Timeline for My company/team relies on a language I clearly specified I can't speak
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| May 25, 2023 at 15:54 | comment | added | JosephDoggie | This happened years ago ... but yes, that's what happened.... | |
| May 25, 2023 at 15:17 | comment | added | Benjamin | @JosephDoggie yeah, leave then and head for a honestmistake company. | |
| May 25, 2023 at 15:04 | comment | added | JosephDoggie | I was lied to about something completely different, but it was important, and it seriously changed the course of my career, and therefore, to a certain extent, my life. I think it was quite intentional and not an honest mistake. | |
| May 25, 2023 at 13:33 | comment | added | Benjamin | @JosephDoggie I think that would merit it's own question. My personal opinion: Hiring managers are people too, ane make human errors. Its up to you if a promise was a honest human error, or systematic lying to fool you. Also, the interview process is there to gauge the honesty and validity of these claims. Try to get the best picture you can, and then decide on that. | |
| May 25, 2023 at 13:06 | comment | added | JosephDoggie | Another comment: In genral, at hiring time, promises are made to the candidate that usually aren't kept. Apparently, as an employee you are just expected to go along with this. | |
| May 25, 2023 at 6:47 | comment | added | Benjamin | @JosephDoggie I know that, you know that, majority of Germans like to think of their language as hard. -> Deutsche Sprache, schwere Sprache. (Germany saying) | |
| May 24, 2023 at 22:05 | comment | added | JosephDoggie | I had 3 years of German in Jr. High, another 3 in Sr. High, two college courses (all US), I did reasonably well or better in all of those except for one year. None-the-less, I can't really function in German without translations! I suspect if I had to live in Germany for a year, by the end I'd pick it up, but it can be difficult. None-the-less, German is in the 'family of languages' with English, so there are harder languages to pick up. | |
| Mar 19, 2022 at 16:25 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | "Unfounded optimism." - I agree with this assessment, but I'd go even farther than your interpretation of "We know it doesn't work as is, but we will change things so it does work." I think it might even be more like "We know it doesn't work as is, but for the six to twelve months until the new employee has learnt German - because they will, of course, once they see that lots of internal communication on and off duty takes place in German - we will temporarily change things so the most important info gets through to them in English". | |
| Jan 21, 2022 at 17:36 | comment | added | Donald | Ironically, There is video conferencing software that has features to provide language translations. | |
| Jan 21, 2022 at 13:47 | history | answered | Benjamin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |