English as a First Language? Don't Learn Another Language Then.

[Odin]

Tusen takk (thank you in Norwegian) Combat Ingrid

[mrmitchell]

Denne Americanism er en av de hovedgrunnene hvorfor ingen utlendinger liker oss.

[Saint Marcus]

onzin

[Combat Ingrid]

Originally posted by Odin
Tusen takk (thank you in Norwegian) Combat Ingrid

Ingen orsak (no problem)

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

One drawback of unversal English is that the jobs of 400,000 British call centre employees are under threat due to relocation to India. BT are actively promoting this.

[Combat Ingrid]

Originally posted by Saint Marcus
onzin

That's just nonsense!

[Meticulous Man]

Vi har inte haft en svensktråd på länge

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[Solly]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
One drawback of unversal English is that the jobs of 400,000 British call centre employees are under threat due to relocation to India. BT are actively promoting this.

I don't see that as a drawback. It's allowing BT/whoever to draw from cheaper labour sources, thereby making themselves more competitive.

It's no wonder companies are wanting to obtain labour from elsewhere given our militant-of-late trade unions.

[Inverse Icarus]

i have a philosophy:

"if you're somewhere where nobody in a 200 foot radius speaks english, you probably don't want to be there"

[Provost Harrison]

Militant-of-late trade unions? One dispute with the fire services and they are militant?

And how much are they going to pay those Indian call centre workers? Probably not a great deal. Exploitation, that's what it is. And I don't speak any other languages to a high level, but I am not proud of that fact. And learning more 'philosophy' or 'economics'. Well for you they seemed to have worked the opposite way to broadening your mind. It is people's right to complain when events occur that directly affects their lives. What would you do if you found out you were going to be kicked out of a job because you weren't cheap enough (for example). Come back when you have lived in the real world for a bit.

[Solly]

"And how much are they going to pay those Indian call centre workers? Probably not a great deal. Exploitation, that's what it is."

When multinationals move into an area to obtain cheaper labour, they inevitably raise the wage rate in the host country - I reckon those jobs BT are providing in India are really coveted by employees; they will be far better jobs than they are used to. Better pay, better conditions, shorter working hours.

"What would you do if you found out you were going to be kicked out of a job because you weren't cheap enough (for example)."

Find another job? Unemployment is low.

And besides, trade unions tend to cause unemployment, so your argument is a bit silly. Trade unions harm most those they are somehow trying to help.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Boddington's
Find another job? Unemployment is low.

In my experience this is crap as well. So many jobs these days have nonexistent prospects. How many jobs are there like that I wonder. We have 'low unemployment' but so many of these jobs offer little stability or income, when the cost of living is spiralling out of control. People have a right to complain when they are constantly priced out of the market yet can't do anything to sort out the situation, when they are willing to do a hard days work yet will not be rewarded appropriately for it...

[Solly]

You really don't know what you are talking about!

"the cost of living is spiralling out of control"

Explain this.

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by Odin


Quit being so Americocentric, thats why other countries don't like us, DUH.

Lessee...Boddington's is British, and Urban Ranger is Chinese...

[Provost Harrison]

Hmmm, property prices continually climbing above the rate of the increases in wage rates, making it nigh on impossible for people to secure a mortgage. Limited security meaning people can't feasibly make long term investments like this. That is what I mean.

Now you just need to live in the real world a bit more to find out what it is really like...