I find this hilarious
The other day I got this phone call. I pick up the phone, say "hello", after which theres this long pause and then this Indian guy starts trying to sell me a Nokia mobile phone contract. In parts he would speak in an Australian accent and would at times have an American accent. But you could hear the underlying Indian accent.
then I remembered..
A lot of telemarketing is actually based in India. Companies move their telemarketing departments to Indian, because it's the largest english speaking country in the World and wages costs are dirt cheap. They then train these people to actually fake Australian or American accents etc, and then get them to phone people half a world away and try and sell them stuff.
Globalisation huh!
Weird!
On the topic of Globalisation. Apparently Ross Perot, who ran on a platform of "protecting American jobs" has moved his accounts department to India. Over there Accountants get paid 1/10 of what they do in the U.S.So, Maybe we'll be seeing Accountants working in sweatshops soon, and not just low skilled manual labor?