born to b*tch and whine about stuff on the internet rather than confront the source of their problem

 

[f1r3s1d3]

I don't like accents period, so, werd.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: f1r3s1d3
I don't like accents period, so, werd.

Everyone has an accent. Some simply deviate from the putatory "standard" more than others, is all.

 

[RichUK]

I bank with Barclays Bank and unfortunately for me they?ve outsourced all their customer service to India.

I almost break down and cry when I have to call them up and try to understand the customer service representative on the other end of the line. I avoid calling them at all costs, but when I have to I get frustrated to no end. It really fucks me off because it?s my god damn bank account I?m calling to discuss!

Umpteen times I?ve called the Barclays customer service and wasted 20+ minutes and gotten absolutely nowhere.

Because of this I?m looking to change to a new bank (or building society as it were) as they have their customer service centre based in England, thank god!

It angers me just thinking about some the experience I?ve had.

 

[Oyeve]

I dont mind any accent except a Boston accent. GOD its so freaking annoying! Maine also.

 

[RichUK]

Although, don?t get me wrong, England/Britain has some of the most fucked up accents you?ll ever come across ? thank god I?ll never have to discuss my business over the phone with any of them (northern accents)!

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: jai6638
haha... Hats off to you for understanding the Chinese accent.. Now thats one accent that I really find hard to understand!! Their inflections are all over the place.

EDIT: I'd like to add that there's not a single kind of Indian accent.. Depending on which part of India the person is from, the accent differs. I'd say the difference is more pronounced than the difference between a Midwestern and Northeastern accent.

Yeah. Calculus was great for me: Calc I, strong Italian accent. Calc II, strong Chinese accent.
The first two weeks or so of each class was spent mainly trying to characterize the speech patterns, to have a chance at figuring out what was being said.

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: Vonkhan

Originally posted by: Deeko

Originally posted by: Vonkhan
Why should Indians change their accents? You can take your business elsewhere if you don't like it ...

My guess is, if you are supposed to be speaking English, you should be able to speak it in an understandable fashion.

There's a difference between an indian accent, and a thick indian accent that is very difficult to understand, especially over the phone. It is EXTREMELY poor customer service for a company to employee people like that. It's not the fault of the person, it's the fault of their company.

Indians have no problem understanding each other ... so why should they change their accents? It IS the fault of "the person" - no one's holding a gun to his head and saying "do business with us Indians or die"

You're doing business with an Indian company - either deal with it or walk away. It's a free world - don't expect people to change for you without providing any incentive to do so.

But I guess some people are born to b*tch and whine about stuff on the internet rather than confront the source of their problem

Interesting. So when an American company hires a customer support team for it's American customers......that company shouldn't hire people that speak a form of English American's can understand? Your logic is infallible.

I'm not saying any Indians need to learn to speak unaccented English. I'm not saying I'm forced to do business with a company that hires them. I'm saying, and you simply cannot deny this without being a moron, is that it is an extremely poor display of customer service by said company to do so. And yes, I have stopped doing business with companies that I know I will have to deal with over the phone, if I know I can't understand the people on the other end.

It's a nice horse you're on though, how did you ever get it so high?

 

[Capt Caveman]

Wow!

 

[ChaoZ]

Definitely not as bad as a Vietnamese accent.

 

[Raizinman]

I was getting a physical exam a while back and there was a mole on my back that my doctor was a bit concerned with. He asked me if I minded if he brought in his associate to have a look. I said, sure. Well, he called this doctor and after a while he came in, a bit more than disgusted for bothering him. He leaned over me and made some comment like 'I do not know for sure'. I really didn't like his attitude and said to him. Hi doc, I thiink I know you. He looked over at me and said, I do not think so. I said, sure I do, I spoke to you last week on the phone at Dell support. He stomped out of the room. Me and my doc had a good laugh.

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: Raizinman
I was getting a physical exam a while back and there was a mole on my back that my doctor was a bit concerned with. He asked me if I minded if he brought in his associate to have a look. I said, sure. Well, he called this doctor and after a while he came in, a bit more than disgusted for bothering him. He leaned over me and made some comment like 'I do not know for sure'. I really didn't like his attitude and said to him. Hi doc, I thiink I know you. He looked over at me and said, I do not think so. I said, sure I do, I spoke to you last week on the phone at Dell support. He stomped out of the room. Me and my doc had a good laugh.

Stupid joke.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: SaltBoy
I have nothing against Indians as a people or as a culture, but good grief, can you PLEASE make your accents harder to understand?

I have no problem comprehending English, German, Russian, Southern, Hispanic, Japanese, African, Scandanavian, New England, Chinese, French, Arabian, Bronx, Italian, and even Ebonic accents. But I have to crawl into a corner and weep in the fetal position after I speak to somebody with an Indian accent.

I think that's why a lot of people have been frustrated with all the outsourcing going on to India. It has nothing to do with India and/or their people, or the attempts by corporations to be greedy and save money, but rather it's the fact that we can't freaking understand what the Indian people say when they attempt to speak English.

Yes, I'm very frustrated with a call that I just had with one of my clients. STOP MAKING EVERY SENTENCE SOUND LIKE IT'S A QUESTION! GAAAHHH!! :|

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[RapidSnail]

Originally posted by: dabuddha
:roll:

Our first Indian!! Strike a nerve??

 

[Vonkhan]

Originally posted by: Deeko
Interesting. So when an American company hires a customer support team for it's American customers......that company shouldn't hire people that speak a form of English American's can understand? Your logic is infallible.

I'm not saying any Indians need to learn to speak unaccented English. I'm not saying I'm forced to do business with a company that hires them. I'm saying, and you simply cannot deny this without being a moron, is that it is an extremely poor display of customer service by said company to do so. And yes, I have stopped doing business with companies that I know I will have to deal with over the phone, if I know I can't understand the people on the other end.

It's a nice horse you're on though, how did you ever get it so high?

Do you even a clue on how the process works? Do your research on how American companies choose the Indian companies whom they outsource to. Are trying to tell me that XYZ American company isn't AWARE that their outsourced CSRs have an accent that most Americans can't understand. To put it simply, there are in-depth models that compare the amount if revenue lost vs. savings based upon past figures for customer satisfaction, closures, complaints, etc. All these are made available to the American company. For most companies, it's worth it to have a few irate customers while savings $s ... they don't care that Mr. SaltBoy or Ms. Deeko is crying on ATOT.

If you don't have enough $s to move the needle on the company's charts - guess what, capitalism ftw

And yes, I like my horse. It has an Indian accent.

 

[QED]

I don't mind an accent, on anyone-- at least they have made an effort to speak our language.

Now what does piss me off is seeing just about every sign at Lowes and Home Depot with Spanish all over it-- in some cases displayed much more prominently than the English.

Oh, and the Boston accent as well too... very annoying.

 

[indamixx99]

At least the accent is good for breaking tension.

*indian here*

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: Vonkhan

Originally posted by: Deeko
Interesting. So when an American company hires a customer support team for it's American customers......that company shouldn't hire people that speak a form of English American's can understand? Your logic is infallible.

I'm not saying any Indians need to learn to speak unaccented English. I'm not saying I'm forced to do business with a company that hires them. I'm saying, and you simply cannot deny this without being a moron, is that it is an extremely poor display of customer service by said company to do so. And yes, I have stopped doing business with companies that I know I will have to deal with over the phone, if I know I can't understand the people on the other end.

It's a nice horse you're on though, how did you ever get it so high?

Do you even a clue on how the process works? Do your research on how American companies choose the Indian companies whom they outsource to. Are trying to tell me that XYZ American company isn't AWARE that their outsourced CSRs have an accent that most Americans can't understand. To put it simply, there are in-depth models that compare the amount if revenue lost vs. savings based upon past figures for customer satisfaction, closures, complaints, etc. All these are made available to the American company. For most companies, it's worth it to have a few irate customers while savings $s ... they don't care that Mr. SaltBoy or Ms. Deeko is crying on ATOT.

If you don't have enough $s to move the needle on the company's charts - guess what, capitalism ftw

And yes, I like my horse. It has an Indian accent.

That's cute. I didn't say it wasn't profitable. Did you read that anywhere? Come on....you can find it, you can't admit you're wrong, so it HAS to be there somewhere!

Face it sport, what I said is accurate, you can't refute it. It's neat the way you changed the subject though. You almost got me. Thiiiiiiis close. The only one crying here is you. I already said I don't have a problem with Indians or their accents.

Your horse is dead, but you might as well keep beating it. Probably makes you feel better after I shot you down again.

 

[acole1]

My A&D prof is Indian and has a decent Indian accent.. but I don't think anyone has problems understanding him. I certainly don't...

Thank you. Come again.

 

[jonks]

I spent 20 minutes in a cab in Louisiana and goddamn me if I got one word in 10 outta that cabbie.

 

[imthebadguy]

buy a q-tip....that may solve ur problem