[Rhodes22-list] "need help" thanks

Wally Buck tnrhodey at hotmail.com
Sun Jul 11 10:04:30 EDT 2004


Peter,

What were you sailing around LI Sound? How was the trip?

Wally


>From: "Peter Thorn" <pthorn at nc.rr.com>
>Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>To: "stan" <stan at rhodes22.com>,"The Rhodes 22 mail list" 
><rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] "need help" thanks
>Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 09:09:37 -0400
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>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>
>To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Cc: <s at rhodes22.com>
>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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