telephone support

[Wizzard]

Mujibar was trying to get a job in India .

The Personnel Manager said , 'Mujibar,

you have passed all the tests , except one.
Unless you pass it , you cannot qualify for this job.'

Mujibar said , 'I am ready.'

The manager said,
'Make a sentence using the words
Yellow, Pink, and Green .'

Mujibar thought for a few minutes and said,
'Mister manager , I am ready'

The manager said , 'Go ahead.'

Mujibar said,
'The telephone goes green , green ,
and I pink it up , and say,
Yellow, this is Mujibar.'

Mujibar now works at a call center.

No doubt you have spoken to him.
I know I have.

[cookiedough]

not really funny to be told the truth.  near 1/2 my employer workforce is horribly BAD speaking English a lot come from Africa or China or Arabic/Pakistan decent unable to speak CLEAR words most speak way, way too fast and slur their speech horribly to the point I have to tell them I cannot understand a word they said to me to repeat and repeat like 10xs in a row.


It really annoys me that they waste my time unable to speak English hardly at all.   

[Skinhead]

not really funny to be told the truth.  near 1/2 my employer workforce is horribly BAD speaking English a lot come from Africa or China or Arabic/Pakistan decent unable to speak CLEAR words most speak way, way too fast and slur their speech horribly to the point I have to tell them I cannot understand a word they said to me to repeat and repeat like 10xs in a row.


It really annoys me that they waste my time unable to speak English hardly at all.   

It's a joke.  We Americans (IMHO) are arrogant as hell in that most of us tend to only speak one language, many foreigners are multi-lingual.  May not have the accent or dialect down completely, but I give them credit for at least trying.

[Wizzard]

Yeah,, I meant it as a joke, thought it was funny. I have had certain things about the way I speak with a southern Iowa accent poked fun at and I laugh right along with them.

[Sorcerer]

I ant got no accent. Ya, sure, don’t ya know. Northern Minnesotan is hard to type .

[Wizzard]

And you are not Sven or Ole? 

[Robert]

Love it, thanks for the laugh. 

[0leman]

Enjoyed the original post.

I did spend over a decade as a IT person in a government office.   I did have the privilege of talking to answering services for various computer related equipment.  On many occasions, I had to have the person on the other sided of the line to repeat what they said.   We did complain to our bosses that there was a communication problem.   Finally we got a to talk to folks who were in USA.  thought it was funny when I talked to the first person, she was from the deep South with quiet a accent.  Thankfully I spoke southern in my youth. 

[old2soon]

When I moved to East Texas-Garrison-in 1978 got hired and met some of the guys I'd be working with one said right out-you talk funny!  I said-NO-I do Not talk funny-you listen funny!  He taught me Texan I taught him Yankee-well actually Midwestern.  When I run into a situation where I can Not understand the people on the phone who are trying to help me I politely ask to speak with someone whose first language is English. RIDE SAFE.

[G-Man]

I can relate to Cookiedough's frustration.  I regularly have meetings, teleconferences (so you can't see facial expressions or lips moving), with people from Germany, India, China, sometimes all at once.  I have to focus and give my undivided attention to follow conversation and to understand what they are saying.  I find myself leaning froward in my chair as if it will help me hear things more clearly. 

Instead of getting frustrated, I think of My Cousin Vinny.  "What's A Yute?"

[Skinhead]

When I moved from Pittsburgh to Pontiac MI in 1983, everyone axed me if I was from down south, because of my Pittsburgh accent.  I said " no I'm not from dahn sauth, I'm from Pittsburgh, yinz are the ones that talk funny!"  (bunch of jaggoffs)

[Jess from VA]

I took three years of Spanish in Jr Hi.  Apparently that is just enough to make all Spanish speaking people fall over laughing their ass off when you try using it. 

I later tried real hard to learn enough Turkish to get around in public with.  Pleasantries, salutations, shopping, restaurants, etc.

Still, it often resulted in confusion, misunderstanding, and laughter.

At an office party I had a bad cold and explained (in both Turk and English) I was sick.  One of the Turk wives asked why I was talking about my dick.  Sick in Turk is dick.  Life of the party I tell you.