Ask to talk to U.S. reps only
Posted on | January 5, 2011 | 2 Comments
A Wonderful Idea……
I want to ask each of you to consider doing the following when you are talking on the phone to any US customer service representative that is based in a foreign country (like India ). I have done this twice and it works! Any time you call an 800 number (for a credit card, banking, charter communications, health insurance, insurance, you name it) and you are transferred to a representative (like in India), please consider doing the following:
After you connect and you realize that the customer service representative is not from the USA (you can always ask if you are not sure about the accent), please very politely (very politely – this is not about trashing other cultures) say, “I’d like to speak to a customer service representative in the United States of America.” The rep might suggest talking to his/her manager, but, again, politely say, “Thank you, but I’d like to speak to a customer service representative in the USA .” YOU WILL BE IMMEDIATELY CONNECTED to a rep in the USA . It only takes less than one minute to have your call re-directed to the USA . Tonight when I got redirected to a USA rep, I asked again to make sure – and yes, she was from Fort Lauderdale .
Imagine if tomorrow, every US citizen who has to make such a call and then requests a US rep, imagine how that would ultimately impact the number of US jobs that would need to be created ASAP. Imagine what would happen if every US citizen insisted on talking to only US phone reps from this day on. If I tell 10 people to consider this and you tell 10 people to consider doing this – see what I mean…it becomes an exercise in viral marketing 101.
Remember – the goal here is to restore jobs back here at home – not to be abrupt or rude to a foreign phone rep. If you agree, please tell 10 people you know and tell them to tell 10 people they know….etc…etc…
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January 5th, 2011 @ 1:24 pm
What a disturbingly xenophobic suggestion. How about all native-born Americans ask for dentists that were born here and speak unaccented English? If that were the case, people would never have the pleasure of meeting you and expanding their perspectives, Orly. Protectionism is a form of communism, and I think we both know that communism doesn’t work.
January 5th, 2011 @ 2:40 pm
John,
You’re so moronic I can only conclude that you’re a product of our esteemed US educational system.
The Founding Fathers of the United States were staunch protectionists. Free trade in the states caused desperation because the cheapest goods were made in England and the US simply could not compete. This caused a massive trade imbalance with England, bankruptcies and depression. From this depression caused by free trade almost came a second revolution stemming from an armed rebellion in Massachusetts; another rebellion was narrowly averted in New Hampshire. George Mason wrote of it: “Had there been no free trade, there would have been no inundation of foreign goods; had there been no inundation of foreign goods, there would have been no drain of specie (money); had there been no drain of specie, there would have been no lack of circulating medium; had there been no distress, there would have been no impulse toward insubordination to the state.”