really annoying commerical with a message

[B Dids]

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Most of the time when this happens the person you are speaking to isn't actually in this fine country, but rather in a call center in India or somewhere. I'm not saying it's cool to have customer service reps who barely speak English, but the blame lies with the companies trying to save a buck rather than the poor dude trying to feed his family in Bangladesh.

Swede

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This is correct.

As I said to a friend last week.

"I don't hate you 'cause you can't speak english, but I hate the fact that the company that hires your company chooses to put people who can't communicate with their customers in front line customer service positions".

[imported_The Vibesman]

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Anyways, if I were at a restaurant and I asked for wheat bread but got white because my waiter/server couldn't speak english, I would be annoyed.

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But you'd be annoyed if the bread was wrong for whatever reason, not just a language problem. I think the point here is that the waiter/server not speaking English as a first language is not necessarily the reason the bread order is wrong. Amazingly enough, people who do speak English just fine are able to screw up orders too, and for many reasons other than a simple misunderstanding.

I agree that someone should be able to do his/her job. Not understanding English is just one more reason an incompetent person can't do his/her job. I see no reason to single these people out from all the English-speaking retards who also screw up their jobs on a daily basis. I find them all annoying.

As usual, I don't really think I have a point.

[xadrez]

To add further to your "no-point", Id also like to add that there are a great number of pure bread americans who dont know how to speak proper english. So demarcating the line between non-american non-proper english speakers and american non-proper english speakers is also redundant.

[BradleyT]

When I saw the thread title I could have bet the first line would be...

"While shopping for a car today, what to my suprise.."

[tonypaladino]

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Personally, I prefer pumpernickel, if ya catch my drift.

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Once you go flax you never go backs.

[bwana devil]

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wtf is it even supposed to prove?

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i havent seen this commerical. from the sound of it, it makes a horrid point. in a previous thread last week, i mentioned hiring (presumably) an illegal to do some painting at my house. we painted the day away. i speak (very) broken spanish and we got the job done.

to hire someone that has difficulty communicating w/ the public in a customer service position seems to make bad business sense.

bwana