The consequences of outsourcing have the potential to be more dire than anyone could have predicted. Just listen in on this transcript of one such out-sourced call:
Outsourced Answering Service: Mental Health Hotline. How may I be to help you?
Caller: Absolutely nothing in my life is going the way I want.
Outsourced Answering Service: And how are you to feel about that?
Caller: I’m so depressed that I cry most of the time.
Outsourced Answering Service: And how do those selfish infidel actions make you feel?
Caller: Quite frankly, lately I’m beginning to feel that the only solution to my problems is suicide.
Outsourced Answering Service: Wonderful! Can you drive a truck?
Isn’t it amazing the lengths some people will go to make a point? This becomes especially true during political campaigns.
I suppose when you think of it, rather than choosing a political party, cats would remain independent.
On the other hand, dogs will commit. Therefore all intelligent dogs would agree that the best hope for this country in the 2008 presidential election is with the Republican Party. But does that justify this owner exploiting her pet to make a point!? You decide:
In other news: It appears that Bill Gates no longer hates this site. Pages should now render properly even for those of you who are using Internet Explore.
Pammy is the main character in the Writing Woes and Chronic Illness Realities comic strips by Pamela Rice Hahn. When Pammy dons her gray suit and assumes her counter identity of Thera Pist, you can be assured that something's inspired her to go to work as an Observational Therapist. Sometimes those Christian conservative blog observations are wordier than what can be stated in the comic strip, so the Observational Therapist sometimes also makes an in-print appearance here on this site.