[Rhodes22-list] "need help" thanks

[Saroj]

Your experience reflects what my son has found in his bar/restaurant
business in AZ.... Although in addition to bilimgual managers, he, himself
has become bilingual over the years.

Saroj
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From: "Peter Thorn" <pthorn at nc.rr.com>
To: "stan" <stan at rhodes22.com>; "The Rhodes 22 mail list"
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Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] "need help" thanks


> Stan,
>
> Having just returned from sailing around Long Island, I am just now
getting
> up to speed with e-mail.  I completely agree with those who suggest you
need
> much more than a translation program.
>
> 80% of our workers are Hispanic and most do not speak English well.
> However, they fill our need for reliable, trainable and motivated workers
> and do most of the "real work" in my construction business.
>
> We've had great success using a bilingual foreman.  If you can locate and
> recruit a skilled tradesman with leadership qualities who also speaks
> Spanish, I suspect he will seriously improve your quality of life at work
> and be worth whatever you must pay him.  Our foreman earns triple the rate
> of non-English speaking workers, but he is worth it.  The overall team
> productivity is what matters most to me.
>
> Does the local community college have ESL (English as a Second Language)
> Programs?  One of our workers attends such a program in Durham and has
gone
> from zero knowledge of English to level 5 (converses and understands
easily)
> in less than two years.  We encourage employees to attend ESL courses by
> advancing the pay rate of those who speak it well (I want to keep them
more)
> and by allowing a flexible work schedule for employees to attend ESL
> classes.  Perhaps you could recruit a foreman from the local ESL class?
>
> My experience with Hispanic workers is that they are worth the effort to
> accommodate language problems because they are more reliable, family
> oriented, and just plain happy to have a job.  If you can overcome the
> language barriers I think you will be very happy with Hispanic workers.
>
> Best regards,
>
> PT
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "stan" <stan at rhodes22.com>
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> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 7:42 AM
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] "need help" thanks
>
>
> you can't say I did not know where to go for help with our translation
> problem:
>
> Thanks to Michael, Eric, Doug Mistler, Doug Gardner (for being the most
> positive), Fred, Mark (who knew I would love his revelation that the
current
> administration uses these programs for their foreign policy discussions.
> However, in defense of the Korean translation, for the test input he used
> something I wrote which I had not written in English so no wonder it came
> out in Greek), Gil, Herb, Steve and all the others.
>
> The suggested free programs do not allow printing their results (on my
> machine) - does this mean I have to buy a program or a computer or a
> translator.  I interviewed one translator and she said she could not do
> Greek, and that all the others were Greek to her.
>
> stan/gbi
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