[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by blazey

Sometimes certain types of people are actually the best for the job and others simply wouldn't do it as well.

I can remember a firm of solicitors who employed a deaf person on their telephone switchboard. She probably had some means of interpreting what the caller said but it was often a real problem for the caller to understand her reply, as like many deaf people never having heard speech she did not form her words in the same way hearing people do. Talking to her face to face she could lip read and to an extent her listener would be able to do the same, but talking to her on the phone was a nightmare for me because I really struggled to understand but then felt very ignorant when I had to keep saying "Pardon?"

I have the same problem understanding telesales people from India (who insist on telling me they are called George or Keith!) and I used to feel that I shouldn't offend them by telling them that I can't understand them but now I think "Why the heck not?" If I haven't a clue what they are chunnering on about then they are really not going to be able to sell me anything are they? (Remember the voodoo woman from Fiji?)

Originally Posted by keetah992000

and that was my point i was making.

And that is why I said such 'discrimination' is not discrimination at all but common sense. It's about time people stopped jumping on the bandwagon and claiming racial harrassment or sexual discrimination or any other sort of thing that is not there at all.