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PeterL2

"U.N." > wrote in news:3ea96bdb-7652-4e4c-bb8f-
:

> Original Post appears to be a bizarre troll.
>
> Nonetheless, I used to work for a local ISP some years ago. I did
> many things, but one of those was also providing Tech Support to our
> subscribers- and by this I mean *real* Tech Support. This was a
> similar place as to what George Shirley speaks of, only we sold
> Internet services primarily and repaired computers secondarily.
>
> As soon as the word got out that Dell was offshoring their tech
> support, it seemed to happen overnight that anyone that called us (a
> mom-n-pop ISP in a community of about 20,000) assumed that I was a
> card-flipper in Bangalore, India. There were actually TWO occasions
> where someone stated that they couldn't understand me because of my
> accent. Figure that one out.
>
> -J
>

So what's your accent???