[Rhodes22-list] "need help" thanks

[Peter Thorn]

Wally,

Cousin Tom and I sailed around Long Island, except we deleted the Montauk
blue-water part with the Shinnectock shortcut, in his Mac 26x.  It took 7
days and was a great trip.

I just returned this evening from Oriental, NC and the Tanzer 16 Nationals.
I'm kinda tired and it's late, but promise to post more of the NY trip
later.

PT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wally Buck" <tnrhodey at hotmail.com>
To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] "need help" thanks


> 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
> >
> >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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >----- 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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