On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:08:15 -0800, Saman W Jayasekara
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since Apu have 8 kids
Apu is also revealed to be an illegal alien, btw, in the episode that was
anti-prop-187 propaganda, as well as Shopkeeper Willie.
I know everyone here knows this, but I can't just leave this thread
percolating without responding...
I currently work in a culturally mixed environment, with a number of people
from outside the US. Sometimes I have a bit of difficulty with their accents
or wordings, as they do with the native
Everybody's different from somebody. That doesn't make
them any less valuable, or worthy of respect.
I just want to clarify that, I don't think badly of these recruiters
as people. It's frustrating for me because of the context in which the
language barrier is presented. A language barrier is
who want to improve PR skills.
Sam
-Original Message-
From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 10:52 PM
To: CF-Jobs-Talk
Subject: RE: recruiters with english as a second language
Everybody's different from somebody. That doesn't make
them any less
Lest my earlier response be judged in any way racial, I need to follow
up. My tendancy towards ignoring recruiters, whether native English
speakers or not, comes from my experiences with recruiters in general.
As a whole, I find recruiters to be somewhere between the tax man and
used car
On 4/1/06, Saman W Jayasekara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Guys,
[snip]
Since Apu have 8 kids who most probably will be native speakers (because
they have to survive in the school with Nelson) what native English you
would like them to speak? Snoop Dog's Native English or Jeff Foxworthy's
Same here, was amazed the first few times it happened that recruiting had
been outsourced like that. I tried to nicely tell the first couple I was
not interested but after rewording that statement a few times without them
understanding what I was saying I finally just gave up. Probably does not
While I would agree about the communication barrier -
Just wanted to point out FYI - India is not in the middle east...
On 3/31/06, S. Isaac Dealey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Despite various websites' preference settings (Career
Builder and DICE
come to mind), I STILL get emails from
By the way, I saw the () in your Middle East reference,
but others weren't including it, so I think that was it
was pointed out that India isn't in the Middle East.
Yep, that's why I clarified. :)
Thanks Levi,
s. isaac dealey 434.293.6201
new epoch : isn't it time for a change?
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I'm glad I'm not the only one. Not trying to be mean or anything but when he
sounds like Apu from the Simpsons I really don't listen to what they are saying.
So...
I hope I'm not offending anyone, but at what point do you simply not
respond to a recruiter if there's an obvious language barrier?
Glad to hear it happens to others. Not trying to be mean or anything but when
they sound like Apu from the Simpsons I really don't listen to what they have
to say and just say no thanks.
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Message:
31, 2006 9:44 PM
To: CF-Jobs-Talk
Subject: Re: recruiters with english as a second language
I'm glad I'm not the only one. Not trying to be mean or anything but when he
sounds like Apu from the Simpsons I really don't listen to what they are
saying.
So...
I hope I'm not offending anyone
Thanks Pete, it's good to know I'm not alone. :)
I've gotten a number of calls from recruiters that were
pretty
obviously outsourced Indian callcenter employees who were
dialling for
dollars. As a rule, I hang up on them as quickly as
possible. I have
also gotten emails that used less
Despite various websites' preference settings (Career
Builder and DICE
come to mind), I STILL get emails from recruiters, usually
with
middle-eastern names, shopping for candidates for jobs I'm
simply not
qualified for. I hate that.
I used to get that pretty frequently with recruiters
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