We would not have guessed that!

[TelephoneAngel]

I wish I were making this up - every so often, management sends us all emails with rather obvious information contained in them.

Today's classic

If your customer can speak English, continue to speak English with them.If they cannot speak English, ask them if they know anyone who can speak English who can help them.

Wait............what do I do again if my customer is speaking to me in English?

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I have to think only the truly stupid would consider this something that bore repeating.

[It's me]

How the heck are you suppsed to ask them get an English-speaking helper if they don't speak English???? And if you DO share a common language... do you still have to speak in English if they know it?

[Whiskey]

How the heck are you suppsed to ask them get an English-speaking helper if they don't speak English????

I dont know where TA is from, but my area Spanish is huge. A simple "No Habla Espanol" works fine. They get someone who speaks english or try to get across their message themselves.

[bainsidhe]

Makes me wonder which employee was the cause. You ever see the warning labels on things? For example, an iron will tell you not to iron clothes while wearing them. So what braniac screwed up to such a degree that this email was considered necessary?

[EvilEmpryss]

I dont know where TA is from, but my area Spanish is huge. A simple "No Habla Espanol" works fine. They get someone who speaks english or try to get across their message themselves.

*ahem*
It's "No hablo espanol" (with the little tilde over the n making sound like enyeh). "I don't speak Spanish."

You just told a person speaking Spanish "You don't speak Spanish.".

@Bainsidhe: You're obviously not a skirt-wearing female if you've never ironed clothing while wearing it.

That, or you grew up with a dryer that could do perm press.

[bainsidhe]

Meh, I wear things as they come out of the basket. Just because I've seen an iron doesn't mean I use it.

[Sheldonrs]

Meh, I wear things as they come out of the basket. Just because I've seen an iron doesn't mean I use it.

I know what you mean. I have tits but never breast feed.

[Whiskey]

*ahem*
It's "No hablo espanol" (with the little tilde over the n making sound like enyeh). "I don't speak Spanish."

You just told a person speaking Spanish "You don't speak Spanish.".

I didnt know this, but i think it makes the point that I quite obviously don't speak spanish

[TelephoneAngel]

Makes me wonder which employee was the cause. screwed up to such a degree that this email was considered necessary?

Probably the same employee who caused the email which said "Do not try to unscrew the light fittings"

and the one which said "Do not annoy the cashiers about work while they are on thier break, they do not appreciate this"

[Food Lady]

I like the one on our store-brand diapers that says something akin to "Like most garments, these diapers are flammable. Be sure to keep children away from source of open flame." I do remember that the exact phrase was open flame.

[zombiequeen]

Oh darn, there goes my plan of ironing my clothes while I'm wearing them and lighting a torch behind the baby bottom...I mean, come on, that is one nasty smelling diaper.

[Skeksin]

That email was not nearly comprehensive enough. I mean what do I do if they are thinking at me in German!

[zombiequeen]

That email was not nearly comprehensive enough. I mean what do I do if they are thinking at me in German!

Wait, I'm not allowed to do that? What if I'm thinking nice things, not mean?