Today I received a call from a research agency asking me to do a survey about local politics ranging from the state of New Mexico to state representatives. I thought, sure, why not? A lot of questions dealt with potential candidates, people already in office, potential scenarios, would I vote this way, do I agree or disagree, and et cetera.
Some of the questions were ridiculously strange and confusing. To top this off, I had to deal with another person having to speak English as a second language. Lovely, the accent pointed me to somewhere between the Asia and the Mediterranean Sea. Anyway, after my answers were filled, then I asked the person doing this survey to answer a couple of questions, such as what research company he worked for and to give me the information about the company and a contact address and phone number.
What he gave me was Mountain West Research. So I searched for it on Google and found out that they actually exist, but what really bothered me was that on their website sounded so clean, so pure, but the person I just talked to had a hard time pronouncing people's names, especially when living in New Mexico, Spanish names are unique.
To get to my point, if then why is Mountain West Research's website show people working there as having a neutral accent, when I get a person with a distinct accent from the other side of the world interviewing me? If it is located in Pocatello, Idaho, why shouldn't I get someone who works there or at a facility in the United States? Oh wait, I forgot; we are exporting American jobs and professions in order to make a better profit for companies and investors. Sounds un-American to me to cut the lifeblood of American companies and the truth is that I would love to talk to an American interviewer on the other end of the line asking me about my local politics instead of wrapping my phoneline across the world to another human who may not understand why he or she is conducting this survey for, except to get paid and bring an income to his or her family.
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I don't know why. Sometimes it is better to say what I want to say not on LiveJournal. I have to redefine what my LJ means to me and others and probably by posting here, I can get some sense of what I want to speak about.
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