E wrote:
You very adequately have shown just one of the problems in their not learning English. There are many more. But as others have voiced, if you go to their country for a job, you learn their language. If they come here, they tried to come to a better place and should try to fit in and learn how things work in America, that made it such a wonderful place to come to for their future. As such, they don't need to bring their failing country with them, but embrace the America they came to, and the first step is to learn to communicate as fluently as possible so they can then integrate into America and become successful.
I have often pointed out the movies Pygmalion and My Fair Lady as examples of what can be done with good, unaccented, fluent speech and the mannerisms and dress of those in higher authority. The world will then open to you based on your own talents and education. But the first thing is SPEECH.
This also goes for our ghetto boys and girls with their pants down past their ass or flamboyant pink hair in skin tight clothes and visible tattoos and piercings all over and speaking the language of the slums and carrying a slovenly attitude of you owe me. I digress.
cheers
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I honestly think that a lot of these people use the "language barrier" as a crutch.
The Bosnian that I mentioned in my post is a perfect example.
9 years ago, I trained this man on how to do this job. It was a brutal game of charades with his broken english, and apparent lack of understanding of how things are here. He is still at it, and I know that he knows what's going on, but he claims not to understand sometimes. I know his son, and son in law, who speak very good english, and tell me that he can too.
His English skills are good enough to negotiate the purchase a brand new veehicle every two years, but not good enough to understand why the box he left at point C should have been left at point A. And why, as a contractor, he is required to correct his mistake because he doesn't understand, and can't communicate.
I was a contractor for this company for years, then lost my route. A month later, they begged me to come work for them.
I'm starting over at the bottom of the pile now, but climbing that mountain fast.
I'm one step away from being able to hold these people to the contracts that they have signed. Once there I will write them up for breaches every chance I get until their contracts are terminated, or they do their job. It's a process for me right now.
But the frustration level is high since I have a spoiled rotten terminal manager with no spine who doesn't want to do any work. E mails wear him out! So he says......sorry.....it's just work stuff that pisses me off.
I did text the "manager" earlier, and tell him that I wanted two hours of overtime added to my timecard because of dealing with the emails, and phone calls from home off the clock. He said he would give me four.
This is bullshit. It's a personal problem, and I shouldn't be venting it here.
My apologies.