Re: An absurd situation

["mikey" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

and I with you, Petem. I just read your previous post re the asshole anglais
with the "attitude". LANGUAGE PREFERENCE is the way. His account would have
had the english box checked, d'uh.

I remember reading about how the Belgians handled two languages in one
country and thinking how rediculous and wasteful it seemed. Gov't positions
had an english guy and a french guy, both essentially doing the same job but
one with english, one with french. How brilliant that seems now.

I run in to the same shit too, Petem, when I try to speak french sometimes
to french clients. That's a good retort by the way, another tech in a few
days hahaha, good one

"petem" <petem001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:TPbMe.24686$tb4.775202@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I totally agree with you..
>
>
> "mikey" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news:
> u4ydnZ2dnZ2HWr-CnZ2dnUONnN6dnZ2dRVn-052dnZ0@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > This just goes to show you that it is not always about money, Bob.
> >
> > I've seen this favouritism from both sides all my life. French prefer
> > French, English prefer English, it will never change. That idiot Trudeau
> > did
> > us NO favours at all with his ill-conceived bilingualism policies, it
DID
> > NOT work.
> >
> > "R.H.Campbell" <rh.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:WO-dnQ3sSqVtaJ3eRVn-rw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> I really thought I'd heard it all until this afternoon.
> >>
> >> Got a call from a woman moving into a home with an alarm I had
installed
> >> some years ago, and that had been non monitored for a couple of years.
We
> >> made an appointment for tomorrow morning to hook it up to the CS, and
> >> when
> > I
> >> arrived home, my wife said the woman had called to cancel the
> >> appointment.
> >> So curious as to why, I called the lady and found that she had made an
> >> appointment with a large company who promised to send out a French
> > speaking
> >> salesman. Now since I knew this company and their rates, I pointed out
to
> >> her that she was going to have to pay $10 a month more for service, get
> >> limited warranty and service compared to my offering, and burden
herself
> >> needlessly with a three year contract.
> >>
> >> Her response to me for why she was going with them was..." you're not a
> >> Francophone from Quebec"....!!! Talk about "reverse bias". I get by in
> >> French, and my son is fluently bilingual, but her reasoning (if you
want
> > to
> >> call it that) was that I was not Canadian French from Quebec, so she
> >> chose
> >> not to deal with me....
> >>
> >> For the first time in my life I simply had no answer !! But I couldn't
> > help
> >> thinking..."Lady, if you're that stupid that you want to go for that
kind
> > of
> >> deal simply because I don't come from Quebec, then go for it...."
> >>
> >> Gawd, proves the old adage...a fool and his money are soon parted.
> >>
> >> RHC
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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