Domino's Pizza store tells staff 'speak English'

6thElement · 1 Dec 2013 at 03:20

Richdog said:
It is amusing listening to everyone saying what they're saying, knowing that Brits are one of the worst for moving to another country and not learning the host languages.

I treat it as trying to re-educate the colonies.

McBain · 1 Dec 2013 at 10:07

kwerk said:
Stuart Horton sounds like a sanctimonious ****.

This.

Em3bbs · 1 Dec 2013 at 10:10

Richdog said:
It is amusing listening to everyone saying what they're saying, knowing that Brits are one of the worst for moving to another country and not learning the host languages.

Yes comedy gold isn't it.

I left after 5 years in Germany in 2004 (Munich) and I'm still in contact with some old colleagues who *still* can't speak German. As you probably know it's very easy to get by without learning but come on, they have been there nearly 15 years some of them. :eek:

Richdog · 1 Dec 2013 at 10:24

MonkeyMan said:
The last Dominos driver that delivered my pizza was of eastern European decent and sounded very new to the country as he didn't understand English. Now that was slightly annoying as he couldn't find my address and couldn't understand the directions I was giving.
In the end I found him but I thought that was pretty bad of Dominos to send out a driver who didn't have the required skills to communicate with the customer.

Tbh I wish everyone would speak the same language just for convenience, I don't really see why people hold on so tight to old / dying languages (I'm looking at you Wales! ), surely the world would be a better place if we could all understand each other without language barriers.

If a guy can't speak enough English to follow directions, and unable get a pizza that you paid for delivered to your house, then something is very wrong and whoever hired him should get a rollocking.

Ping · 1 Dec 2013 at 10:47

Meh if u think that's bad they have banned the Black Country dialect in one of our local schools. But it's fine for some kids to speak in a foreign language.

krisboats · 1 Dec 2013 at 12:09

Telescopi said:
Grumpy, yes, but the idea of expecting 2 polish guys to banter about how ****ed they got last night, in english, for the benefit of someone they're not even talking to, just so he knows they're not talking about him. It's weird. To me. I know everyone is different but most are wrong.

And yet you can't see how two foreign speaking people blatantly talking about someone in the workplace within earshot would be intimidating for the person being talked about?

I've had this happen in my workplace and even saw it happening on one occasion. My regional advised me to say the same thing to them. Speak english in the workplace from now on or you could find yourself in a disciplinary.

They didn't stay long anyway so i don't have to worry now but i think it's a perfectly reasonable request to make.

Burnsy2023 · 1 Dec 2013 at 12:14

krisboats said:
And yet you can't see how two foreign speaking people blatantly talking about someone in the workplace within earshot would be intimidating for the person being talked about?

Just as intimidating as them whispering so you can't hear?

airwave99 · 1 Dec 2013 at 16:20

Burnsy2023 said:
Just as intimidating as them whispering so you can't hear?

Someone whispering next to me = irritating and slightly unsettling
Some speaking in a foreign language next to me = perfectly fine

Ryan-3 · 1 Dec 2013 at 17:35

Merlin5 said:
Don't care as long as they charge far too much for some pizza that tastes ****.

Fixed it for you

Rexxar · 1 Dec 2013 at 17:49

Always been an issue in retail, my rule as a manager was that the non-English discussion was only for the staff areas, and only when colleagues were not around... It's just plain rude!

krisboats · 1 Dec 2013 at 22:42

Burnsy2023 said:
Just as intimidating as them whispering so you can't hear?

Neither should be tolerated in the workplace.

CharlieRich · 7 Dec 2013 at 16:42

So if I moved to Pakistan and got a job at a pizza resturaunt... Would it be ok for me to speak in English?

Of course not, what is the issue here?!

englishpremier · 7 Dec 2013 at 17:07

Mynight said:
Media hype.

The below average IQs(poor basis sorry) will hear a foreign language and instantly think terrorist plot. Hence intimidated.

However I do agree the problem is theirs.

Why would they think it's a terrorist plot? Not sure you get that many Hungarian or Polish terrorists. What if he was speaking Icelandic? Has there ever been a terrorist from Iceland in modern history?