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Posting this on behalf of my dad. Since Russia was brought up in another thread (http://www.customerssuck.com/board/s...502#post951502), I realized I had to share.
My dad works for a subcontractor for NASA. He's a systems admin, and he provides support to their Russian offices. As such, he must travel to Moscow a few times a year. He gets to hang out with cosmonauts and stuff. It seems like lots of fun.
Of course, Dad doesn't know any Russian. He was so nervous about going. He doesn't even know the alphabet, let alone the language (as I mentioned in the other thread, I had lots of fun at his expense when I told him not to mix up "Voda" with "Vodka"). Fortunately, support for him is just a phone call away, as he has lots of coworkers who actually know at least some Russian.
All the subway stations in Moscow look the same (and if you were to step outside, most of the buildings do as well). If he gets lost and doesn't know which station he is at, he will find a sign and call his coworker, and try to describe it to his coworker by saying "the pi-shaped one" or "the x with the line in the middle" or "the vertical line with the circle attached"...it gets time-consuming.
After describing one sign to his coworker for close to 20 minutes, his coworker informed him "That sign says 'Tickets this way.' You need to go find another sign."
Eventually they were able to figure it out. He made it home, after all.
(I don't know why he doesn't just send a pic of the sign to his CW. Maybe the data rates over there are too high. Or maybe he's not as ingenious as me.
I keep forgetting to suggest it to him.)
My dad works for a subcontractor for NASA. He's a systems admin, and he provides support to their Russian offices. As such, he must travel to Moscow a few times a year. He gets to hang out with cosmonauts and stuff. It seems like lots of fun.
Of course, Dad doesn't know any Russian. He was so nervous about going. He doesn't even know the alphabet, let alone the language (as I mentioned in the other thread, I had lots of fun at his expense when I told him not to mix up "Voda" with "Vodka"). Fortunately, support for him is just a phone call away, as he has lots of coworkers who actually know at least some Russian.
All the subway stations in Moscow look the same (and if you were to step outside, most of the buildings do as well). If he gets lost and doesn't know which station he is at, he will find a sign and call his coworker, and try to describe it to his coworker by saying "the pi-shaped one" or "the x with the line in the middle" or "the vertical line with the circle attached"...it gets time-consuming.
After describing one sign to his coworker for close to 20 minutes, his coworker informed him "That sign says 'Tickets this way.' You need to go find another sign."
Eventually they were able to figure it out. He made it home, after all.
(I don't know why he doesn't just send a pic of the sign to his CW. Maybe the data rates over there are too high. Or maybe he's not as ingenious as me.
I keep forgetting to suggest it to him.)
the signs with the street names were posted on the walls of the buildings at the corners, not on the poles, all of which had signs with the above text on them.
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