Re: OT working with computers

[Guest guest]

Oh, c'mon, . I never had one of them call me madam. ;<)

Virg (That's Virgil, not Virginia <g>.

> You don't have to worry about getting a job fixing or analyzing

> problems with computers. Those are all farmed out to India, where the

> people who answer have that sing-song Indian accent, and call you " madam "

> about every 2 words.

[Guest guest]

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Good point about Indian accents. I still have yet to nail them down with my CI.

Today I had an Indian cab driver who was very nice, but I couldn't understand

for the life of me. I finally had to speak in broken English so I could get an

idea of what he was trying to say.

Mona, who doesn't think she will ever learn how to understand Indian accents

[Guest guest]

I didn't say that Virg. did.

---- Virg <jvtomlin@...> wrote:

> Oh, c'mon, . I never had one of them call me madam. ;<)

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> Virg (That's Virgil, not Virginia <g>.

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> > You don't have to worry about getting a job fixing or analyzing

> > problems with computers. Those are all farmed out to India, where the

> > people who answer have that sing-song Indian accent, and call you " madam "

> > about every 2 words.

[Guest guest]

I'm sure y'all will feel very sorry for me when I tell you that my employer is

currently developing a new IT business system - in our 20th month of development

with another 16 months to go...and the development team is from....drum roll

please.... India!!!  And one gentleman from Brazil, but he's much easier to

understand, even with his accent.   A few years back I also had to train a woman

in her job who was from India (husband doctor was doing his residency here) and

so really had to work hard to understand her, but it got easier with time.  The

IT guys, they all have different accents - I assume from different parts of

India - so I struggle with them, especially if I haven't listened to them for

awhile. 

So I know exactly what y'all are talking about...

 

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From: " lkozlik@... " <lkozlik@...>

Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 6:23:59 PM

Subject: Re: OT working with computers

,

Good point about Indian accents. I still have yet to nail them down with my CI.

Today I had an Indian cab driver who was very nice, but I couldn't understand

for the life of me. I finally had to speak in broken English so I could get an

idea of what he was trying to say.

Mona, who doesn't think she will ever learn how to understand Indian accents

[Guest guest]

Skyrocketing unemployment here and they're importing labor? Why?

Virg

I'm sure y'all will feel very sorry for me when I tell you that my employer

is currently developing a new IT business system - in our 20th month of

development with another 16 months to go...and the development team is

from....drum roll please.... India!!!

[Guest guest]

'Cuz it's cheaper to pay foreign workers cents for every dollar Americans

make. For example a factory worker in Vietnam is paid much less an hour

compared to here in the states. And that's for factory floor workers - IT

contractors make a lot more than that of course but they're still cheaper

than US and Western Europe.

Kat

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Virg <jvtomlin@...> wrote:

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> Skyrocketing unemployment here and they're importing labor? Why?

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[Guest guest]

Oh, yeah, I know but I thought you meant that they were bringing them over

*here* from India.

Virg

> 'Cuz it's cheaper to pay foreign workers cents for every dollar Americans

> make. For example a factory worker in Vietnam is paid much less an hour

> compared to here in the states. And that's for factory floor workers - IT

> contractors make a lot more than that of course but they're still cheaper

> than US and Western Europe.

>

> Kat

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> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Virg <jvtomlin@...> wrote:

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[Guest guest]

Sometimes we do contract " impats " from out contractors overseas - they come

here and work short assignments and then go back home. Still cheaper

because they're paid via their own companies, not ours.

We did outsource our IT help desk call center to Mexico this past year and

it's not been an outstanding success - their approval ratings were a dismal

27% 3 months after they started and it still hasn't improved that much from

what I can tell.

Kat

[Guest guest]

I was the one who made the original post about the IT development in our

office.  We have developers in India who is writing the system while we are

sleeping.  When we are awake, we are testing what they've done while they are

sleeping.    It is about 12 hours difference in time zones.    We do have

some key people who fly here to work in our office directly with our SME's -

subject matter experts. 

 

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From: Virg <jvtomlin@...>

Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 10:37:18 PM

Subject: Re: OT working with computers

Oh, yeah, I know but I thought you meant that they were bringing them over

*here* from India.

Virg

> 'Cuz it's cheaper to pay foreign workers cents for every dollar Americans

> make. For example a factory worker in Vietnam is paid much less an hour

> compared to here in the states. And that's for factory floor workers - IT

> contractors make a lot more than that of course but they're still cheaper

> than US and Western Europe.

>

> Kat

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> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Virg <jvtomlinwbcable (DOT) net> wrote:

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