That does not even REMOTELY make sense!

[mathnerd]

Honestly the super perky, happy tone that many CS reps have annoys me to no end. On occasion, it sounds real and doesn't bother me. The rest of the time it sounds contrived and just pisses me off.

[Mr Hero]

Our accent would drive her nuts. We have a tendency to say "malk" instead of "milk", "

But I always drink plenty of...malk?

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I got a ridicously cheap unlimited data plane, because I started it several years ago, 2012 I think. I might be needing a new phone soon so I'm looking at sim free or unlocked PAYG so I can keep the nifty plan.

That's usually the rub right there w/those grandfathered plans. They're only good as long as you have the same phone you had when the plan went out of effect.

Meaning, if you were to upgrade your phone, you're stuck having to upgrade your plan as well.

[XCashier]

Of course, she'd probably think she was talking to a "foreign" call center anyways.

Don't tell her you're in New Mexico; she'd go "I knew it! Damn foreigners!"

[Minflick]

MY SIL has upgraded 3 times that I know of. Has AT&T unlimited data, still on his very old grandfathered plan. Upgrades don't appear to matter.

[Sparklyturtle]

Hey, I was born in Texas, but as I only spent a total of three weeks there I don't sound like it. In fact, I've managed to stump just about all of those who who think they can tell where I'm from because I don't sound like I'm from anywhere in particular. This is true - I was an Air Force dependent, so grew up all over.

As for stuttering, I used to transcribe reports for two Radiology residents who both stuttered. One was worse than the other, but I found that I could transcribe their reports in just about the same amount of time that it took them to dictate them, e.g. a 5-minute report took me 5 minutes to transcribe. This is very unusual, as 5-minute reports could take up to 20 minutes to transcribe depending on how familiar I was with the provider and if they knew what they were talking about (you'd think some of them were paid by the word). As a result I got all of the stutterers' dictations, which didn't bother me a bit. One of the most challenging doctors I've ever transcribed was a Pakistani doctor who stammered, but once I figured out what her triggers were (in her case the long I sound) I had no trouble with her dictations.