Would you ask to file a complaint right then and there to the operator or ask for a manager and complain this is our country and if anyone should be inconvienced and insulted it should be non-English speaking people?
2006-10-11 08:08:40 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
It's disgusting that we have to do such a thing.
If we are going to have to do it then why isn't there a whole list of languages, the Spanish language isn't the only other language spoken in this Country. How about German, French, Creole, Chinese, etc, etc.
2006-10-11 15:27:12 · answer #1 · answered by usaf.primebeef 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes it ticks me off. I don't like talking to robot voices either. It also ticks me off to read English sub-titles for a Spanish commercial for a Latino web site on an English channel when they already have a Latino channel to do it on. Ticks me off further to be able to have pages of English news translated to any other language but if you go to alot of Latino sites....they won't translate to English. What are you going to do if every other nationality wants to speak "their" native countries language all the time and in every situation? There aren't enough buttons on the phone to keep it going. Now if the government wants to issue all citizens "universal translators" like they had on Star Trek....fine. Otherwise there's no way to find a common ground. Then you better get ready to have mass seperation and quadrants of cities and parts of the country who are going to congregate with their "own kind" and you won't be accepted. And you better be ready to accept that it's not because your white or black or brown or whatever color or relegion...but because we don't know what the heck your saying. Hundreds of years of struggling to "melt" will have been for nothing. I can't change your color or your sex or your relegion but you can learn a language. And like it or not English has been the common language here for a long long time. My immigrant ancestors had to learn it. I don't care what you speak at home.......speak Klingon for all I care. But immigrants come HERE and we speak English.
2006-10-11 08:37:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I hate voicemail.
I will pay more for services where I know I can get a real person.
Who cares if its one more button?
I usually press nothing, ( like I have a rotary) in the hopes of talking to a person, and usually it works
2006-10-11 08:18:33 · answer #3 · answered by papeche 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not really. America doesn't have an official language and it's supposed to be a melting pot. As long as they offer English, I could care less.
Those of you that do file complaints... it's not that I don't support your opinion... but come on... you take time out of your day to complain to a company for offering additional services? Stupid.
2006-10-11 08:12:19 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Puerto Rico is part of the USA. Its predominant language -- consistent with the 1898 Treaty of Paris and the Organic Act enacted by Congress -- is Spanish.
The official language of Québec is French.
If a firm wants to do business in PR and QC it has to provide for their languages.
To you it's politics. To them it's business.
2006-10-11 08:13:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
All the time
2006-10-11 08:23:43 · answer #6 · answered by budntequilla 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
That's about the most ignorant thing I've read in the last 5 minutes.
"Oh, no! I have to press one more button! How will I cope? I think I'll waste a poor customer service rep's time and patience b*tching about it!" Get over yourself.
"What?! I should be considerate of other people? I should be glad the companies I do business with attempt to accomodate their customers? BS! I'm an American!" Yeah, maybe if we're all lucky, you'll all get so pissed off you leave this country.
2006-10-11 08:12:33 · answer #7 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 5⤊ 4⤋
Where else on the key pad, do you want English to be listed, its the first language isnt it ? 1=first- English, 2=2nd -Spanish Dur brain !
2006-10-11 08:18:36 · answer #8 · answered by Latin Techie 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Actually, I've never heard of that complaint or ever been angry at this fact, so I don't really know if I should trust you...
2006-10-11 09:01:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think the recording should state...
"Please press '1' for English"
"Please press '2' to disconnect until you learn to speak English"
Now that I would love to listen to
2006-10-11 08:20:59 · answer #10 · answered by j H 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋