11/10/2007, 9:32 pm
Comrades, I had a most disturbing and traumatic experience today. I called a certain company that shall remain anonymous at this time. This certain company has an automated telephone answering system used to direct calls to the proper kkkapitalist within their blood-sucking ranks.
The horror began after the standard greeting, when I was directed to "press one" for English then was directed to "PRESS TWO" FOR SPANISH! How long are we going to make second class citizens out of our undocumented worker population? Will the Caucasian overlords of Amerikkkan society forever relegate them to number two status? Can't you see how psychologically demeaning it is for a Spanish-speaker to call one of these numbers and be instantly reminded of their permanent underclass status?
And what about all of the other non-English speakers? What number am I to dial for Hindi? For Farsi? Where is the choice for Ubange?
I demand that the government act. People's feelings may be hurt if this continues! We must have a federal law mandating that any company that uses a telephone in the course of its business MUST be all inclusive, and hire as many multilingual receptionists as necessary to provide real-time native language responses to callers. In addition, the numbers to be pressed to direct the call to a particular language must be randomized daily so that no one is always "number one" (except that English must always be the last choice).
This will of course require a large federal bureau to oversee compliance and random wire-taps on these kkkapitalist enemies of liberty to insure that all are meeting the required multicultural standards. This in turn will require a new federal usage surcharge, but it will only apply to the telephones of the rich and of registered rethuglicans.
The horror began after the standard greeting, when I was directed to "press one" for English then was directed to "PRESS TWO" FOR SPANISH! How long are we going to make second class citizens out of our undocumented worker population? Will the Caucasian overlords of Amerikkkan society forever relegate them to number two status? Can't you see how psychologically demeaning it is for a Spanish-speaker to call one of these numbers and be instantly reminded of their permanent underclass status?
And what about all of the other non-English speakers? What number am I to dial for Hindi? For Farsi? Where is the choice for Ubange?
I demand that the government act. People's feelings may be hurt if this continues! We must have a federal law mandating that any company that uses a telephone in the course of its business MUST be all inclusive, and hire as many multilingual receptionists as necessary to provide real-time native language responses to callers. In addition, the numbers to be pressed to direct the call to a particular language must be randomized daily so that no one is always "number one" (except that English must always be the last choice).
This will of course require a large federal bureau to oversee compliance and random wire-taps on these kkkapitalist enemies of liberty to insure that all are meeting the required multicultural standards. This in turn will require a new federal usage surcharge, but it will only apply to the telephones of the rich and of registered rethuglicans.
