Like everyone, I spend a lot of time after certain situations fuming over what I should have said. Today I don't have to. Today's perfect moment, truly in the snarky spirit of XKCD and Failblog, was this:
I was sitting in the office break room on my afternoon break, reading a book. A couple of guys were joking about interviewees for a supervisor position, and eventually came around to the applicants who spoke English as a second language. (note: luckily none of these guys were actually involved in the hiring decision of said supervisor).
Guy said:
"What happens when one of them goes out to meet with industries and they can't even understand what he says? I don't think they have any business being a supervisor if they can't even talk English well enough to be understood."
Without even looking up, I said, "Speak."
He thought for a second, then turned bright red and glared at me. I raised an eyebrow and said, "Just making a point."
The other person at the table started to snicker at him. He got up and left.
Oh, that sweet, sweet moment of glory...
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
1 comment:
All comments may be moderated. If you think you're entitled to free speech, you are, on your own blog. This is my blog. I have opinions that are often subjective, and as I'm not running a documentary or research organization, there's nothing wrong with a little subjectivity. I also have the right to not approve or delete comments I find mean-spirited, idiotic or encouraging what I consider objectional, dangerous, or plain stupid practices (such as weight loss or cosmetic surgery, changing your body to please others (i.e. "dieting"), spreading hate, etc.). If you voice disagreement with anything I say, and you do it in an intelligent matter with clear research citations to your claims and conclusions (popular media articles don't count) I will probably allow the comment. I will also probably debate you and try to refute your claims. If at any time that devolves into stupidity or attack, I will start deleting your comments. If you disagree with what I say by spouting pseudoscientific popular opinion, displaying prejudice or hate, or otherwise acting like an ass-hat, I will delete your comment. That's pretty much the policy, subject to change without notice :-)
Is it too much to ask that all employees know how to talk American? Good for you. What you said was simple, elegant and to the point.
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