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I wanted to speak with someone who spoke correctly, what was I supposed to do, ask to speak with someone who knows to speak proper English? That would have been offensive!
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You know, your concerns might have been distasteful, yet somewhat understandable if you demonstrated a strong command of proper English in your posts. But incredibly, most people here can translate your error-filled posts into understandable English.
Doesn’t that strike you as a little… hypocritical? You’re operating under the belief that your shopping experience was compromised because the employee used a nonstandard, yet perfectly understandable construction in a sentence, and you are posting to a message board - with the benefit of spellcheck, and the ability to read and proofread your writing before you send it into cyberspace - and it’s full of mistakes! Omitted words, confusion about capitalization, run-on sentences…
I mean, re-read this:
[QUOTE=copperwindow]
The way I it, either my concern could have been better handled by someone of my own race, or they couldn’t. If they could have been better handled by a caucasian, I feel I had the right, as a customer, to get the most helpful service. If they could not be better handed by a caucasian, if a black person is going to give me equal service as a white person, how is that racist? If the race of the employee is meaningless, it would have been like me asking to speak to another black employee. If that would have been racist, who would it have been racist to? Furthermore, isn’t Circuit City being racist by not hiring enough white people to work in customer service? Here in Vermont, the reason we don’t hire black people is because there aren’t any to hire. In a diverse place like NYC, the melting pot of the world, I fail to see how they can have that problem.
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I had to read this three or four times to make sense (I think) of what you were trying to say.
What’s your excuse for not having perfect grammar and logic in your posts? If you’re going to demand it of retail staff, I’m going to demand it of you on this messageboard. Or (not to beat the dead horse into the ground) can you have another poster type up your thoughts for you so they’re clearer and mistake-free?
And it’s bizarre that you see the barrier in communication as a race-based one. If you had stated that you couldn’t understand the employee’s diction, that would be one thing. What assurance do you have that a cau… oops, a Caucasian employee would communicate in a more exact manner?
(see, Caucasian is a term derived from a region in Asia, and should always be capitalized…)
