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Monday, April 7, 2008

The Rudest People In the World

Bangalore is the IT capital of India and India is the IT country of the world for outsourcing, offshoring (not oil:) and call/tech support centers.There are huge IT Parks all around the city. These are clusters of IT companies like Dell, Yahoo, AOL, Google and other software companies that share acres of beautiful/immaculate campuses. The latest trend is work/living parks in which an IT company builds it offices surrounded by multiple apartment complexes and retail stores to house their employees. I guess this saves on gas and commute time? It doesn't sound like a fun idea to constantly mix work and life but these are going up everywhere here.
I met a girl at church who does tech support calls for ipod. She asked me where I was from and I told her Houston, TX. She looked at me and grinned. I said, "Oh, you've heard of it?". She said "oh yes, Texans are known at our company for being the rudest people on earth". I was in shock!! How could someone talk to a friendly, down-home Texan and come up with such a conclusion???:) She said that they are usually irate, demanding and whining about their ipod problems. Wow! She also said that she can tell where each call is coming from via caller ID and every time she sees TX she immediately diverts the call to someone else. Maybe that's why Texans are so irritable b/c they are getting passed around by every employee in the company trying to avoid them and therefore are on hold for an hour:D j/j. So with this in mind, all you Texans out there with ipods or any American with any gadget for that matter...the next time you speak with Tech Support just remember they are probably in India, so be on your best behavior so as not to live up to the "Rudest People in the World" reputation:)

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

I was an "immigrant from the North" for a while to Texas, and now to India. While Texans thought the "Yanks" were rude, we said the same thing about Texans, and we all said it of Indians. Now, the tables have turned :) I guess it just comes from not understanding the way we all express our frustration with things. Living in all three places has proved that we are all really the same deep down :)