[Was] RANT [Now] English?

[roccit_53 at scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca (C Boyko)]

Well, it always baffles me when employers select people without basic
communications skills for those spots, OTOH, maybe they get a lot of
Spanish only customers, so her (weak) bilingualism is an advantage. We ran
into this in Cape Cod, I figured it was because the local "English as a
first language" kids were just too rich to ever apply for such horrible
jobs. My daughter worked at Mickeydees for a while, she hated every minute.
Cathy

On 12:02 am 09/11/07 Nate Mellom <doubt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Brendan asks:
> Anybody experienced any drive-thrus with outsourced order-takers?
> WTF.
>
> I sez:
> Ha!  I went to McDoogles a while back (for breakfast), and went
> through the 3 window drive-up.  Ordered at the first window, got to
> the second window, realized I had no cash.  I asked the Hispanic
> money-taking girl if they took credit cards.
>
> Dumb look, and "Huh?"
>
> "Do you take credit cards?"
>
> "Huh?"
>
> "Do............you............take..............credit............card
> s?"
>
> Confused look..... "Huh?"
>
> "CREDIT CARDS?"
>
> She ducks away, and returns with an English-speaking manager.
>
> "Do you take credit cards?"
>
> "I'm sorry sir, we don't"
>
> I came REALLY close to telling her to keep the non-English speaking
> employees behind the grill, but I was so pissed I just left.  Made
> for a shitty day.  No breakfast, no coffee, and a completely lousy
> "customer service" experience.
>
> Nate
>
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