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A Slow Labor Day!

Ok so here I go again. Happy Labor Day especially since I'm laboring at this time! Kinda..

Working late at night on a holiday....... Boooooring! So I ended up watching movies all night at work (just don't tell the boss.)

I saw the movie Swing Girls which is a Japanese comedy about a bunch of japanese girls stuck during vacation making up for poor scores in math who deliver bento's (lunches) to the highschool band and in the process end up spoiling all the lunches and getting the whole band sick then having to create a band to replace the ones they made sick. I thought it was really funny.

Next I saw Fearless with Jet Li. He plays a real life martial artist Huo Yuanjia during the turn of the century. When I started reading more about the real life person from Wikipedia, the movie sounded so fake. Even more than a 'Wire Fu' movie should be. But I guess all in all the action was good. You really can't go too wrong with a Jet Li asian produced movie. I'm not too big a fan of any of his U.S. produced releases.

When I do actually have to work, with the time difference and the country most of our calls tonight come from overseas and mainly from India. I swear Hawaiians and Mexicans ain't got nothing on Indian names. You spend half the call trying to spell the users names. That and theres a few from some departments where most of us here swear that one of the requirements to work there is that you can speak just enough english to be dangerous!

You end up having to make them spell their names phonetically as in 'I' as in apple and 'yay' as in ankee (yankee) or our personal favorite 'X' as in X-mas!

You can tell when an agent is talking to someone whose accent is so heavy that they can't either understand you or you them. You get the agent repeating things 2 to 3 times in a row and each time getting louder and louder:

"Is there anything else I can help you with? NO IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE I CAN HELP YOU WITH!?!"

It's pretty fun when its not you and really frustrating if it is. Luckly most of them are really nice. But some of the guys here are pretty harsh making fun of them.

But I bet they have a field day making fun of us too:

"They say 'Z' instead of 'zed,' or they rather say '66' instead of 'double 6' HAH FOOLS! all of them! You silly Americans! I fart in your general direction!"

Ok so the last part was french (Monty Python and The Holy Grail.)

Or maybe doing all of our comments with a President George Bush accent. Now that would be funny!

Well time to finish off my timesheet full of holiday pay for doing nothing! Cheers!

**On a quick side note I got a link in the side bar to our flickr pictures. It posts right to a slide show but if you look at the top there is a link just straight to the pictures. Most of you have seen them already so nothing new. But if we do post new stuff I'll mention it in my posts.

Comments

Jerin said…
Yo bro! Nice job! heheh. I need to quit and go work over at your place. Or at least go hang out over there some more. :)
5/9/06 9:41 AM
Keoki said…
I dunno Jerin I don't think you wanna keep the hours I keep 9pm-6am hah!
5/9/06 4:21 PM
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