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Originally Posted by RM
No apology necessary. Some parts of the Meason clan pronounce it 'Meeson', and others 'Mason'. I come from the latter. A typical call to customer support goes like this :
Representative : "Your last name " ?
Me: "Mason, spelled M-E-A-S-O-N"
Representative : "Ok Mr. Meeson, what can I help you with" ?
It's rather humorous.
And yes, the carbide lamp clue did help. Don't change a thing, the game is fine as is.
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..lol Ron, and jj, I sympathize, and BTW, hope your Holidays were enjoyable.
Last time I called a tech representative was a few weeks back for my backup cell phone, a pay-as-you-go LG throw-away job (what has society come to ?). I wanted to re-enable its service, as they have a neat little scam/incentive that mandates that you buy a minutes card every 60 days, whether you use it or not. As a backup, I didn't. So I call, and I get what I can only guess is a Polynesian thick dialect broken english that one could not possibly interpret, though she was very nice. I tried calling twice, and both times I could not understand. Not gonna sell many minutes cards that way. Thats the same number to set up a new throw-away phone, too. Not to bright. Cost effective often seems to have the 'effective' part forgotten.
I've heard many 'call centers' for misc. galore to our continent are all over the world, and some, I found, soliciting Allstate premium motor club to me, called a few times from Nova Scotia. I guessed and got lucky - because she said it was 3 hours later than my mtn. std time location. I recalled very few Continental North America locations to be in that Atlantic zone, except for as I recalled the Maritime Provinces. I took a stab at it, and asked if she was from Nova Scotia, the first to come to mind, and bingo. I had no trouble understanding her of course.
And they play hell with Dunbar, my name. invariably - OK Mr. DuMbar.....lol
Whats a guy gonna do ?
sounds like jj has the same problem too lol..... how
can you get Jones wrong ?