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General => General Discussion and ??? => Topic started by: Frog on October 09, 2020, 04:06:06 PM

Title: Ethnic Stereotypes
Post by: Frog on October 09, 2020, 04:06:06 PM
Okay, my detractors would probably label me as a "snowflake" bound by "political correctness".
That helps explain the little pang of guilt I feel when time after time (especially over the last six months) when someone calls, and has an Indian accent, and asks to speak to the manager, I immediately find myself asking if they are offering digitizing and/or vectorization! Problem is, I'm batting 1000!
Title: Re: Ethnic Stereotypes
Post by: Dottonedan on October 09, 2020, 04:33:11 PM
Oh yea. They are hitting us hard here. Emails and calls.   Thing is, I can’t get our owner to enable us to market in our own area. People don’t know who we are here....How are these people in India  finding us?  LOL.
Title: Re: Ethnic Stereotypes
Post by: 3Deep on October 09, 2020, 04:34:04 PM
Same here with google tossed in
Title: Re: Ethnic Stereotypes
Post by: Dottonedan on October 09, 2020, 04:42:29 PM
Same here with google tossed in





Hey Darryl, by the way,


I’ve been trying to reach you about your car insurance. Gieco can save you hundreds of dollars on your car insurance. And while we are at, it, Darryl, your cars warranty is about to expire.
Title: Re: Ethnic Stereotypes
Post by: stitches4815 on October 09, 2020, 05:22:20 PM
We are averaging a dozen calls a day.  I think they are making up for when everything was shut down last April.
Title: Re: Ethnic Stereotypes
Post by: Doug S on October 09, 2020, 05:56:53 PM
Same here with google tossed in





Hey Darryl, by the way,


I’ve been trying to reach you about your car insurance. Gieco can save you hundreds of dollars on your car insurance. And while we are at, it, Darryl, your cars warranty is about to expire.

Oh and also, you can get help with your college loans.  I get that one about twice a week. 
Title: Re: Ethnic Stereotypes
Post by: GoWestRob on October 09, 2020, 06:54:19 PM
You guys are welcome to use our sales call robot, we have a subscription with Jolly Roger Phone Company and we just send our digitizers over to talk to the robot.  We just conference the two lines together and let them hammer it out.  Check them out here -

https://jollyrogertelephone.com/

If you want to conference your digitizers in with our line, just make a conference call between the digitizer and this number -
253-326-8095

The best part is that I get a recording emailed to me of the digitizer trying to get past the "receptionist".  It'll be funny to see what happens when they get the same receptionist at screen shops across the US.
Title: Re: Ethnic Stereotypes
Post by: mk162 on October 12, 2020, 08:57:12 AM
I solved this by hiring an Indian guy.  He reinforces my pre-existing biases by also making fun of them.

I've done the same by hiring a Hispanic guy.  I can't be racist, I wouldn't have hired them if I was!

You guys just need to figure out how to game the whole system so you can make fun of different ethnicities.

ALL OF THE ABOVE IS A JOKE.

We get more calls from what I can assume is China for digitizing.  The Indian accents we get are either embroidery or credit card processing.  It's all annoying.  Couple that with the election calls and texts and I am praying NASA miscalculated the trajectory of one those meteors and it in fact destroys the planet.