Failure to communicate.

[laptop-mechanic.livejournal.com]

As some of you know, I work for a university run repair shop. This means I see a lot of students, especially exchange students.  Exchange students are especially hard to deal with, as their command of english usually rates somewhere between decent to really, really bad.  And its the bad ones that really give you some head-desk moments. And thats just trying to get an accurate problem description out of them. We often end up having to resort to email only interactions with them to make them understand anything, and even then it frequently takes several attempts to get the point across.  I fail to see how they're able to pass any of their classes if their ability to communicate with their professors is this impaired.

And dont even get me started on the exchange students from the medical school. There are few things more obnoxious than a doctor with training wheels, and their "drop everything and help me RIGHT NOW" mentality.

Comments

[sami-rdwd.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain, except most of the foriegn students I speak with are over the phone. The only ones I see are the ones usually coming in to get their user name and password... other than that, I get to decipher what they're saying over the phones and attempt to get them to understand my directions on how to correct their computer problems.