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to expect this couple to have spoken English when I was with them

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OrlandoWoolf · 16/11/2013 19:46

I was doing some work in a client's house today. Both clients were from abroad but they could both speak good English. When I was doing the work, I could hear them speaking in their native language.

I asked later if they wanted more work doing at another time. They then spoke in their language for a bit (not the first time they'd done that when I was there and with them) before answering me in English.

I do feel a bit strange when such things happen. It's happened at some other places I have worked at where conversations have happened around me in a native language.

AIBU to expect people who can speak English to speak English when I was with them?

OP posts:
sOODdragon · 22/11/2013 07:12

I asked later if they wanted more work doing at another time. They then spoke in their language for a bit (not the first time they'd done that when I was there and with them) before answering me in English.

This sounds like they were discussing the OP/her work. in front of her, in a language she doesn't understand. This is rude.

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