Answering the phone WAS: Licensing snafu

[Walter Vaughan]

Barry Wiseman wrote:
> Of course, we're speaking of a company that actually answers 
> their phone....

Yesterday I answered the phone.

Let me preface this with I am pretty race agnostic. My best friend in college is 
from Pakistan. My bother in law is Asiatic, and I have a sister in law who is 
Hispanic. My sons ususally have anywhere from 2-6 friends over all the time on 
the weekends and they run from every the poorest to the richest in North 
Carolina, and every color in the rainbow. I could do a whole lot better, but I 
consider myself okay around anyone even if I am the whitest white boy in NC (I 
don't tan).

So.

I get this cold call from PCMall with this person who is now my account manager. 
Fine, I'll listen for a few minutes. The only problem is that I can't understand 
a word he's saying. People in Bangalore India need jobs too. But golly gee wiz, 
I ask him to repeat things several times, and It's just making me crazy that now 
I am feeling xenophobic. "Can't they find some farmers wife in North Dakota to 
make these calls?", is all I am thinking. Do we have to shift all the jobs to India?

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wdv