Are The People In India Given British Names When You Have To Contact,sky And Amazon And Probably Many More?

[Bobbisox1]

I had to call Amazon Kindle yesterday for my 82 yr old sister in law who was here ,eventually got through
“ hello this is Brittany “ How can I help you today?

[barry1010]

Yes, they are. Although I was caught out on my back foot when I phoned Virgin a while back. I asked the very heavily accented young man where abouts in India he lived and he very abruptly told me he was born in Newcastle and lived there all his life. By the end of the conversation I was in no doubt that he was being truthful.

[Bobbisox1]

Haha,I’d have had to say where in Newcastle as I’m from outside of there :0)

[CrapAtCryptics]

I had an Amazon scam call the other day and the Asian "gentleman" was wasting his time as I couldnt understand a word he was mumbling before I told him to go away.

[Bobbisox1]

Did you actually say “ Go Away” C@C?
Asking gif a friend hehe

[MartinMillar]

They are given pseudo names as are many that work in call centres in the uk

[Canary42]

Way way back in 1989 I visited a Call Centre in Weybridge to watch a demonstration of a software system my Company were considering adopting. The system took incoming calls and then displayed the appropriate response for the operator to enounce. While watching it I observed one which said,"Good Morning, [Company] Cardiff Call Centre, Rebecca speaking, how can I help you" which the lass obediently trotted out. The system identified the region (from the number dialled, all sites having local numbers) and used that [Company] site in the response message although all calls came through to Weybridge. The demonstrator claimed people were more friendly if they thought they were dealing with locals. It didn't go as far as regional accents though, which could have been fun.

[Bobbisox1]

Interesting Canary, thank you

[rowanwitch]

Yes, so when they ask for mine I offer to make one up too so we are even.

[Bobbisox1]

^^^ good idea :0)

[Peter Pedant]

yes they are
I had an operative form BT hur hur hur
telling me my internet was slow because of international pirates etc

and when she said she needed to check my connections and details - I pointed out that she had them because that was why she was phoning me

tassers

[10ClarionSt]

I heard that all Chinese in this country have to have British first names, eg George; Mary etc. Is it true?

[fiction-factory]

No according to this list of Chinese footballers who have played in the English Premier League
Dong Fangzhuo – Manchester United – 2006–07
Li Tie – Everton – 2002–04
Li Weifeng – Everton – 2002–03
Sun Jihai – Manchester City – 2002–08
Nico Yennaris – Arsenal – 2011–12[b ENG][c ENG U19]
Zheng Zhi – Charlton Athletic – 2

[Samuraisan]

I know South Koreans adopt European names too. Sometimes at birth, especially if they are Christian. It's because us Westerners would never remember their Korean names, so says our SK friend.

[10ClarionSt]

Thats correct ff, but I know of school children who had to use British first names. In don't know if that is just a school thing though.

[retrocop]

//“ hello this is Brittany “ How can I help you today? //

Did you have your hearing aid connected to the loop? Bobs.
She might have said "hello this is Byriani"