Call centre workers
Has anyone else noticed how nearly all the call centre salespeople who bother you at home with "special offers" have foreign accents? Frequently they’re English, Irish or European.
Today I was called by someone from Westpac trying to flog life insurance and she was definitely English.
I can only presume that most of them are backpackers earning a few dollars to pay for the holiday. When you phone a technical call centre the people often have an Indian accent, but that’s probably because they’re in India!
I thought I read somewhere a while ago that a new law was supposed to ban these unsolicited phone calls. That’s probably why they send you a letter first now, which invariably goes straight into the round filing cabinet, and they use the letter as an excuse to call. Must be some sort of a loophole, or the law doesn’t exist, or possibly isn’t enforced.
I'm a 41-year-old father of four working as a newspaper editor at Mount Gambier in South Australia.
