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Avatar Schwinn Schwinn is offline Senior Contributor Join Date:
Oct 2004 Location: Georgina Posts: 2,258 I worked in a call
centre for 3 years (the period in my life I affectionately refer
to as purgatory). One of my colleagues used to work for Bell,
and they were in fact in Canada. However, Bell was like the
centre I worked in...more than 75% of my colleagues were east
Indian. Not sure why that was, it just was. I remember one
client calling in and going on a racist tirade, yelling at me
that he had just spoke to someone in India and I was lying. The
person who he just spoke to (I pulled up the call history)
actually sat behind me. I'd of let it go, but the racist
comments were grating on my nerves. Finally, I leaned back to
the associate behind me, making sure the client heard me. "Hey,
Abdil...are we in Toronto, or India?" "Uh...I believe we are in
Toronto." "Sir, I just spoke with Abdil, and he assures me that
we are, in fact, in Toronto".  Perso