Do you hate "Press one for English, two for Spanish" phone calls?

SoftTSoul

I like the other option that I'm waiting for to catch on for those phone calls.

Press 1 - If you understand, and speak English
Press 2 - To disconnect until you do.

slew

I'm from LA, the Municipal phones is more like the movie 48 hours. They have Cantonese, Vietnamese, Mandarin, tagalog and I think they probably added Russian and Armenian. Heck, I work in a place that gets Chemicals from Europe. I get 6 different booklets in various languages on how to use these chemicals. When I need instructions, I have a hard time finding the english version and I end up using the French instead. Also, I called a place once, and English was actually number 2.

Oh Nooooo!

I hate all automated menus- regardless of what the questions are.

no2illegals

Hate it......Press two to deport spanish!

mikea_va

It is not right that we have "Press 1 for English, 2 for Spanish" phone prompts.
Other immigrants came to the US "to get a better life" too but they learned English. Something illegals can't get in their heads!

Adelaide

If you think that's bad then just wait until they take over Arizona and California to the point that they make it officially theirs.
I walked into a 7-11 just the other day to use the ATM machine to withdraw money and it said: Press here for Spanish
and under that:Press here for English
Everywhere I go I'll get stupid looks for speaking to someone in english because everyone it seems speaks spanish more than english.
And it's becomming harder every day to find a job that doesn't require us to speak bilingual preferably spanish.
Where my husband works he can't even train anyone because none of them speaks english and if they do they 'pretend' that they don't just to piss him off.
I didn't used to be racist but because of the hell we have been put through I"m beginning to think that I'm sick to death of illegals and the crap that they continue to put us through.
I'M SICK OF ILLEGALS TAKING OVER MY COUNTRY AND I WANT IT TO STOP!
I want President Bush to stop catering to them and shoving them down our throats and I want all of them to go back to where ever they came from especially those who hate our guts for giving them a better life than what we ourselves have.
Why do we make their problems our priority when we have our own.I don't care how down trodden the damn Mexicans are in Mexico and how bad their Government treats them.That's their issue to address not ours we have our own problems and we don't need them adding to them.
We don't need their drugs,their crime,their rapists,their child molesting perverts,their kidnappers,their mentally and physically ill and above all we don't need them taking our jobs away from us and causing our Schools and Hospitals to close down.
And we don't need their hatred of us especially when we haven't done a damn thing to Mexico to deserve it.
I'm sick of it really and if there was a place I could go to just to get away from them and be around some good old fashion Americans I would go in a Manhattan minute.
I live in an area that used to be considered a very nice area to live but guess what?
It's now turning into a ghetto and guess when THAT started to occur?
WHEN THE ILLEGALS BEGAN MOVING IN!
That's right the majority of the people who were here when it was a good area have long ago moved away when the illegals started taking up residence.
And since the majority of the residents who reside here are now non english speaking citizens and very proud of their Mexican heritage it's become a dump and an unsafe area to be in.
Even the buildings look like crap when before they looked well maintained and decent.
Lord I wish things would go back to the way they used to be.

fbneon03 e-mailed me last night and said some pretty awful things about ME being an illegal how he has the right to be here and not I.He even called me a few not so polite names.I guess that just goes to show that they really do hate us and think that they own America and we should all just leave and let them have it.
Well I have just one thing to say to that.
Over my dead body.

hexa

Yes I hate it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

kissthesky

Yes, the main language should be English. I was born outside of the states, and became a naturalized citizen, I've lived here since I was 9 and I had to learn English. If I go to France, they expect me to speak French, they're not going to speak English just for me.

cj_sez

I will answer this and hope I don't get deleted.
Yes, I hate those menus. I really don't understand why
it is so un-pc to expect people to speak English in a nation whose founding documents are written in English.
Automated menus are bad enough w/o the alternate language.

katie c

yes i hate the principle of the thing.

socalmal

No, have to say that I absolutely LOATHE it. It pisses me off big time when my NAVY credit union asks me this! wtf Oh and my son's Armed Forces Bank does the same thing. What the heck? Its on military bases and it still wants us to choose English.

I say they need to change them to:
press one for English
If you don't speak English hang up and call back when you learn

sugarspicecat

YES....I hate it....If people want to be in this country....they should speak the language

callstrat

Yes - they should default to english and you should have to press a selection for spanish.

every time you call your credit card co, and get that routine - just tell the rep to forward a complaint about it. We should not have to request our nations language. its about all that is holding this nation together these days and we are losing even that.

missmezone87

Actually I find it very annoying. If we keep having everything in English/Spanish then what is the incentive to learn English?
I'm just a tax-paying citizen what can I do, huh?

Lili

Sometimes it bugs me. But I don't mind if I'm calling a Spanish speaking country then I can understand.

AaronAA

Well, even in England the options are not solely in English for many phone services. I press 1 and if I feel like it 2. How's that hurting you? Monolingual cultures are boring.

Daniela O

No. Globalization! It is the same way in other countries.
People shouldn't be bitter about it,I sometimes press 2 or 3 and try to improve my Spanish or French instead. It is great! Besides, the companies do that because they want to sell.

hippyray69

in miami forget press 1/2/3 (3 is creole ughhhhhh) even on the city buses they have an automated stop anouncment and it anonuces each stop in spanish,creole and english so yes lol finally livin in the back woods with the rednecks

Nexus K

Not really. I mean does it also bug you that there are some signs and books written in brail? i mean darn those blind people,they could get around just fine before,they adjusted. yeah those were the good old days. btw just where on the bus did you sit? back or front?

XxRemyxX

No i hate the fact that in Los Cabos hotels you just have 2 channels in spanish, well actually i don't hate that neither just live with that.

Smiley:)

It's called progress, aren't we glad that rotary telephones are gone. And life in the U.S. is constantly excelling 'cause of the ability to adjust to basically anything that challenges us!

flbneon03

the only illegals are you white people that came to this country and KILLED the native REAL americans and STOLE there land, go back to europe

wickedlooks

Not really,because I understand these companies have the same number for countries other than the U S.It's called globalization.

HATEITBIGTIME

@Wickedlooks - No it's called spics not learning American and taking over @question - Yup hate is 100% @flbneon03- yup 100% true , but you left out the spics... they need to leave also! Native languages should be spoken as well as american. Not Spanish or Portuguese they have their own country for that!

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