Like the PAKIS, no offense to anyone, but when I want to hear jibberish, Ill speak to my 1 1/2yr old nephew.

I did not know we had a department in Pakistan. That is new to me.

Wow, if thats not 100% ignorance, I dont know what is.

Very true. Very upsetting that somebody thinks that way. I wonder who he sounds to people that dont speak English??

Sounding is different than being.
This guy is a twit.

I AM... YOU KNOW I AM... I AM CANADIAN!!!

😢 YOU KICK MY DOG, FREAKIN DOG KICKERS!!! lol You have to hear it to know what I am talking about.

Y a unfortunately we do say aboot but you can always say to an american that you have a great IDEAR how about we go up on the ruff

dont get me started on the venacular diversity we have...ive listen to people that cant put two accurate words together

southern accents are funny 😕

are you trying to pick a fight? j?k..🙂 ....btw im a from mississippi, and i say ya'll and all that

And I sit right behind him... and yes i can tell when a Canadian rep calls in, but I love the Canadian accent from the women that call... very sexy...

and yes, his compliments know no man made boundries ;)

Is that because us Canadian women know how to have a good time or is it that we are all very sexy people?

hmmm... I can't comment personally on the first, but definitely the second...

Believe me us Canadian women know how to have a REALLY good time!!! 😉

lol... which call center are you in. I take calls from Welland and Cornwall... (if those are spelled right!)

I'm in the Regina center. We rock!

Oh... Then I guess I won't get the pleasure of talking to you... 😢

I didn't say that at all. I'm not stuck up whatsoever I'm just a very proud Canadian girl.

It's okay, don't cry. You can talk here for the next month (a little less). And there are a few other Canadian girls on here too.

Lol... I'll keep that in mind... and I don't mind if people email me... click on my name, contact me... I'm off to bed...

CDawn said:
I'm in the Regina center. We rock!

I said that because I don't take calls from the Regina call center... 😎

Oh, sorry. You don't know what you are missing! Our center isn't the greatest but our people are.

welland here =)

As a Canadian Man, I can vouch for that. 😁

And you must be a lucky man...

Most of the Canadian men think they are lucky, I hope they realize how lucky they really are to have such awesome women around.

Got a thing for chicks that say "aboot?" (name that film)

Chasing Amy... don't try me buddy... 😈

We say ABOUT, not aboot. Most Americans pick that up right away but when they say it back they sound the same as us. Oh well, at least we knw how to spell 😉

🤣 LOL I misspelled know. Sorry, I find that VERY amusing! I'll just laugh to myself now. 🤣

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Thanks! Anything to make other smile and be happy!

I mean make other people smile and be happy. Can we all tell I'm a little tired and daydreaming? Oh well, I'm still proud to be Canadian and I still LOVE CANADA

And I think I'm transferring to the Regina Call Center... any help desk openings????

Not sure. I don't pay too much attention to openings anymore, I'm out of here in the middle of July. Onto bigger and better things. (school and a real job)

Props to ya there bud...just makin sure!

Ok, I Do NOT say aBOOT. Ever...unless I am talking about my actual BOOT. I say about with more of an, oh sound, not an OW sound. I will never say aBOOT.

We don't talk funny. We talk closer to the british roots of the language. So it's them that talk funny, and spell words wrong. 🙂

Just figured that i'd share this becuase it seemed to fit

Call:

Caller, "Can i ask you a personal question?"

Me, "uhh sure."
Caller, "What race are you?"

Me" uhhhhh......."

Caller I mean no offense are you white? I'm just curiouse becuase you have an acesent that i've never heard before."

Me, "I'm white."

Caler, "were are you from."

Me, " western washington, (really I'm a Cannuck, but the hole non discloser thing.)"

Caller, "Does everyone there talk like you?"

Me, " I guess so, I don't think i talk any differently then anyone else in my area."

That was pretty much the end of it. The reason why we can not disclose our call centre location is becuase some Americans get pissed off becuase we are out sourced...
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I suspected that was the reason for nondisclosure. 😕 Yes, poor India...the people there just need jobs...they don't need abuse from ignorant, ultra right-wing Americans that can't handle speaking to someone more intelligent than themselves in another country. I'm so sick of American ignorance...I'm seriously considering moving to Vancouver and never looking back. Anyway...I was going to make the comment that I have no idea how many times I've had to explain myself when I ask for the "mobile number." "Mobile number? You mean my trailer number?" And you think I'm joking here, right?

Been there! Vancouver is REALLY nice, Victoria is better, they have the whole island mentallity. My brother lived in Victoria and he said he'd recommend Victoria way before Vancouver.

Victoria is alot cleaner than Vancouver, but both places are rampant with drugs.

Letsgopense said:
Victoria is alot cleaner than Vancouver, but both places are rampant with drugs.

You say that as though it were a bad thing... 😎

Maybe why I said it that way yeah. 🙂

Hmmm drugs.........

Letsgopense said:
but both places are rampant with drugs.

As opposed to where?

Yeah,I lived in bith Vic and Van,but Victoria is the best,I miss that place sooo much. Vancouver is cool on a weekend or something,but stay away from Min and Hastings,I'll tell ya what.Way too many junkies in Vancouver,especially there.Go to Victoria,its better.

I have TONS of family in the Surrey/Vancouver area, hence why I'm considering Vancouver...I know I've seen Victoria Island, but I don't think I've been there in about fifteen years.

It is so beautiful in Victoria. I really miss it.

The furthest West I've made it is only Prince George BC. I'll have to make it further some day and see Victoria. However, its a long trip from Halifax 🙂

Yeah, I can relate. It's even farther from Ontario which is where I now live ☹️

How is victoria further from ontario then halifax???? I'm on the east coast, you are not...

ConvergysSlave said:
How is victoria further from ontario then halifax???? I'm on the east coast, you are not...

How is Victoria further away form Ontario then Halifax?!? Get a freakking map! There has got to be something like 5,000KM difference between the two. Both Ontario and Halifax are eastern provinces, BC is on the other freaking end of the country!

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excactly. I am Further EAst then Ontario....

ConvergysSlave said:
excactly. I am Further EAst then Ontario....

I realize that, for some reason I was thinking you said Calgary, not Halifax. I know where Halifax is, I just didn't read the word "Halifax" for some reason.

Oops 🤭 my mistake, I misread, I thought you said something else. I'm a dummy, forgive me.

I live in victoria and it's got city life with a small town atmosphere- beautiful trees and tons of ocean! no complaints.

You dont know how many times, I've been called out for being Canadian. In our center we are supposed to say "based out of Peramus NJ." Most reps just say they are from Canada anyway though. (would never want to be an American, and damn proud of who we are). Most Americans do not mind but I've got enough that have asked to be transfered to a citizen of thier country, or who have stated that they were going to cancel due to the outsourcing. Come on...

Welcome to the new globalized world people, we are cheaper labour for a few reasons. THe American dollar is worth about 1.23 Canadian, and our benefits are SOOOO much cheaper as there is free health care here. Plus the Nova Scotia Government gives them tax breaks and money for employing so m...
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And us Canadians are friendly. (for the most part)I usually tell customers I'm from Canada, why wouldn't I? It's a great place to live and I'm damn proud to be 100% Canadian!

Its true, most of the time people ask wher I'm from is because I was so nice to them. The other times it is when I say about or eh! 🙂

Which I swear I say correctly. Who is to say what is correct? The funny thing is that nobody really sound the same accross the US, or accross Canada. I've lived in Alberta, BC, Ontario and here is Nova Scotia and believe me there are different accents. The language is from England and we have all twisted it a bit.

Everyone has an accent of somesort, and everyone has different responses to it depending who you speak to. Everyone in the south doesn't think I have an accent, but when I go to Canada, of course they think I sound like a yank.

ConvergysSlave said:
Its true, most of the time people ask wher I'm from is because I was so nice to them. The other times it is when I say about or eh! 🙂

Which I swear I say correctly. Who is to say what is correct? The funny thing is that nobody really sound the same accross the US, or accross Canada. I've lived in Alberta, BC, Ontario and here is Nova Scotia and believe me there are different accents. The language is from England and we have all twisted it a bit.

Actually, the Canadian accent is kind of a Pan-UK amalgam, and the individual vowel sounds in question are actually closer to Scottish and Irish than English. It's from the large number of Gaelic speakers who colonized Canada (and also the U...
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It doesn't completely stop at the border though - I grew up in northern Washington in a little town right on the Canadian border. We always used to make fun of the way that the Canadians would talk (they would always come into town to buy beer and cigarettes because we have less taxes on them here).

Then one day I realized that other than not saying 'eh' a lot - that we all sounded pretty much the same as them!

I'm like cottage cheese in a refrigerator and I pick up accents something terrible... So I worked with some Canadians at one time and I started sounding like them--still can if I think about it. It's weird, though, I can do about eight distinct British accents well enough to fool someone from England who doesn't speak that exact dialect, but when I actually travelled to England I got thrown into my aunt's Texas accent, then reverted to Brit when I went to France. The inside of my brain must be a strange and scary place... 🤣

I can't do other 'English' accents - but I can speak German and Dutch without an American accent! 😛

Well you're ahead of me, I speak a smattering of Japanese, French and Spanish and can curse and ask for the bathroom in about six other languages, but I'm not a polyglot by any means!

All words that Canadians spell differently then Americans. WE like to keep those U's.
Labour
Neighbour
Colour

Hey Dawn, what team are you on? 😉

If I get the feeling that the cust won't freak on me I'll say I'm from Canada. If I think they will I just tell them I can't disclose my location. With most people it brings up a convo point and helps bring up my call time 🙂. I can always use that.

yes, most of the time when i get calls from the canada call centers, they are friendly...occasionally i get one that tries to educate me on the billing system...but thats not a canadian thing, thats just human nature

I just remembered, I've gotten a couple transfers from a Canadian call center...I remember the rep sounded very hesitant to tell me which call center she was from...I hope no one internal has been giving those call centers too much crap.

I really can't blame companies for outsourcing, especially considering I believe the US is the only modern country that doesn't have a socialized health care system...am I wrong there? McCarthyism is dead! Quit worrying about communism!

If you say this:

RX240 said:
they don't need abuse from ignorant, ultra right-wing Americans that can't handle speaking to someone more intelligent than themselves in another country.

Then you are a part of this:

RX240 said:
American ignorance

Have you ever considered that perhaps there is another reason people don't want to talk to reps in India. Perhaps it's the fact they can understand about 1 out of 5 words they say. They pay X amount per month and when they have a problem they have to talk to someone they can't even understand? I'd be pissed too.

American Ignorance huh? And you assume a whole country is ignorant based on a select few. If you hate us so much...
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Um, I'm not making assumptions about the entire country, I'm stating that "ignorant, ultra right-wing" Americans are, well, ignorant. I state that this group of Americans can't handle speaking to someone more intelligent than themselves...how many Americans do you know that can speak a word of Hindi? Or even know what Hindi is? Again, I was not bashing all Americans, just the closed minded ones that can't see past the person that they're talking to and actually see the person that's holding their puppet strings.

I agree, have you ever tried to talk to Rogers... or better yet, CALL BELL CANADA.... you will never be able to understand anyone who picks up the phone... Where is my convienence store... I have put more time in this country then most, and I don't have a store. If you are canadian living in Ontario you should know exactly what I am talkin about.. lol

lmao....god i wish i could dispute that trailer bit...but i confuse the locals all the time...

once I got yelled at by a store rep for being canadian (when he called in and i didn't give him the answer he wanted- but the correct answer) he proceded to yell at me when i said i didn't have a way to xfer him to an american rep (he thought i didn't know what i was doing, or we had different policies or something) but then on the other end of the spectrum i had a really nice store rep from texas call in and say "why, little lady you've got the cutest canadian accent" so it really does depend on the person not the contry on how ignorant they are- but I do find alot of people Mostly americans- canadians as well though, are fairly close minded.

me too 😁

At this time marijuana is not fully decriminalized- they do allow it for medical use, and most police turn a blind eye unless it is a large grow op or huge sales etc- but they don't care if they see people smoking it etc. (well at least on the island here they don't). But if you get a cop who wants to really inforce the law and you get caught with just the right amount of pot the US will not let us in to the country! They at that point consider us criminals if we have one mark on our file related to a marijuana fine :S

Well, that's kind of fair considering how intolerant the Canadian government is regarding American citizens who want to move who have DUIs on their driving records...

. . . and it's not like someone with a prior record of possession would be more likely to bring BC Bud in from Canada either! 😁

Why bother, when there's a buttload of amazing stuff growing all over Oregon and Washington? Just stay away from that Cali ditch weed, though, that stuff will strike you blind... (Except for Humboldt of course, I'm talking like south of Red Bluff...) BC bud is okay, but OR and WA stuff kicks its butt... 😛

I just remember in my hometown that they would bring it in big hockey bags - I wasn't into that whole scene, but in a small town, everyone knows about it anyway. We had a massive smuggling operation going on in our town. It got so bad that the police launched a massive campaign to shut it down. The really ironic thing is that it turned out when they finally busted the people that the person who was running the whole thing was the daughter of the local minister!

It's stupid to even try--I guess we learned absolutely nothing from Prohibition! Legalize ALL of it, tax it and use the proceeds to fund rehab, education and diversion programs. The true addictive personalities will kill themselves very quickly, leaving the sensible people who know how to manage their bad habits to carry on without a ton of their tax dollars spent prosecuting victimless crimes. Get rid of all the blue laws while we're at it--if somebody wants to rent a part of their body to someone who wants to buy it, let 'em!

in my opinion a DUI is alot more dangerous than smoking pot on the side of the road. your not endagering someone else's life.

Yeah, but it's kinda ludicrous to gig somebody for a DUI that occurred over twenty years ago and has never been repeated, y'know?

yes i agree. i think 5 years would be sufficient.

** not only can canadians not MOVE to the US after having any criminal mark on their record (marijuana etc) even after 20 years - they can't even ENTER the united states as it is considered a federal crime. :S:S i just think it's all in good fun . haha

I doubt I'd get much opposition if I flatly stated that governments as a whole tend to be stupid as a fried popsicle and crazy as a soup sandwich! 🤣

I think we may pay more income taxes, but taking a look at some of the invoices there are alot of sales tax in the states. I've seen some cust with 20% in total tax.

Well,go to Vancouver for lax pot laws if you like...the have "sit and roll" coffe shop there.( I recomend Blunt Bros. 😎 ) Our taxes and our gas prices both hit pretty hard though,especially today. ***kin 99.9 bullshit.

blunt brothers burnt down if i'm not mistaken... how ironic... and sad.

I wanna move to canada!! 😁

WHAT!!! WHEN? Awwwwww 😢 😢 😢 😢 😢 😢 😢 😢 😢 😢 😢 😢 😢

whenever i can afford it lol. I guess I would need to find a job first. I could work at Halifax. I also heard that the price rates for cable TV and cable internet service are way cheaper in canada like the equivalent of 25 U.S. dollars per month for 5mbs service. I pay double for half that in the states

High speed is very common in Canada.

I pay $19.99/month CND for 5mbs internet. Mind you that is only a specail for 6 months, then it is back up to $30.

Your phone plans are a lot better. I have to pay for my VM and caller ID.
works out to $39/month for 200 min, 75 text messages and unlim n&w. mind you my n&w start at 6pm 😁.

I should correct myself the internet is unlimited my band width is 5MB/s

tragic, just tragic lol

haha we have 4 computers hooked up to 1 hub, and we pay 50$ canadian a month for unlimited access on each of these.