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Uk homeshoring is here!

Short video by Maygenta and British Telecom looking at homeshoring and virtual call centres and how they could help Uk companies save money in a recession. Sick of working in an office? This could be the one for you!

who here continues to get telemarketing calls from the vehicle warranty folks?

I have registered with the national do not call list and I am tired of messing with these folks and wish that they would STOP! I have requested that they stop and have informed them that the number is on the do not call list and the operators are VERY snotty and say that it is too bad…..I will continue to recieve the calls despite being on the call list. It is annoying!

Beaver County arts center plans to buy PAM assets, open school here

Beaver County arts center plans to buy PAM assets, open school here
A Beaver County arts center intends to buy the Pennsylvania Academy of Music’s assets and use them to open a school here for music, theater and dance.PAM disclosed in a U.S. Bankruptcy Court filing that the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center has agreed to buy the defunct academy’s assets for $300,0…

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I have tech support experience, where can I go from here?

I did internet tech support for 2 years, and I was pretty damn good at it. then i got laid off. I don’t want to work in call centers forever so what kind of jobs would be good to look into. Am i screwed since my type of job is being sent to india? I have a college degree and I didn’t just do tech support, I moved up to coaching ( training others on how to do tech support, QA, some technical writing like creating training packets for specific kinds of troubleshooting (ISDN, dial-up, common windows mac/software) are their specific locations I should look into? im not into programming. all these jobs i see for like networking, analysts, etc want experience that I don’t have. apparently you need experience in order to gain experience. At this point I am thinking about just working a gas station or walmart since the pay is the same as tech support.

Anyone who work here as a call center agent?

If you are working in a call center company, how do you manage irate customers?

what do you think of entering call center here in the Phillipines?

i want to be a call center agent but i don’t know it is still a booming job here in the Philippines. I also want to ask training school for call center that guides their students right after their graduation.

Do you see any problems here Fleeing Phoenix for fear of immigration law?

Reporting from Phoenix — Every time a customer buys some of the large fabric tote bags from the Dollar Store at 43rd Avenue and Thomas Road, Najmuddin Katchi sees another piece of his business vanish.

The purchase of the briefcase-sized shoulder bags means that another one of Katchi’s customers, mostly Latino immigrants, is packing to leave the state before what is touted as the nation’s toughest law against illegal immigrants takes effect July 29.

Katchi’s store isn’t the only business suffering. The vast shopping center that holds his small shop is almost empty. The Food City supermarket closed this spring. Then the furniture shop. Then the pizzeria.

The giant apartment complex across the street, once brimming with tenants, is two-thirds vacant. Katchi is behind on his rent.

“The business is broken,” said Katchi, who has operated his shop at this intersection for 14 years. “After the 29th of July, what happens? Maybe I have to close the store.”

For the last 20 years, Arizona has been one of the fastest-growing states in the nation. It depends on an expanding population to power its economy, which relies heavily on the construction of new houses.

At the corner of 43rd and Thomas, it’s hard to determine how much of the neighborhood’s woes stem from Arizona’s immigration laws and how much from the state’s economy, battered by a once red-hot housing marked that cooled. Katchi’s revenues were already sagging before April 23, when Gov. Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 into law. Since then, sales have plummeted.

In adopting the legislation the state embarked on a grand experiment — trying to drive out hundreds of thousands of its residents by what the law calls “attrition through enforcement.”

The law requires police to check the immigration status of people they lawfully stop and also suspect are in the country illegally. Civil rights groups and the Obama administration have sued to stop the law from taking effect, and a federal judge heard arguments in the case Thursday.

The departure of illegal immigrants, proponents of SB 1070 argue, can only help Arizona’s economy.

“As long as there are legal Arizona residents scrambling for jobs, a slow, steady attrition of low-wage, government-educated illegal aliens is a beneficial facet of the law,” said Bob Dane, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform in Washington, D.C., which argues for stricter immigration standards and estimates that illegal immigrants cost Arizona taxpayers $2.5 billion annually.

But it’s hard to get solid data on illegal immigrants and the economy.

A 2007 report from the Congressional Budget Office that reviewed 29 studies — but not ones from advocacy groups like FAIR — found that illegal immigrants place a “modest” burden on state budgets.

Even people whose families use more government services than they pay in taxes still help the economy, said Judith Gans of the University of Arizona’s Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy. In a 2008 study, she found that Arizona immigrants contribute $29 billion annually to the state economy, representing about 8% of its activity.

When immigrants leave, Gans said, “stores experience dramatic drops in sales. Apartment owners who rent to immigrants have high vacancy rates and risk losing their buildings. Legal workers or renters or consumers don’t generally step in quickly enough to prevent these businesses from experiencing real additional hardship.”

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-immigration-phoenix-20100723,0,6111019.story