One Night at the Call Center

One Night at the Call Center
Title One Night at the Call Center PDF eBook
Author Chetan Bhagat
Publisher Ballantine Books
Pages 322
Release 2008-12-10
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0307489086

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Press 1 for technical support. Press 2 for broken hearts. Press 3 if your life has totally crashed. . . . Six friends work nights at a call center in India, providing technical support for a major U.S. appliance corporation. Skilled in patience–and accent management–they help American consumers keep their lives running. Yet behind the headsets, everybody’s heart is on the line. Shyam (Sam to his callers) has lost his self-confidence after being dumped by the girl who just so happens to be sitting next to him. Priyanka’s domineering mother has arranged for her daughter’s upscale marriage to an Indian man in Seattle. Esha longs to be a model but discovers it’s a horizontal romp to the runway. Lost, dissatisfied Vroom has high ideals, but compromises them by talking on the phone to idiots each night. Traditional Radhika has just found out that her husband is sleeping with his secretary. And Military Uncle (nobody knows his real name) sits alone working the online chat. They all try to make it through their shifts–and maintain their sanity–under the eagle eye of a boss whose ego rivals his incompetence. But tonight is no ordinary night. Tonight is Thanksgiving in America: Appliances are going haywire, and the phones are ringing off their hooks. Then one call, from one very special caller, changes everything. Chetan Bhagat’s delicious romantic comedy takes us inside the world of the international call center, where cultural cross-wires come together with perfect pathos, hilarity, and spice.

One Night Two Souls Went Walking

One Night Two Souls Went Walking
Title One Night Two Souls Went Walking PDF eBook
Author Ellen Cooney
Publisher Coffee House Press
Pages 158
Release 2020-11-10
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1566896037

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A young interfaith chaplain is joined on her hospital rounds one night by an unusual companion: a rough-and-tumble dog who may or may not be a ghost. As she tends to the souls of her patients—young and old, living last moments or navigating fundamentally altered lives—their stories provide unexpected healing for her own heartbreak. Balancing wonder and mystery with pragmatism and humor, Ellen Cooney (A Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances) returns to Coffee House Press with a generous, intelligent novel that grants the most challenging moments of the human experience a shimmer of light and magical possibility.

Working the Night Shift

Working the Night Shift
Title Working the Night Shift PDF eBook
Author Reena Patel
Publisher Stanford University Press
Pages 287
Release 2010-03-25
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0804775508

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Relatively high wages and the opportunity to be part of an upscale, globalized work environment draw many in India to the call center industry. At the same time, night shift employment presents women, in particular, with new challenges alongside the opportunities. This book explores how beliefs about what constitutes "women's work" are evolving in response to globalization. Working the Night Shift is the first in-depth study of the transnational call center industry that is written from the point of view of women workers. It uncovers how call center employment affects their lives, mainly as it relates to the anxiety that Indian families and Indian society have towards women going out at night, earning a good salary, and being exposed to western culture. This timely account illustrates the ironic and, at times, unsettling experiences of women who enter the spaces and places made accessible through call center work. Visit the author's website at http://www.working-the-nightshift.com and Facebook group at www.facebook.com/WorkingtheNightShift.

Girl In Room 105

Girl In Room 105
Title Girl In Room 105 PDF eBook
Author Chetan Bhagat
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 303
Release 2024-02-23
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9354899161

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Hi, I'm Keshav, and my life is screwed. I hate my job and my girlfriend left me. Ah, the beautiful Zara. Zara is from Kashmir. She is a Muslim. And did I tell you my family is a bit, well, traditional? Anyway, leave that. Zara and I broke up four years ago. She moved on in life. I didn't. I drank every night to forget her. I called, messaged, and stalked her on social media. She just ignored me. However, that night, on the eve of her birthday, Zara messaged me. She called me over, like old times, to her hostel room 105. I shouldn't have gone, but I did... and my life changed forever. This is not a love story. It is an unlove story. From the author of Five Point Someone and 2 States, comes a fast-paced, funny and unputdownable thriller about obsessive love and finding purpose in life against the backdrop of contemporary India.

Call Me Dan

Call Me Dan
Title Call Me Dan PDF eBook
Author Anish Trivedi
Publisher Penguin Books India
Pages 277
Release 2010
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0143063308

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GAUTAM is awkward and shy; DAN oozes confidence. DAN deftly juggles his coffee and cookies; GAUTAM drops drinks. GAUTAM is afraid to talk to girls; DAN finds himself in bed with girls he's only just met . Gautam Joshi is thirty years old; with a job in a call center that his parents think is just one step up from unemployment and in a relationship that his girlfriend Michelle thinks is going nowhere. But Gautam loves his world. He makes more money than his father, and women actually want to go out with him: Blonde bombshells, friends of friends, strangers in bars, all seem attracted to Gautam. Well, not quite. That only happens when they call him Dan. Anish Trivedi's Call Me Dan is a hilarious look at the new India, where arranged marriages and one-night stands are all part of a young man's search for love. Even true love.

Five Point Someone

Five Point Someone
Title Five Point Someone PDF eBook
Author Chetan Bhagat
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2005
Genre
ISBN 9788129121387

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Half Girlfriend

Half Girlfriend
Title Half Girlfriend PDF eBook
Author Chetan Bhagat
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2017-04-25
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9788129124029

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This book comes a simple and beautiful love story that will touch your heart and inspire you to chase your dreams.