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It might work for people who mean well but generally don't realize that their behavior is not acceptable. I knew an Eastern European gentleman who constantly co
by PhasmaFelis 8y ago
It might work for people who mean well but generally don't realize that their behavior is not acceptable. I knew an Eastern European gentleman who constantly complimented women on their appearances, whether or not they were conventionally attractive ("No, no, you are not fat! You are strong!"), which makes me think he meant well, but it still came off as creepy and weird.
Of course that guy kept losing jobs for it. :-/ I don't know if he ever really learned. So I dunno.
- smilesnd 8y agoI had a similar situation on a bigger scale. I was once put on a project at a bank where they had to hire more then 100 people in 2 months span. The workforce ended up being made of 80% Chinese people. The best way to describe there English would to say it was rough if they even actually spoke English. They slowly started to pick up certain keywords like strong or efficient or repeat the same sentence to answer questions that sound similar which would sometime come out offensive. My recruiting agency solution to this problem was to have them sign a contract every 2 weeks or so stating which words or sentences they couldn't use any more, or have certain people train them new sentences or words to use so they wouldn't repeatedly show up in reports. It is one of the few training exercise I skip on the regular.