I hate speaking to them.
I feel like such a racist. "I'm sorry 'Gary' (if indeed that is your real name), but I can't understand a fucking word you're saying."
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 29 Jun 2011, 10:17, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I agree
but I don't think it is racist if you actually can't understand what they are saying.

I recall my mum telling me she had the same thing in person with a doctor. Mum kept having to ask her to repeat herself and the women seemed to take it as being deliberate and racist.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 29 Jun 2011, 10:21, Reply)

Whenever I get bloods done, it's normally someone foreign... I need to make conversation when that's happening, conversation about anything that isn't what is happening.
So I ask them where they're from generally, "Oh, is it nice there? What's the food like? Do you go home often?...etc", as I have absolutly nothing in common. A few times people have taken it as a racist thing, "What is wrong coming from Hungry?" and stuff like that, so I say "Nah', nothing, I'm just making conversation and am interested in where people come from, their cultures and all that".
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 29 Jun 2011, 10:24, Reply)

odd that someone would see that as racist
people are too sensitive I suspect. In fact, it's most likely political correctness gone mad
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 29 Jun 2011, 10:26, Reply)

It's rare that happens, but it does happen. I'm afraid it really wouldn't suprise me, what with working in the NHS, they come across a lot of people who belittle forign workers there.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 29 Jun 2011, 10:29, Reply)

it's stupid
people should be belittled because they are shit, not because of where they are from.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 29 Jun 2011, 10:36, Reply)

"Yes, my name is Garry Smith and I am from London in England..... excuse me while I look up on the 'net what the weather is".
I switch companies if I see them using them, they can't do anything beyond read a script, might as well go fully automated. It's not racist, if they did that anywhere in the world with a non-nativly-english-speaking staff then they would have the same problem. It's quite damming that BT, who own BT Wholesale, who control the entire telephone network (more or less), can't compete with their own prices and have to outsource to an entirely other country 2/3s of the way around the world.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 29 Jun 2011, 10:22, Reply)