Something quite disturbing

[makapaaa]

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Subscribe </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=msgtable cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="96%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=msg vAlign=top><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgbfr1 width="1%"> </TD><TD><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgF width="1%" noWrap align=right>From: </TD><TD class=msgFname width="68%" noWrap>very_tired <NOBR></NOBR> </TD><TD class=msgDate width="30%" noWrap align=right>12:07 am </TD></TR><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgT height=20 width="1%" noWrap align=right>To: </TD><TD class=msgTname width="68%" noWrap>ALL <NOBR></NOBR></TD><TD class=msgNum noWrap align=right> (1 of 8) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgleft rowSpan=4 width="1%"> </TD><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>17208.1 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgtxt>Today I went to a macDonald. I was waiting for my foods and saw a man moving around the Q to choose a counter. When it was his turn, the waiter asked him for his orders and he said:
"Ni hui zhiang hua yi ma?" (Can you speak mandrain).
It was a PRC.
The waiter, a singaporean, answered "Yes."
And this guy ordered a "Ê¥´ú" (sundae). The waiter paused for a while, and realised that it was the "ice-cream".
You know what I mean?
Singaporeans now have to adapt and adjust to foreigners. When they are in a foreign country, aren't they supposed to learn the languages there?
It's like when you go to Germany, and ask the waiter "Li ai hiao gong hokkien boh?" (Can you speak hokkien?) And the German are supposed to adapt to your language and behaviour?
What if the waiters and waitresses were all Malays? I had been approached a few times to be a interpretor already.
And there was a row of 5 tables along the wall, 2 tables were taken by PRC students surfing net (I know because the manager asked them to come back later), one by Pinoy maids and their Indian boyfriend, and one by an Indian family, I was the only singaporean.
Singapore is walking towards its doom.
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[PoThePanda]

Correction : Singaporeans are voting the PAP in,and welcoming their doom.

 

[jim007jimmyboy]

PAP ask u to welcome these mather fuckers into your home so that they we can assimilate their fucking rich culture of spitting and urinating in mrt

 

[po2wq]

... When it was his turn, the waiter asked him for his orders and he said:
"Ni hui zhiang hua yi ma?" (Can you speak mandrain).
It was a PRC.
The waiter, a singaporean, answered "Yes." ...

dat prc oredi asked dat waiter wat ... who asked dat waiter 2 say yes? ... dat waiter cud play punk n said no ...

... n den kena sacked by his manager! ...

What if the waiters and waitresses were all Malays? I had been approached a few times to be a interpretor already.
And there was a row of 5 tables along the wall, 2 tables were taken by PRC students surfing net (I know because the manager asked them to come back later), one by Pinoy maids and their Indian boyfriend, and one by an Indian family, I was the only singaporean. ...

how u noe dey r not sporeans? ...

 

[kchunjeng]

Wake up ! Wake Up , My dearest Singpaporean,
Don't NATO only ( No Action, Talk Only).

ACTION ! ACTION ! ACTION !

1) Takan the FT, TAKAN the FT !

 

[Watchman]

Singaporean youth falling dead like flies !

 

[takcheksian]

FAP likes Foreigners and Bangla so much.

One day our MRT and SBS will be so crowded with Bangla, they even clmib on the roof like back home in good old AhNeh-desh or AhNeh-stan.

PAP ask u to welcome these mather fuckers into your home so that they we can assimilate their fucking rich culture of spitting and urinating in mrt

 

[Agoraphobic]

Mac's attendant's reply should be (in putonghua) "Yes we do. Please get back in line and we'll be pleased to get you the sundae when your turn to order comes."

The attendant should control the queues; it is part of their jobs."

HELLO. MacDonald's. YOU THERE?

Cheers!

 

[jimmyfallon]

Mandrin is an official language

 

[scoobyhoo]

why hate chinese who speaks mandarin? should hate those who worship ang mo and not even able to speak own language ?

 

[Char_Azn]

I've posted some stuff about not having the need for all FTs to understand English in another thread. However for this case, someone working in a place like Mcdonalds clearly needs to be able to speak English. Why is McDs hiring someone who doesn't speak English

 

[TeeKee]

I've posted some stuff about not having the need for all FTs to understand English in another thread. However for this case, someone working in a place like Mcdonalds clearly needs to be able to speak English. Why is McDs hiring someone who doesn't speak English

i tot the customer is PRC and the person serving him is a Singaporean?

since when did SGP became an English state? I tot we have 4 official languages?

what happen is a singaporean auntie who doesn't speak a word of english visited a bank officer who happens to be a Malay and who cannot speak a word of mandarin.

then how? close the bank account and move to another bank who hires PRCs who can speak mandarin?

very confusing leh...

 

[DIVISION1]

Give our foreign talents time. They will pick up good English. We must also at the same time pick up their languages too.

 

[halsey02]

Mandrin is an official language

Can I go to MacD..and say " wo yeow zhi xia mien"? 'ni men yo mai, ma'?

 

[Char_Azn]

i tot the customer is PRC and the person serving him is a Singaporean?

since when did SGP became an English state? I tot we have 4 official languages?

what happen is a singaporean auntie who doesn't speak a word of english visited a bank officer who happens to be a Malay and who cannot speak a word of mandarin.

then how? close the bank account and move to another bank who hires PRCs who can speak mandarin?

very confusing leh...

If U are trying to quote what I have to say in the other thread. I did say specifically that if the job does not require one to be able to interact with pple using the English language then yeah we do not need to know English. Some e.g. would be Dishwashers
Waiters in some Chinese restaurant whom are not expected to take orders
Restaurant Cooks/Chefs(since most of them do not need to interact with customers he just needs to be able to interact with the pple working around him or giving him customer orders)
Construction Workers
Cleaners
Like I said in the other thread it depends on the scope of the job. Does the job requires someone who needs to speak English, does the job requires that person to interact with someone who doesnt speak Chinese/Malay/Tamil

If some one working in McDonald's can only speak in Chinese/Malay/Tamil, then they should be working in the kitchen NOT at the counter serving customers.

1 job I think is inappropriate and that we currently have PRC pple doing it, Bus Drivers.