Fred's Service Department.

[AUFred]

* For assistance in English press #1.
* For assistance in Spanish or any other language press any key except 1. You obviously don't need help from me. We pride ourselves in giving assistance to hard working Americans who care enough to speak the language.
Upon pressing any key except 1 the next sound you hear is...<DIALTONE>

 

[AnitaBeer]

:clap:clap:clap

 

[pjbleek]

* For assistance in English press #1.
* For assistance in Spanish or any other language press any key except 1. You obviously don't need help from me. We pride ourselves in giving assistance to hard working Americans who care enough to speak the language.
Upon pressing any key except 1 the next sound you hear is...<DIALTONE>

:usa::usa::usa::usa::usa::usa:

 

[skyblue]

the eastern europeans over here are fuming because employers are insisting that they can speak english

 

[Boomerang]

There are plenty of hard working people in this country who haven't learned the language enough to acquire assistance through an automated telephone system. Not trying to be a drama stirrer. I think people need to learn English if they live here but learning it takes time. People who come to this great country to make a better life for themselves need help in the transition.

*presses 1* What am I getting assistance with anyway?

 

[skyblue]

There are plenty of hard working people in this country who haven't learned the language enough to acquire assistance through an automated telephone system. Not trying to be a drama stirrer. I think people need to learn English if they live here but learning it takes time. People who come to this great country to make a better life for themselves need help in the transition.

*presses 1* What am I getting assistance with anyway?

if you employ a non english speaking person,how do you teach them health and safety rules,and how do you train them in the job?

 

[AUFred]

There are plenty of hard working people in this country who haven't learned the language enough to acquire assistance through an automated telephone system. Not trying to be a drama stirrer. I think people need to learn English if they live here but learning it takes time. People who come to this great country to make a better life for themselves need help in the transition.

*presses 1* What am I getting assistance with anyway?

I have a world of respect for someone who tries to learn the English. It is a tough language to learn. I just am tired of us enabling people not to learn English by furnishing them everything in a different language. It is my understanding in Alabama we can give the driver's test in over 20 languages...What language are the road signs?

 

[Siphorous]

20 different languages allowable for a test? Crazy.

Perhaps the Empire should have stretched further and therefore spread English further. One of the few good things about the Empire, although I'm all for diversity I do concur - having decided to stay in a particular place, one cannot remain a silo and refuse to make their own lives easier by not fitting in as well as they otherwise could.

 

[AUFred]

20 different languages allowable for a test? Crazy.

Perhaps the Empire should have stretched further and therefore spread English further. One of the few good things about the Empire, although I'm all for diversity I do concur - having decided to stay in a particular place, one cannot remain a silo and refuse to make their own lives easier by not fitting in as well as they otherwise could.

Exactly. At least make an effort to become part of where you live. Not expect the rest of the nation to conform to you.

 

[Azazel]

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[Boomerang]

if you employ a non english speaking person,how do you teach them health and safety rules,and how do you train them in the job?

Wait. Who am I employing? I am talking about people who need assistance with whatever the hell they are calling for. So since they don't know English, they shouldn't be able to receive any help? Seems wrong.

And as far as road signs go...most of them have pictures. And I am sure people new to the country would quickly learn the words on the more common ones.