It's probably the comany that's at fault there,
not the foreigner.

What's the Asian gentleman to do? Do you expect him to walk into the office and say "I think I've had too many days off, if I don't start coming in more often, you're really going to have to take a look at my future with the company"?

As for the speaking-in-a-foreign-tongue to one another.. buying a car sounds like a family decision.. so let them make the family decision. And they're not going to do it in English, the same way you probably don't talk in Mandarin when you're asking people what they want from the Chinese.

Be more understanding.
( Thinker, Tue 6 May 2008, 17:25, Reply)