If you live in the U.S., does it annoy you to Press 1 for English??
By ShadyGrove
@ShadyGrove (996)
United States
January 20, 2007 1:05pm CST
Since I live in the U.S. and English is the primary language, it annoys me that I have to Press 1 for English when I make phone calls to companies.
If you speak Spanish, which is usally the other choice, then it should just be an automatic to press some other number.
How do you feel about the Primary Language having to be the one to Press 1, or else you hear directions in Spanish???
Do ANY other countries do this or even give you the option?
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5 responses
@sunshinecup (7871)
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20 Jan 07
Yes that does tend to bug me that I have to call an American Company, located in America, and push a button for English. I think it should be anyone else should push a button and they should offer more languages other than English and Spanish. If I only spoke German, that would be very insulting, don't you think.
But I push the button, and go on. What can you do, you know?
@ShadyGrove (996)
• United States
20 Jan 07
I just push the button too, and I really hate getting caught in the phone computer loop too!
Maybe we can all e-mail the companies that do this and complain? It is just everywhere though, it's nuts.
@ShadyGrove (996)
• United States
20 Jan 07
Yes, the set up for calling is often very frustrating. I wonder if they make it especially hard to call in to avoid so many calls??
@freak369 (5113)
• United States
7 Feb 07
I don't press anything; I pretend like I still have rotary service (which we did at one house when we first moved here) so I can talk to a customer service agent quicker. It is a HUGE waste of time to listen to all the voice mail hell messages; to get around most of them just preess 00 (zero zero) and that usually takes you to an operator on their system.
@lisado (1227)
• United States
5 Feb 07
This ticks me off to no end! Also, when they give the menu and then repeat it in Spanish before even giving me the option to select English. It seems that a lot of jobs, even fast food, prefer people that can speak more than one language.
I think that a lot of people forget that while it is a melting pot, English has always been our primary language. When I hear stories about people killing their kids because a Spanish speaking counselor wasn't available, or suing the government because the driver's test wasn't offered in Spanish, I really get ticked off!
When it was mentioned to my husband a few years ago that we might be transferred to Japan, we were told that we would need to learn some basic Japanese before we moved because it was rude to go to another country to live and not even attempt to learn the language. I agreed with them. We didn't end up going, but I understood and agreed with their reasoning. Why move to a country and not even attempt to learn the language?
@Momof2Babes (48)
• United States
4 Feb 07
I think it's dumb to have to press one! Drives me insane! I'm like you.. why not press a button if you want a different language?
