marketing through my phone line
I got rung up last night by a telemarketer from Slingshot, from what sounded like Beijing, but was probably Auckland. "And a how is you?" he says, in broken Chinese.
Slingshot is an ISP, but it is also attempting to get into the phone market and wanted me to switch over to their plan. Or at least that's how it sounded like. Trouble was that the telemarketer sounded like he was on the first day into his new job after just coming off the slow boat from China. He couldn't speak English correctly, couldn't understand it, so I really wonder if he could even spell Slingshot, let alone market its products.
Now I know why there are so many unskilled kiwis out of a job. These immigrants take the $9.50 telemarketing jobs and other similar low-skilled jobs and can't do them. They are quickly replaced by other similarly unskilled immigrants who are equally incompetent - and so on, and so on, and so on. Some of them can't get benefits as they are not permanent residents or NZ citizens.
I have three words for these kind of immigrants who shunt themselves around the low paid unskilled job market.
Go.Back.Home.
If Slingshot wants to sell stuff, surely they could make sure their marketers have a basic grasp of English so they can at least give a coherent greeting before they attempt to sell stuff.
3 comments:
The marketer could actually have been calling from China. This is getting more and more common - it's apparently cheaper to outsource marketing overseas. India was the country that I'd heard was all the rage for this sort of thing.
No, the guy was calling from Auckland... thats what he told me. I assume me knows where Auckland is??
I once called from Palmerston North the BNZ 0800 number in the early evening and I got through to an English speaking Indian man.
The call centre person suggested that I go to the nearest open branch to resolve the problem I was having as he couldn't help me over the phone.
I asked where was this branch and he said the Sky Tower in Auckland.
I then suggested to him he had no idea of where Palmerston North was in relationship to the Sky Tower in Auckland and that he wasn't in NZ.
He denied this was the case and I called him a liar and asked to speak to his manager.
I got the manager also an English speaking Indian man and went through the whole argument all over again.
I don't mind if they do outsource call centre's overseas but if they had a map of the country then this would be a great help to avoid idiot suugestions.
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