Same. I'm not a native myself but have a generally good level of understanding English. Those tech support people (and the always-extremely-compressed-level-au

Same. I'm not a native myself but have a generally good level of understanding English. Those tech support people (and the always-extremely-compressed-level-audio-quality-from-56k-era) are another level: even if they are actually telling me an answer that'd work (which they rarely do), it's almost impossible to understand what they say. No one expects native-Shakespearean-level accent with lossless FLAC encoded audio, but at least a baseline level of English accent and a microphone better than a potato should be a requirement when hiring.