Years ago a departmental female executive introduced me to another higher level female executive. Ordinarily, nothing untoward about that. Except this person, without batting an eyelid, used not my Italian name but the anglised version. Even translated the last name!
ApostopheBoksburg, Gauteng South Africa1,937 posts
I was twenty eight years old and had just got a job in another suburb. It meant travelling by train - which was new to me so I was a bit frantic.
On the first day of the new job I walked to the station not far from the apartment I lived and asked the ticket seller from which platform my train would leave. He looked me straight in the eye and directed me to the wrong one.
I arrived an hour and ten minutes late but the boss was OK with my explantion.
I speak a foreign language (to me) every day, the people tend to shout at you the minute they notice you are a foreigner, I often feel like saying "I am not deaf, was just born somewhere else"
Here? I send him flower and said nice treads, he nothing said,I asked him in messige why he don't replay me and he blocked me. Do not say anything, just block, is probably more ridiculous.
gillyloves69OPlondon, Greater London, England UK7,359 posts
venere08: Years ago a departmental female executive introduced me to another higher level female executive. Ordinarily, nothing untoward about that. Except this person, without batting an eyelid, used not my Italian name but the anglised version. Even translated the last name!
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