Does this come under Racism???

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
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Message Posted:
03/01/2010 11:13

Just had a phone call from a lady (very posh voice) came in on the TRNC Healthcare phone. I answered my usual way she said "oh you are Scottish is there anyone else I can talk to", when I said sorry no not at this moment she hung up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



What did I do wrong?



Chris (totally baffled)



p.s. private number so can't phone it back.

Navek



Joined: 01/06/2008
Posts: 2656

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 11:19

Hi nurseawful,

Wonder what her response would've been if it was Sean Connery

Or

What would've Gordon Ramsey's response have been to her

Or

Even Rab C Nesbitt?????????????

Navek

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 11:27

Very rude Chris

If she needed help that bad she would have spoken to you

Navek



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Posts: 2656

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 11:28

Hi nurseawful

Got just the person to answer the phone for you....

He's got a pleasant phone manner

Jerry Sadowitz,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Sadowitz

Navek

Ballyboffin


Joined: 25/08/2007
Posts: 903

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 11:32

Don't worry about it nurseawful, I have had similiar experiences with my Northern Ireland accent and I wonder if those who speak with "marbles in their mouths" ( I am not mentioning where they may be from ! ) cannot understand what we are saying?



Think of times when we have had to speak to someone at a call centre in Delhi and don't take it personally.

Tiggy


Joined: 25/07/2007
Posts: 1994

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 11:35

nurseawful,



I would not let it bother you. Probabilly a silly old lady that has had her backside wiped all her life.



Racist.....nah she's not....if it had been me calling.....then yeah!



Happy New year to you.



XX

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 11:36

how rude. cant have needed help that badlyx

nurseawful



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Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 11:38

Actually I am still laughing about it and yes Navek wonder if we could get Rab C Nesbitt over to answer the phone that would really baffle everyone including me!

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 12:07

She must have a problem with the Scots! Ridiculous!

nurseawful



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Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 12:25

Deehacker,

Come on she understood that she had the correct number and believe it or not I am probably easier to understand on the telephone as I tend to slow down!



Plus most peoples accents can be quite pronounced no matter where they come from, if in doubt you can always say pardon and ask someone to repeat themselves!



If she had to go to a Dr or nurse in the UK goodness knows what kind of accent she would be faced with!



Chris

elko2



Joined: 24/07/2007
Posts: 4400

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 13:02

Nurseawful,

I know what upset you. If you had a chance to say something before she hang up it would have been fine.

It reminded me of this man living in the first social housing estate in Famagusta. It was about 2 a.m. and the telephone rang. He answered and the chap at the other end insulted him for staying up so late and hang up. He could not sleep until the morning because he did not have a chance to hit back. Its human anture.

ismet

dizzycows


Joined: 12/05/2009
Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 13:53

When I have a problem with accent, I will always explain to the caller that I am slightly deaf and could they speak slowly!!! this usually works, ......... Then no body feels insulted....

yorkie58


Joined: 16/09/2008
Posts: 245

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 14:13

I don't believe the nurse was upset, she was just sharing a funny moment with us.

simbas



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Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 14:18

Do you think it was a genuine caller Chris ?

nurseawful



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Message Posted:
03/01/2010 14:19

Yorkie

You are correct I wasn't upset and do think it is funny now,



But at the time I was more than a little bit annoyed by the ladys rudeness.



Chris

measey


Joined: 07/02/2009
Posts: 1037

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 14:25

Hi chris.



probaly had her head up her bum.



Keith.

daisy dukes


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Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 14:56

I think that's rather funny...i bet she'l call back later looking for an 'english' speaking operator...please let us know if she does! i take my little giggles where i can these days!





DD

Jeannie


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Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 14:58

Chris - does maker you wonder, too, how she gets on with the locals



J

nurseawful



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Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 15:01

Simbas not sure as we have had a few odd calls over the last few months but normally they are very long winded and intense usually not about the caller them self but about a third party.



maybe she just didn't like the sound of my voice who knows.



DD I actually think it is funny now and can laugh but was initially annoyed, if you sounded a bit posher I might have thought it was you!!!!!!!!!!!! (just kidding)



Chris

booitsme


Joined: 04/02/2009
Posts: 667

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 15:08

It reminds me of my return flight to Stanstead from the Newcastle. I had gone through security and was just entering duty free when a well dressed, well spoken gentleman stopped me to ask if I shop using a credit card. I just said "No", nothing more just a simple no (well, it was silly o clock in the morning). He then asked if I am British, to which I replied "Yes, but I live in north Cyprus". He came back with "Oh, I thought you looked foreign!" Figure that one out, it had me laughing for most of my journey home

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 17:47

and it makes you wonder why our banks have call centres in india , no im not racist but i would rather listen to a scots voice anyday

Dixie Normus


Joined: 22/02/2008
Posts: 820

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 17:52

When I joined the forces i constantly had people asking me to speak slower as thay could'nt understand a word I said ( Geordie type/ Sunderland lingo) when I returned to the Norhteast after a few years away the folks at home all said I sounded like a a posh talking southern git, you can't win. Now I'm just a loud mouthed garolous sexist pig the missus says, good to see I'm getting better with age.



D.N

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 18:20

God only knows what accent I have, Irish born and raised for a number of years and 30 plus living in Cardiff. Yet Im aolways asked if I come from Surrey or Bucks, not a trace of Irish or Welsh sad. Yet for my first 5 years I only spoke gaellic xx

Maz


Joined: 29/03/2009
Posts: 1924

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 19:18

Be fair, - maybe the woman was like 'im downstairs! Accents throw him completely and utterly, plus he is deafr so the phone is even more impossible.

Give the lady the benefit of the doubt! Maybe she is a female version of my beloved.

daisy dukes


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Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 19:53

msg 20, Chris...What do you mean 'a bit posher';.......i'm dead posh i am...no trace of any accent whatsoever, i know this, because i work very hard to maintain it!!!! LMAO







DD

loslobos


Joined: 02/04/2009
Posts: 167

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 19:58

Jocks deserve all they get, whingers all of 'em !



Can't wait fer the25th !!





Yours,



Hamish (from Hamilton)

Coachie



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Posts: 2135

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 20:40

Chris ..perhaps she thought she had dialled a number in Scotland and really did not now what to say.Next time Answer in Turkish see what happens then...

Lemtich



Joined: 15/02/2007
Posts: 1487

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 23:28

I detist racism. My grandfather died at Auschtwitz.

Lemtich



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Posts: 1487

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 23:29

He fell off a machine gun tower!

elko2



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Posts: 4400

Message Posted:
03/01/2010 23:47

Oh Ken, I am glad you are back. Where have you been all this time?

ismet

nurseawful



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Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
04/01/2010 09:33

Message 28



The number is 0533 884 5621 don't think that would get you through to Scotland, do you??? As for answering in Turkish well that really would baffle anyone.



MarieB Unfortunately this is not the first weird phone call we have had, and not always me answering the phone!!



Chris