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ROTFLMFAOPMP!!!
Exactly.
I demand someone from North America when I call customer service.
If I don't think I am speaking to an American or a Canadian, I will make believe I can't understand them (whether or not I actually can - usually I can't anyway) but I will continue to not understand until they put a freaking American or Canadian on the line.
I stand up for American jobs.
Don't you have a small local bank or credit union you can use?
Don't you have a small local bank or credit union you can use?
What does that have to do with the fact that American jobs are being sent overseas? That's what this small subsection of the thread is referring to - oldtrader's claim that jobs aren't being outsourced abroad, or that more of them are being created in the US.
In other words, I wasn't talking about the call center for my bank (I use two, and both have their call centers in the US). I was talking about the call center for a whole lot of other things. Even a huge department of the supply-chain company I used to work for, which sourced American-made items for other American manufacturing plants, was in India.
Don't you have a small local bank or credit union you can use?
This was general, not just referring to any bank I might call.
I currently bank with a large, national bank...I started banking with them for no better reason than the fact that they gave me a car loan when nobody else would.
Now I'm in the market for my first house. And I'm a difficult person to write a mortgage for, because of my unique situation, being self-employed. My future looks brighter than my past...but even my past is not bad, I have a credit score that proves this.
The fact is, before the bust...banks would have been falling all over themselves to wrote me paper. I'm a good risk. But these new regulations and gun-shy lenders are making things difficult for me.
So I may end up changing banks in the near future. Because the lender who makes me happy now - will have my business and my business' business....for years to come. If you can dig it.
ROTFLMFAOPMP!!!
Exactly.
I demand someone from North America when I call customer service.
If I don't think I am speaking to an American or a Canadian, I will make believe I can't understand them (whether or not I actually can - usually I can't anyway) but I will continue to not understand until they put a freaking American or Canadian on the line.
I stand up for American jobs.
A very good, and legitimate way to do that is say I don't feel comfortable giving my SS# so someone in the Philippines............US laws don't protect us there if a call center agent overseas steals your SS# or other personal information.
I have asked countless people this exact question and no one can/will answer it.
How is this different than ANY customer service oriented position? Our economic milieu is orienting toward simple customer service work, with few opportunities for advancement. It's no surprise that people at the bottom who do not have an opportunity to move up end up on social assistance programs.
I don't think the point was that it was different; I think he's pointing out that people actually do work for banks, and that they're financially insecure. America's primarily a service-based economy now, so people need to think about this carefully before they flippantly respond with "Well, so what - lots of service jobs pay peanuts."
Sacredgrooves, you subscribe to the same business philosophy as I do.
Nice to see another small businessperson who shares my philosophy. The higher pay will pay for itself in the increased success of my business in terms of customer satisfaction equals referrals equals more work for everyone.
Glad to see, also, someone who shares the same view of immigration and H1b's as I do.
Would like to see our schools stop lowering the bar until everyone can jump over it. Set the bar where it needs to be to produce success in life - and hold back those who do not meet that bar. In the long run, you are doing them more favors holding them back...than passing them onto the next level - which they are not ready for.
"Social Promotion" should be a thing of the past. If a kid needs to stay in second grade until he's thirteen, then so be it.
First you need to pay for decent teachers,,, they make " S**''T" and the whole of education sucks... there are some good teacher but they are maxed out buying supplies and fighting the world just to teach your brats, some ABC's- who stands up for them? ah the UNIONS oh no can't have them= bla bla. Politicians are playing patty cake with life issues and people too un-interested to see or care whats going on.
First you need to pay for decent teachers,,, they make " S**''T" and the whole of education sucks... there are some good teacher but they are maxed out buying supplies and fighting the world just to teach your brats, some ABC's- who stands up for them? ah the UNIONS oh no can't have them= bla bla. Politicians are playing patty cake with life issues and people too un-interested to see or care whats going on.
No kidding.
Because it isn't IMMEDIATELY ENTERTAINING...people don't care or pay attention. And then wonder why their life sucks.
Just keep watching American Idol, folks! Don't get educated and informed.
The correct answer is have kids and be dependent on government to help you. The earned income credit is public assistance IMO
In a way people like me without kids and that work are the ones that are getting screwed. The system does nothing for us...absolutely nothing. I don't have health insurance so if I broke a leg or something I would be in big trouble. Meanwhile people that smoke like a chimney and live in government assistance housing and don't want to work have it made.
In a way people like me without kids and that work are the ones that are getting screwed. The system does nothing for us...absolutely nothing. I don't have health insurance so if I broke a leg or something I would be in big trouble. Meanwhile people that smoke like a chimney and live in government assistance housing and don't want to work have it made.
Government has always engaged in "social engineering." You are supposed to be motivated to get married and have children to continue the human race. They seem to think we won't do it naturally, unless we are rewarded for doing it....and punished for not doing it.
And, no...people who live in government assistance housing and smoke like chimneys don't have it made. Would you REALLY want to live as they do? How about you try it for just a month?
P.S. I remember when Jane Byrne, then-mayor of the City of Chicago...said she would live for one month in Cabrini Green, the notorious projects in Chicago...which, by the way, no longer even exist. She lasted three weeks. And that long only because she had bodyguards, Chicago Police, and her husband there with her.
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