[ale] telepest triggered question

[Pete Hardie]

tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> Yesterday evening I was  bothered by a phone solicitor for my credit card 
> company (wanting me to expand my credit and some other services). From the 
> gentleman's accent, I would guess that he is a native of India, which 
> triggered a thought of sorts. As a group, we are all too familiar with 
> outsourcing support and programming jobs to nonUS locations. Has a similar 
> trend hit the telemarketers? Does anybody know? Does it really matter?

Telemarketing was one of the first jobs to go that way - all the telepest needs 
is fluency in English, the script, and a phone line.


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Pete Hardie                   |   Goalie, DVSG Dart Team
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