Working with Foreigners

[Japher]

Yeah, so what, I'm an ass...

I really hate it when my coworkers talk to each other in another language, especially one I don't know (which is any language but English). Then when you talk to them the have a hard time understanding you and when they talk back at you, you still have no idea what they are saying. It makes it really hard to work them, and I am getting fed up with it, and will request to never work with them again if they continue to speak in another language.

Why?

Because they aren't even trying to work with me!
They aren't even trying to work for this company!
They aren't even trying to become a contributing part of this society!

It really, really irks me. SPEAK ENGLISH YOU *****!

Anyway, it is illegal for them to speak any language but English on the Manufacturing floor, so I have them there. Yet, they end up just keeping their mouths shut!

Contribute damn it!!!!

Are they talking about me?

Sorry for the rant.

Am I being a *****? Or is this problem really not mine at all, and they should speak English?... By the way they are speaking some kind of Asian language, and I can't tell those apart.

It just makes me mad.

[SlowwHand]

You ought to listen to the Spanish gibberish that goes on.
Wait a sec. California, same problem.

I blame that bastard Michael, personally.
And Ramo. That jackass.

And Ming. That, whatever the hell he is.

[rah]

More candidates for Sensitivity training.

I have rejected applications from minority candidates that couldn't make themselves understood well enough during the interview. I've had to tape record some of the interviews to keep me out of hot water with HR.

[DAVOUT]

Je n'ai pas compris, pouvez-vous répéter plus lentement. Merci.

[Dis]

It's your responsibility to learn their language.

What's funny in that in my city mexicans get really upset because we don't speak their language. They throw a fit when casino employees can't speak spanish.

[Adalbertus]

You can't dicatate people what language to use. To make it illegal to use some other language is even more ridiculous. --
On the other hand, it is annoying to have seminars etc. in English (!) only because some people don't want to learn German, French, Danish etc.

[Dinner]

A company can most certainly insist people use a certain language while at work.

[Lord Merciless]

People always prefer to use the best common language among them. It annoys me a little, but not too much.

[Chris Wilkinson]

I worked for a bit over the summer at a factory in Corby (most of you probably haven't heard of the place...to put it simply, it's a bigish town in England inhabited by Scots) with a friend - he was doing the nightshift. While talking to some of the other's he got told not to bother to try and talk to one guy as he's Romanian and didn't speak English.

He promplety spoke to the bloke and found that he did in fact speak good English. The accents of the people in Corby is generally very strong and so it prevented them from being able to communicate with each other - my friend then had to translate, despite the fact that both sides were talking in English!

[Zero]

Originally posted by Dissident
It's your responsibility to learn their language.

What's funny in that in my city mexicans get really upset because we don't speak their language. They throw a fit when casino employees can't speak spanish.

Yeah, when I used to work in HS, most of the employees were hispanics. I learned more spanish during work than during my HS class. And they were useful too. And I needed them or else I would have been isolated.

[Snotty]

Japher, get your head out of your ass. At least they are trying to talk your language. Insisting they have no social interaction at work because they cant speak well in any language other than their own is absurd.

[Zero]

Re: Working with Foreigners

[QUOTE] Originally posted by Japher

Are they talking about me?

Am I being a *****? Or is this problem really not mine at all, and they should speak English?... By the way they are speaking some kind of Asian language, and I can't tell those apart.
[QUOTE]

1. 99% of the time they're laughing at something else other than you.
2. relax.
3. It ur problem
4. ONCE I caught 2 japanese girls talking **** abou tme that was funny cause i pretended not to understand.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Hey, Japher:

I am a foreigner in my workplace. I don't have a decent command of Turkish, and sometimes the only way I can express the full complexity of what I want to say is in my native tongue; besides, its just easier to talk to someone who understands my native language in that language. The two or three Germans I work with, who have coffee and Deutsch-gab every morning, seem to feel the same way. So, as we say in Turkish, Bite Me.

And, yeah, they are talking about you. Roughly translated, they're saying, "I'm not going to talk to the intolerant loser who spends all day on a gaming forum; you go talk to him."

[Ramo]

Anyway, it is illegal for them to speak any language but English on the Manufacturing floor, so I have them there.

Illegal?

[Jack_www]

Originally posted by Dissident
It's your responsibility to learn their language.

What's funny in that in my city mexicans get really upset because we don't speak their language. They throw a fit when casino employees can't speak spanish.

Why when 90% or more of the people at work speak english? They should learn to speak English if they want to countie to work for a company in the United States!