Housekeeping, you want mint for pillow?

OK, I'm not racist by any means, and if a forigner wants to get work doing maid service at a hotel, thats great....but make sure they understand English.

I'm at a hotel in VA now because my fiancees taking a one week class down here and I came with her. The hispanic maid just knocked and asked if I need the room cleaned. I answered the door and said I dont need the room cleaned, just trash taken out. She says, "No room clean?" And again I say just the trash taken out. She says OK and walks away not taking my trash with her.

This is the 2nd time in as many days this has happened. It was kinda funny the first day, now its just annoying. Anyone else have problems like that at a hotel?

 

1. Stop complaining
2. Learn to speak enough Spanish to tell her
3. Just let the woman clean the room.
4. Alternatively, just call down later on in the day, like it was something separate. Like just call the front desk, and say you had to thorw away a lot of stuff that day, so your trash cans are just suddenly full, and you'd like to have them emptied right then, if it's not too muhc of an incovenience. That way, the maid doesn't get in trouble, and you get what you want.

 

Halfway through reading your initial post, I was sure you were going to score with her.

 

I use to find it funny when people with bad english got confused but having lived in Arizona all 14 years of my life, it has gotten extremely annoying.

My advice would be to just let her clean the whole room tomorrow.


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I hate it when people are snobs about thier language.

 

I don't put up with people who don't respect the English language enough to be understandable when they use it. Ebonics, engrish, drawls, jargon...any race, creed or color, if you're butchering it in any way, I'm going to call you on it.

You live in this country, learn to communicate with the people who live here.

 

How is your Native American studies going?

 

We stole it from the native americans, yes, you have struck me down with your logic. The country has adopted english, dude, I don't think it's asking much to request that people who are going to speak it speak it effectively.

 

I'm not a snob about language, but if you're gonna get a job where you communicate with people who speak English, I think you should learn more than just "Housekeeping" and "Room clean?"

 

Not everyone is as talented at learning the mother tongue, your royal englishness.

 

I thought this was going to be a Tommy Boy thread.

Edit: Your hotel room situation is an hourly occurance here in L.A. Darth Dragon. NO ONE speaks English here anymore.

 

what kind of hotel is this?

 

State your position, please.

Here's my position. I don't like having to hear "wuhcum to mcdols can i tak yordah?". It's hard enough to understand people at McDonalds PA systems without having to run a process in my mind to decipher what should have been obvious and straightforward.

 

I did too. I was kinda hoping for it. Although, I don't like the movie that much.

 

Ya know, when I decided to use that as the subject, I kinda figured that would come up. Sowwy.

 

Then dont go there. McDonalds is bottom of the cart crap, your not paying for the exception service. You pay nothing, expect nothing service.

Every imigrant has alot more to worry about than learning english. some of these people work 18 hour days, and you expect them to go to English lessons after work? lol
Its thier life, if it pisses you off, TOUGH LUCK.

I find it ironic that Americans are getting all snoby about people learning English, yet living in a global world, they know little to nothing about other cultures, and continue to live in ignorance.

You sound to mad about this, you unhappy scrappy?

 

We're talking about different things. I'm talking about people born and raised here speaking an in-bred form of communication that shouldn't be used at all unless you have a twin and you like to be covert when saying "let's go and make a sandwich now." I'm all for immigrants coming here and working their way into the community, and if they're in the process of learning the language, or have put it on halt until they've established their work, that's fine.

What I don't dig is, say, the Japanese owner of a restartaunt I went to who has lived here for thirty years and yet has managed to learn no more than the 500 words he knew upon moving here. Or the ebonics-infused-with-a-southern-drawl I'm often subjected to when I go to a place where the only form of communication vital to your service is the aforementioned imcomprehensible babble. Generally speaking, if I am forced to listen to someone as a part of doing my business, I think the best foot should be put forward and someone who is literally, at the least, understandable, be given the task.

I'm not against people with difficulty speaking English working. If speaking fluently isn't their strong point, they could be doing another job at the establishment that doesn't involve speaking.

 

Not everyone has the ability to learn new languages, and you assuming this is just plain stupid.
I speak 3 languages, the ones my parents speak. However, at school i did 5 different languages and sucked at all of them. This included intensive study and private tuitions.

And at the end of the day, its thier choice if they dont want to learn english. Its THIER RIGHT.
"in-bred form of communication"...Again i say youre being a snob.

 

You're not reading my posts.

 

Yes I am

" What I don't dig is, say, the Japanese owner of a restartaunt I went to who has lived here for thirty years and yet has managed to learn no more than the 500 words he knew upon moving here. "

No one is forcing you to go to his restaurant. Maybe he has more important things in his life like raising his family. HIS business, not yours.

 

No, you're not. The point you're ignoring in lieu of waxing righteous indignation is that I'm talking about people who do speak English. People that were born and raised in America, taught in U.S. public schools, and have spoken English and only English all their lives.

You're right that I didn't have to go to the restaraunt, or that I shouldn't go to McDonalds. But that's not the argument.

 

While I don't agree with everything d_b has said, I agree that I refuse to get mad at someone for making a living in spite of not knowing English to well.

And to be fair FruityTooty, does working at McDonald's really require you to speak English? Not so much. They could just yell and grunt, if they wanted to. The only really necessary part is that they understand my order, make it correctly, and charge me the appropriate amount. I could care less if they don't sound good saying the universally pre-rehearsed, corny sounding, hopeless-attempt-at-humanizng-the-interaction line "Welcome to McDonald's may I take your order?"

The room cleaning thing is a bit more of an issue. But even that can be worked around pretty easily, as several suggestions early in the thread have shown. All they need to do is know how to do is clean, not give a disseration on the proper usage of "who vs whom." Come on now.

 

You're just changing from your original point, because you now realise how flawed it is.

First you said "What I don't dig is, say, the Japanese owner of a restartaunt I went to who has lived here for thirty years and yet has managed to learn no more than the 500 words he knew upon moving here."

Now you say "people that were born and raised in America, taught in U.S. public schools, and have spoken English and only English all their lives."

Unhappy scrappy?

 

Darth_Boy, you are being a tad stubborn with him.

 

Im not the one who changed my view half way through the thread