On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 12:24:32 -0500, Glenn Ashmore
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Larry W4CSC wrote:

I've had to learn two new languages, here in Charleston,
SC.....Spanish, so I can communicate on the street....and Hindi so I
can communicate on the phone.

The thing is Larry, all the rest of us have to learn a new language just
to go to Charleston. :-)


Now, that's not quite true! Geechees have to learn a new language
just to go to the state capital. No wonder they don't think
Charleston is part of South Carolina...hee hee.

Tell you what, we'll start our own reality show. I'll put you in a
car and drive you out to Rockville on the end of Wadmalaw Island, just
south of The City. We'll set a time limit, say 3 weeks, and see if
you can communicate in SC Coastal Gullah that you'd like to come back
to town. Should be very interesting! I fix the church organs out on
the outer islands for the United Methodists, African
Methodist-Episcopal (AME) and Baptists. I already speak Gullah,
Geechee and English. Why do I have to learn more languages??

If we'd had any sense, we'd have let the Gullah speakers take over
secure communications in WW2, as well as the Navahos. The Germans
would have stood no chance at all of reading our secure message
traffic.................and noone would have needed a code book...(c;



Larry W4CSC
POWER is our friend!

I've had to learn two new languages, here in Charleston,
SC.....Spanish, so I can communicate on the street....and Hindi so I
can communicate on the phone.

Wonder how long the country will tolerate this before the mass
killings begin?

I think they will put up will the Anglophones a while longer. We're not in any
serious danger yet. :-)

In a related vein......

There must be something dreadful happening in Africa! Maybe a political
uprising, or a deadly plague that is being kept secret from us all. If you have
any relatives in Africa, encourage them to move
off the continent as soon as possible.

In the last week, I must have received a e-mail dozen notices that oil company
executives had died in Africa, leaving substantial fortunes behind. Believe it
or not, every one of these people listed *me* as next of kin! If so many people
are dying in Africa that a
whole boatload of relatives I never even heard of
have redently kicked the bucket, think what the overall death rate must be.

Truly astonishing.

Guess I should start shopping for that new multi-million dollar yacht. With all
these mysterious oil company relatives dying off, it will be more affordable
than ever.


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Point: Laws against spam in the US won't stop offshore spammers from continuing
their pain in the butt practices.

Gould 0738 wrote:
In a related vein......

There must be something dreadful happening in Africa! Maybe a political
uprising, or a deadly plague that is being kept secret from us all. If you have
any relatives in Africa, encourage them to move
off the continent as soon as possible.

In the last week, I must have received a e-mail dozen notices that oil company
executives had died in Africa, leaving substantial fortunes behind. Believe it
or not, every one of these people listed *me* as next of kin! If so many people
are dying in Africa that a
whole boatload of relatives I never even heard of
have redently kicked the bucket, think what the overall death rate must be.

Truly astonishing.

Guess I should start shopping for that new multi-million dollar yacht. With all
these mysterious oil company relatives dying off, it will be more affordable
than ever.


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Point: Laws against spam in the US won't stop offshore spammers from continuing
their pain in the butt practices.

Suggest you respond with this

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An automatic letter generator allowing you to tell them
about the Great reward they can get by sending you money

Had a call at 8:00 this AM from a collection agency. I had opened a
charge account with 90 days free interest. Couldn't understand the
caller (and wasn't in a good mood, since she woke me up), asked to speak
to a supervisor, who also spoke broken english. I asked where he was
calling from and you guessed it -- India. Told him to never call me
again, and was so steamed I came down and paid the bill in full (I had
intended to pay it the first of the month), closed the account and
enclosed a note to GE credit that until they assured me that they had
local (US) call centers, would not avail myself of their services again.

The bill was not overdue, but a close reading of the fine print told me
that I was to make a monthly payment (in spite of the fact that I had 90
days to pay, and was well within the 90 day limit)

Copies to GE corperate, and S&K menswear (where I had opened the account)

Brian D wrote:
Hear hear! My job used to be rock solid and now I, and everyone else I know
on the job are always in fear of the next 'offshore outsourcing' that will
cause the local organization to be unneeded anymore. It's real, I know.
It's been happening more and more in the blue-chip company that I work for
and there's no slowing down...

Brian

http://www.advantagecomposites.com/tongass


wrote in message
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When You Hear The Heavy Accent & The Poor Phone Connection... HANG UP!!
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I think you must know what I'm talking about. Together, a heavy foreign

accent,

coupled with a lousy phone connection can only mean one thing... An

outsourced

operation, in a place like India, China, The Philippines, etc.; where some
greedy American corporation is saving a few pieces of Silver and

displacing

American workers in the process.
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The best thing you can do is hang up... look for the companies' on-shore

counterpart

and complain! Tell them you're sick and tired of sub-standard services by

people

who speak English so poorly that you can hardly communicate... are most

often

poorly trained... have little accountability for the advice they give

you... often can't be

heard clearly because of a poor satellite phone connection... conveniently

block

their caller-ID... give themselves phony names like 'Tina' or 'Jimmy' (to

deceive you

into thinking they're local) and most often provide no avenue to escalate

an issue

to someone who can really help.
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Corporations will only end this practice if they see they're losing their

customer

base as a consequence. Let's start doing our part by starting a

grass-roots

movement...
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When You Hear The Heavy Accent & The Poor Phone Connection... HANG UP!
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