Depression from accents?

skippi90 said:
Is it possible to become depressed by hearing a different accent to your own all day?

It was my first normal day at the call centre today and it deals with mainland UK. I'm Northern Irish and have never left the country. Listening to accents from all over the UK today without one person from N.I. depressed me. (No offence meant to anyone.)

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I'd personally be more depressed at the thought of never having left the country, I've got no doubts that Norn Irn is lovely but so is Edinburgh and I'm very glad that I've been to other places.

I've never experienced being depressed by hearing accents other than my own but since most people I've asked struggle to identify where in Scotland I'm from I'd be down a lot of the time if I had to listen for my own accent.

//edit and if you want to hear more Norn Irish accents, come to Dundee, you can barely walk down the street without tripping over at least three folk from there.
 
Steve2000 said:
Tripping over at least three of them? Has it really got that bad up there?
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I'm not trying to imply that they're all begging in the streets but yes, I know an awful lot of people from N.I. who either study here or now work here. I have no idea why this place should be an enclave of Norn Irn but that's how it appears at times. Lucky they're generally a pleasant bunch. :)
 
Grrrrr said:
You're depressed because you work in a call centre - accents have nothing to do with it

(trust me i know!)
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This.

Also it is a bit sad sometimes. I live in Edinburgh so I still meet the odd N.I. person and its not too bad when it different Scottish accents I hear. When i'm surrounded by English people for ages that can get a bit depressing due to their accents (no offense).
 
Well atleast I can understand your accent..

There was a guy I knew from cork and for a while I really struggled to understand what he was saying..
he would say something and I would like huh? then he was like 'ibguhioejo boijooidjod oivbjod' then I would be like Huh? then he would start to repeat it for the 3rd time and I would work it out half way though :D that or I would just nodd and be like 'yehh' :cool:

I soon got use to irish accents as my housemate was irish too :p people think sober Irish accents are hard to understand ..But try understanding them when they are drunk :p:p:p
 
The Irish accent makes my blood boil. I don't know why but hearing it just drives me crazy and I generate a massive hate for anyone I meet with the accent. It makes me angry and gets me pretty worked up. Welsh, scottish, northern, southern, foreign I can handle no problem. But Irish just gets to me for some reason. I'm from London with a southern accent. Girls with american accents i find so hot. End of weird post.

Edit: Just wondering to myself why I felt the need to post this and realised that the thread just made me think of irish accent which got me narked.
 
Girls with Irish accents are hot. Also Geordie, for some reason.
I've got probably the worst accent: Cornish. Tho mine isn't as strong as some.
 
mike5678 said:
The Irish accent makes my blood boil. I don't know why but hearing it just drives me crazy and I generate a massive hate for anyone I meet with the accent. It makes me angry and gets me pretty worked up. Welsh, scottish, northern, southern, foreign I can handle no problem. But Irish just gets to me for some reason. I'm from London with a southern accent. Girls with american accents i find so hot. End of weird post.

Edit: Just wondering to myself why I felt the need to post this and realised that the thread just made me think of irish accent which got me narked.
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Homo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=732qBYxjYaI&feature=related
 
Ah call centre work.....about as close as you can come to actually living the life of a battery hen. (Unless you happen to be Kerry Katona of course.) I managed, somehow, to hack almost 2 years of inbound customer service work for two different mobile networks, and very nearly lost the will to live.

In short, it's probably not the accent's bothering you, it's probably the job. Soul destroying's a good term to describe working in a call centre in my experience.
 
The Funktopus said:
Ah call centre work.....about as close as you can come to actually living the life of a battery hen. (Unless you happen to be Kerry Katona of course.) I managed, somehow, to hack almost 2 years of inbound customer service work for two different mobile networks, and very nearly lost the will to live.

In short, it's probably not the accent's bothering you, it's probably the job. Soul destroying's a good term to describe working in a call centre in my experience.
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To be perfectly honest, I can't hack it. I've a feeling I could quite in the next few days. I've never been so depressed in a job in my life. :(
 
skippi90 said:
To be perfectly honest, I can't hack it. I've a feeling I could quite in the next few days. I've never been so depressed in a job in my life. :(
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You've got my sympathies mate, there's not much worse than waking up and facing the prospect of spending the next 8 hours doing a job you despise. The only thing you can do is keep trying mate, get your CV out there and tap up as many agencies as you can in the hope of finding something better.

I'm in a similar situation myself, I'm currently working as a transport administrator for a large brewer and I find myself sick of what I do. I suppose I've just hit the wall with being cooped up in offices after 6 years of doing office based jobs. I've applied for a training position with a local chemical firm for process operators, and had my interview last Tuesday which I'm hoping to hear back from shortly. I'm just longing for the day I'm not a slave to a telephone (or my warbling tormentor as I recall it) or an email account.

Best of luck mate, just try to bear in mind that it's just a job, it's not going to be forever. ;)
 
The Funktopus said:
You've got my sympathies mate, there's not much worse than waking up and facing the prospect of spending the next 8 hours doing a job you despise. The only thing you can do is keep trying mate, get your CV out there and tap up as many agencies as you can in the hope of finding something better.

I'm in a similar situation myself, I'm currently working as a transport administrator for a large brewer and I find myself sick of what I do. I suppose I've just hit the wall with being cooped up in offices after 6 years of doing office based jobs. I've applied for a training position with a local chemical firm for process operators, and had my interview last Tuesday which I'm hoping to hear back from shortly. I'm just longing for the day I'm not a slave to a telephone (or my warbling tormentor as I recall it) or an email account.

Best of luck mate, just try to bear in mind that it's just a job, it's not going to be forever. ;)
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I actually went to every computer repair shop in town this morning before my shift started and was as close to begging for a job as I've ever came. One place says they will look at my CV but there are very few jobs in my area. :(

I have worked as a bartender and a shop assistant in the part.

I enjoyed the bar job and didn't mind the shop job but this has me stressed and depressed.
 
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