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Local_Historian wrote: Please let me know the reasoning for saving dead batteries. I have had to throw away stashes of dead ones in the past - not my stashes either.

The rest of it - it seems a compliment, yet...

Think I'll wait for the other shoe to drop.

Battries regardless of size should be disposed of properly, there is chemicals and acids depending on the type of battries, they are bad for the enviroment.

AspenValley wrote:

Vice Lord wrote:

AspenValley wrote: PSSSTT.....I'll tell you a secret.

A lot of smart women come here because their own husbands are not fool enough to try to debate with them.

Oh I'm a fool then because I debate with Lil Precious way too much..Today it was about her need to save a dozen dead AA batteries in the junk drawer

Maybe she could explain why my husband does that. Do they think they will somehow regenerate?

(And yeah, you're probably a fool if you're here debating smart women. They'll wipe the floor with ya, you know that, don't you?)

They probably think that there's like 1% of battery power left and that it could come in handy in an end of the world senario. And
Sometimes debating is the only way to get any attention from her. I have to compete with Kindle, chrochete, the kids, the dog and The Real Housewives of New York.

I am going to admit something here that I rarely do. Sometimes, I will not talk to women when calling customer service on the phone. They are less likely to want to help with your problem and be argumentative when I have a serious issue. Especially in tech. They can be more stubborn. I did run into a gal from India that was very knowledgeable and was a real help but if I have a real problem that I know is going to require the customer service person to go outside the normal box or I have a complaint, I will call back until I get a man. Because my chances of getting my problem fixed is way higher. I feel guilty about this and every time I tell myself I am being ridiculous and try again. Then it seems the gal on the other line does it again and I call back to get a man. It is not that they are not smart it is just that I can't get anything done with someone that does not WANT to help.

Women and men are smart but in different ways. Generally there are strengths and weaknesses and different temperaments. So, when dealing in business with men your styles are vastly different (being general here) and if you are the only woman they are going to expect you to give in to the way they do things. It is not an easy road to navigate. Sometimes it is not about smart or maybe a better way to put it is, you can be smart but if you cannot play the game it doesn't matter and you won't be taken seriously. Learning how to overcome these differences is the key and there still are some automatic stereo types.

I find the temperaments, cultures and automatic stereo types to be the difference it is not about smart.

CinnamonGirl wrote: I am going to admit something here that I rarely do. Sometimes, I will not talk to women when calling customer service on the phone. They are less likely to want to help with your problem and be argumentative when I have a serious issue. Especially in tech. They can be more stubborn. I did run into a gal from India that was very knowledgeable and was a real help but if I have a real problem that I know is going to require the customer service person to go outside the normal box or I have a complaint, I will call back until I get a man. Because my chances of getting my problem fixed is way higher. I feel guilty about this and every time I tell myself I am being ridiculous and try again. Then it seems the gal on the other line does it again and I call back to get a man. It is not that they are not smart it is just that I can't get anything done with someone that does not WANT to help.

Women and men are smart but in different ways. Generally there are strengths and weaknesses and different temperaments. So, when dealing in business with men your styles are vastly different (being general here) and if you are the only woman they are going to expect you to give in to the way they do things. It is not an easy road to navigate. Sometimes it is not about smart or maybe a better way to put it is, you can be smart but if you cannot play the game it doesn't matter and you won't be taken seriously. Learning how to overcome these differences is the key and there still are some automatic stereo types.

I find the temperaments, cultures and automatic stereo types to be the difference it is not about smart.

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You need to put a language warning on that. This is going to the ring soon and then we can have some fun. LOL

I used to work in a customer service center. That is way more common than you would think. I used to have people cry to me and I was more of a psychiatrist then a customer service provider.

CinnamonGirl wrote: You need to put a language warning on that. This is going to the ring soon and then we can have some fun. LOL

I used to work in a customer service center. That is way more common than you would think. I used to have people cry to me and I was more of a psychiatrist then a customer service provider.

I always engage them in conversation..If they're in India I always start asking them about elephants and not eating hamburgers there and everything, and If it's a female I always tell her how well she spreaks english, "better than most Americans!" even. They are judged and their very status within the company depends on how well they speak American, so they really like hearing that, and at the end of the call I always tell them "great job प्रिय"

Yeah, but they need to have the expertise. I know you all are going to hate me for this but as far as tech support, the India customer service has been way superior to US. HP is really good.

CinnamonGirl wrote: Yeah, but they need to have the expertise. I know you all are going to hate me for this but as far as tech support, the India customer service has been way superior to US. HP is really good.

They invest a higher % of their GDP in education there than we do.. I believe higher education is free there.

Vice Lord wrote:

CinnamonGirl wrote: Yeah, but they need to have the expertise. I know you all are going to hate me for this but as far as tech support, the India customer service has been way superior to US. HP is really good.

They invest a higher % of their GDP in education there than we do.. I believe higher education is free there.

Way more people there go to college and most of it is IT from what I heard.

CinnamonGirl wrote:

Vice Lord wrote:

CinnamonGirl wrote: Yeah, but they need to have the expertise. I know you all are going to hate me for this but as far as tech support, the India customer service has been way superior to US. HP is really good.

They invest a higher % of their GDP in education there than we do.. I believe higher education is free there.

Way more people there go to college and most of it is IT from what I heard.

Which is why you can hire a crack programmer there for $5 an hour.