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To be offended by this review?

107 replies

dolgellau · 21/05/2018 21:00

AIBU to be offended on behalf of my staff.

I run a business in Welsh speaking Wales. It serves the public who are mainly tourists. Every single worker in the business speaks Welsh and all daily happenings and running of the business is through Welsh.

We have been left a bad review with low score as “staff speaking welsh between themselves”.

The only situation I can see this arising is if a customer orders in English (or French to some staff) staff will chat with the customers needs in English. Then to relay the knowledge to someone to work on the order will say it in Welsh to the other worker; the language that comes most naturally to them. This isn’t the case of excluding the customer but to just get the process done.

Even if the staff were gossiping between another;
How would said reviewer know that they weren’t discussing work related issues? Angry

OP posts:
TamzinGrey · 22/05/2018 20:35

people are always very keen to speak English to show how well educated they are.

Well LynetteScavo I regularly eat at a local Turkish restaurant. The staff all speak excellent English. However, after they've taken my order, they turn to each other and switch to speaking in Turkish. Same thing happens at our local Indian restaurant. It's never occurred to me to be offended, or to feel daunted - and all of this is happening in ENGLAND - not even in Turkey or India. Perhaps they're not so keen to show how well educated they are.

CheshireSplat · 22/05/2018 20:40

Came into say something similar to Dobby . Write a hilarious response, get the press to pick it up and it's free advertising!

BalaBrith · 22/05/2018 21:28

I'm actually confused here... every so often the OP's name changes in the tagging thing. Its been Dolgellau, then Tamzin now Dobby...?? Is this a bug on my end or is the OP having us onConfused
(Sorry if its a bug, I'm just a bit Confused here)

Dobbythesockelf · 22/05/2018 21:29

I'm not the OP if that helps

BalaBrith · 22/05/2018 21:32

I think it's a bug, sorry Dobby. I've just tried to do it again and it showed me as the OP, must be a site bugGrinGrin

(Made a bit of a fool of myself hereBlushGrin)

TamzinGrey · 22/05/2018 21:57

I'm not the OP either Bala. (Lovely place Bala )

BalaBrith · 22/05/2018 22:17

@TamzinGrey ooops, sorry I'm not sure why it's doing this lol. It keeps changing and putting 'OP' next to random usernames (on mobileConfusedBlush)

It's a lovely part of the world for sureSmile

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