Anyone speak Hindi? Anyone?!

Aug 02, 2006 13:30

The communication barrier is so frustrating ( Read more... )

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Because I feel like it... fakeplasticjenn August 2 2006, 20:27:57 UTC
I'm going to include some choice (yes, I used the word "choice") phrases that seem to get repeated over and over in the emails from India:

"Kindly reset the password and intimate me of the same."

"Kindly revert back."

"Kindly advise on the same." (see a pattern??)

"Could you please me...."

"I have verified myself."

Oh. Here's a great complete email:
"Hi, Send me the link. Thanks"
It was probably that direct due to unfamiliarity with the language, but there was no "kindly" or anything...

Really, though, the joke's on us Americans, because there are ten times fewer spelling and grammatical mistakes in the Indian emails. *sigh* Come on, people, learn the difference between its and it's. Please???

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Earlier today, the response fakeplasticjenn August 4 2006, 02:30:29 UTC
After writing to the manager that neither she, nor the two other employees who report to her, had to take it, and repeating myself, she sends a mail today, asking if these two employees were required to take it.

*sigh*

Many worse emails from stupid American employees today though. People who didn't understand that you had to take the whole training before you were shown as "completed", or who didn't realize, when given the backdoor password, that they weren't supposed to include the quotation marks in the password.

Stupid, stupid, stupid....

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adam_branson August 4 2006, 14:01:18 UTC
My vote is still for sending them a link to goatse.cx and telling them it's a mirror for the training website.

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fakeplasticjenn August 4 2006, 18:43:03 UTC
Heh, but that would be mean, and really they don't deserve that.

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