If indeed the agenda here is "illegal" immigration and 32 million LEGAL people speak Spanish, how does pressing one for English relate to "illegal immigration"? And how does something as mundane as pressing a button effect your life?
2007-09-01 07:15:20 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Thomas M I love you.. honesty is so refreshing.. I also despise ANY automated system.. 4 stars for you!
2007-09-01 07:33:36 · update #1
these people who oppose it think of themselves as patriots yet they are destroying capitalism and free market ideas.
Private businesses can do anything they want within the boundaries of the law, if I want to make people press 4355 for English and press one for Polish, I can. If I want to run a successful business into the ground, I can...Nobody forces you to press it, if you want to take your business somewhere else the customer is more then welcomed to do it. Nobody holds a gun to your head and says press 1. The only people a business are responsible to is the shareholders or the owners. They are reaching out to a broader market to gain more profits...I dont pay attention to the media rhetoric much but it makes me feel that being rich or owning a business makes you somehow a criminal in the eyes of middle class people.
2007-09-01 07:28:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 7⤋
What bothers me is that businesses use an automated answering system, which started several years ago, before illegal immigration. I'm sure they can afford to hire a human to answer the telephone.
I once worked at an answering service, and when they went "computerized", they lost over half of their workers, myself included. They also lost over half their clients who followed us to a new answering service.
Yes, it bothers me to listen to a menu for two or three minutes, only to discover that none of the choices are for what I needed in the first place. I just try 0 or 9, which usually gets a human.
2007-09-02 13:47:14 · answer #2 · answered by Eyes 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Does it trouble you while your end result and veggies are picked by way of non-English speakme individuals akin to discipline employees? Or while your vehicle is washed by way of immigrants that do not talk English and frequently receives a commission lower than minimal? Maybe you must reconsider your questions subsequent time earlier than posting them and quit being ignorant. If it were not for immigrants this nation's economic system could undergo immensely. So subsequent time while you listen a million for English or two for Spanish (which it customarily is Spanish) please quit and suppose for a second that we don't seem to be all lucky sufficient to have what you'll have, so be thankful.
2016-09-05 20:30:52 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That itself doesn't bother me so much. I got in the habit of pressing 0 or 1 as soon as I hear a prerecorder message. Once in a while 0 would get you an operator and 1 would send you to the next menu. But I found most of the time they make you listen to the whole message before they let you. That bothers me. Of course if they didn't ask for pressing 1, I wouldn't have wasted the time waiting to press 1. This site is not just about illegal immigration, but immigration in general. Most of those born here use English as the main language, therefore those who are most comfortable with Spanish are immigrants. As to why people are mad, It's more symbolic. I am having problems at work, because I can't communicate with one of my coworker. He's Armenian, and his performance is less than expected, because we are unable to give him instructions that he can properly follow. If I was to accomadate everyone at work who's primary language is ot English, I would at this point need to learn 3 aditional languages, not just Spanish. THe funny thing about rules about racism, is that we have to accomadate all ethnicities or none at all. Make everyone speak English, or have everyone learn all the language they might encounter.
PS I'm trying to borrow an Armenian colleague to have her train my assistant, and I like him although, I tried to find a middle ground and speak German to him. Unfortunately my German seems to dwindle to just ordering food. My assistant does know 4 different languages.
2007-09-01 07:38:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
It bothers me to deal with any automated menu system, and any extra menu item I have to go through makes things more irritating. The companies could deal with this a lot better, by having a separate phone number for Spanish language calls. It wouldn't cost them anything substantial and it would be good for business.
That said, I lived in The Netherlands for a while, and I was always glad that there, they allowed me to press 2 for English.
2007-09-01 07:24:29 · answer #5 · answered by Thomas M 6 · 9⤊ 1⤋
Here is my idea, just make it a "default language" for every phone facility which is "ENGLISH" and a "default button" that when it comes to be needed another language spoken, we should press "that default button", say the default button is 6, then everytime people who dont speak english need to have another language then they will push 6 and then they will have options for language they speak, such as latin, spanish, etc.
Thus, it dont bother people who speak english and do not to hear "push 1 for english" ....
2007-09-01 08:11:25 · answer #6 · answered by Amril P 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't mind them being given the option in other circumstances. But this is part of a greater problem of them displacing us instead of joining us. It feels like an invasion rather than immigration. If English were the official language and all accepted that we'd feel more secure in accomodating them while they learned English. Where I live English has become press 2 in alot of places.
2007-09-01 10:13:16 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Super Chee- you might have to add the fact that there is no official U.S. language to your question. I've read way too many "in America we speak English" responses.
I speak English and Spanish correctly and have no problem with having to press a button to choose the language I want to continue hearing.
Honestly, it bothers me more to even have to hear a machine. The fact that the recording goes by slowly irritates me more than having to press that button.
2007-09-02 01:55:09 · answer #8 · answered by Meow Mix 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Since all Americans should know English, it does seem odd to have a button to press for Spanish.
And if you're going to have a button for Spanish, then why not for Germans or Italians or Chinese? There must be hundreds of languages spoken in the U.S. Why are they being discriminated against? What makes Spanish special?
This is why we should have a common language so that all Americans know one language and since the Constitution was written in English, that seems the best choice.
2007-09-01 11:29:30 · answer #9 · answered by sister_godzilla 6 · 3⤊ 5⤋
It doesn't bother me but having to listen to the entire system only to find out I am not going to get to speak to a human does.
Why does it bother people? I am going to assume it is because people feel like we are being pushed to accommodate a group of immigrants instead of those immigrants accommodating us but that's just a guess at best.
2007-09-01 08:24:05 · answer #10 · answered by M B 5 · 6⤊ 3⤋
Um It doen't bother me but then I live in Texas for as long as I can remember it has been that way I hate the ones that say press one for this 2 for that etc.
2007-09-01 08:15:22 · answer #11 · answered by gidget lil bit 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋