CHEAP labor in the Philippines and other developing countries is fueling all those outsourcing ventures and call centers, everyone knows that by now. So many young Pinoy adults, even the fresh-out-of-college, and even some undergrads, are pursuing the dream for a seat at some call center or the other since two years back like it were the Golden Fleece itself. 
Few, if any, of these aspirants mind if, as economists and other labor analysts often say, they are actually gettting a relatively (by international hiring rate standards) lower pay than their call center counterparts in the United States, UK or even Hongkong. Dollar is a dollar is a dollar,no matter how the total pay compares lowly with that paid in the same currency to  others. What they’d do– twist their native

tongue this way and that just to get the perfect American slang or the English tight upper lip inflection and nasal twang right over the phone — to land a job as CC hiree.  Read more