Rest of story Ask me to translate live? Fine, I will. This was more than 15 years ago, but it still makes me smile. I worked for a non-profit which was owned by a mother company. The manager of the non-profit managed to run the company into the ground financially, and the mother company considered two options - firing us all and rehiring us with no accumulated benefits and no tenure, or firing us and selling the company. This was in Israel, official language hebrew, but the mother company were all Americans. They decided to have a meeting with all the workers to discuss the terms of our continuing to work - but insisted the discussion be held in english. The employees all spoke hebrew, of course, and many weren't fluent in spoken english, but the mother-company representatives doubled down on the language - despite the fact that many of them knew hebrew. It was clearly a tactic to confuse the workers. In the end, the compromise was that the meeting would be held in english, with on the spot translation supplied by our company. As the only total bilingual, I was asked to translate. I knew they were trying to sell us a rotten deal. I also knew some of their people knew hebrew, so I could not indicate my opinion about what was said, or even use a sarcastic tone when I knew what was said was false or manipulative. So - I translated. Faithfully. But whenever I had to translate something the mother-company representatives said which I knew was manipulative, I made a slightly longer pause before the main part of the sentence. All my co-workers caught on very quickly. The mother-company's offers were rejected, we hired a good lawyer and got nearly twice the severance pay they initially offered us. Too bad they didn't have a fine ear for speech rhythm.
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I friggin hate these short clips with no end or link to end. Unsub.
Rest of story
Ask me to translate live? Fine, I will.
This was more than 15 years ago, but it still makes me smile.
I worked for a non-profit which was owned by a mother company. The manager of the non-profit managed to run the company into the ground financially, and the mother company considered two options - firing us all and rehiring us with no accumulated benefits and no tenure, or firing us and selling the company. This was in Israel, official language hebrew, but the mother company were all Americans. They decided to have a meeting with all the workers to discuss the terms of our continuing to work - but insisted the discussion be held in english. The employees all spoke hebrew, of course, and many weren't fluent in spoken english, but the mother-company representatives doubled down on the language - despite the fact that many of them knew hebrew. It was clearly a tactic to confuse the workers.
In the end, the compromise was that the meeting would be held in english, with on the spot translation supplied by our company. As the only total bilingual, I was asked to translate. I knew they were trying to sell us a rotten deal. I also knew some of their people knew hebrew, so I could not indicate my opinion about what was said, or even use a sarcastic tone when I knew what was said was false or manipulative. So - I translated. Faithfully. But whenever I had to translate something the mother-company representatives said which I knew was manipulative, I made a slightly longer pause before the main part of the sentence. All my co-workers caught on very quickly. The mother-company's offers were rejected, we hired a good lawyer and got nearly twice the severance pay they initially offered us. Too bad they didn't have a fine ear for speech rhythm.
TYSM!!!
Thank u paragraph guy for saving us once again!
Thx u paragraph man, u strike again! 😀 👍
THANKS PARAGRAPH GUY
I love these stories
Where's the fucking rest?
Where's rest of the story??? WTF???
There’s no such thing as Israel !!!!
What
You keep telling yourself that
Israel is NOT REAL
...yes there is? And I say this as someone who's very anti Isreal due to the genocide and war crimes they're currently committing
Can anyone provide full clip, please? TiA
There a comment with it near the top
@@Turtle-says-hello , thank you, somehow I missed it.
Where is Israel?
In the middle east. The Tigris and Euphrates (mangled spelling, sorry!) rivers pass through it, or used to. Borders sometimes move.
@cchastant8251 oh ur saying where palestine is
@@cchastant8251oh you mean Palestine
Israel is between delusion lake and nonexistent river
@hamzatalaat8784 no we're saying were a country is, not where an observer state is.
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Palestine not israel
They speak it in both of those countries.
Palestine isn't a real country, cry about it.
I don't think either of them are technically countries though.
@@Euro.Patriot yo correction israel*
@@hamzatalaat8784 Cope and seethe.