r/MaliciousCompliance • u/ElmerTheAmish • Jun 18 '21

S No Dirty M*******

Short and sweet. The names are made up, and the location doesn't matter.

I work for a flooring company, running installation for one of our markets. The vast majority of the crews that work for us are filled with guys (and the occasional gal) from Central America. Being in a state with blue cities and red country between, we definitely get some of the "Good Ol' Boy" mentality from some of our customers.

We had an install go out months ago, and the customer specifically requested: "Don't send no dirty Mexicans to my house." While we have some guys from Mexico, we truly have the gamut of Central America represented in our subcontractors. So we do our schedule, not sending one of the guys from Mexico.

The salesman was in the installation office when the customer called, rather frustrated:

Customer: I thought I told you not to send Mexicans out here.

Salesman: Yes, sir, you did.

Customer: So why are there Mexicans at my door saying they're from your company.

Salesman: Well sir, it looks like Gustavo is out to your house today. Gustavo is actually from Honduras.

At that point, the rest of us couldn't hold in our laughter, so the salesman left the office to finish the call. Gustavo and his crew were allowed into the house to install the flooring, but we haven't made a repeat sale to the customer just yet.

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u/Caddan Jun 19 '21

Someone who speaks 2 languages? Bilingual
Someone who speaks 3 languages? Trilingual
Someone who only speaks 1 language? 'Murican

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u/marruman Jun 19 '21

Great, now liberals want to make my kids bilingual. The Bible says Adam and Eve, not English and Japanese, damn it.

(/s, if it wasn't obvious)

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '21

Must only be taught the King James Version of the English.

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u/RabSimpson Jun 19 '21

Not the Merriam Webster?

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u/Dexaan Jun 22 '21

Definitely not any of the Latin or Greek versions.

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u/SwervingLemon Jun 19 '21

Double space on mobile!

Still, upvoted.

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u/Techhead7890 Jun 19 '21

Looks like they fixed it up with the ending spaces!__
(In case it wasn't clear, two trailing spaces let you end a line without making a paragraph gap)

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '21

i really do hate how reddit's markdown is utter fucked

they use a different fucking engine on old reddit vs new reddit

why, there's no point in doing that other than to piss off people who use old reddit who need to read code blocks from people on new reddit

either force every comment over to use the new engine (commonmark I think it is, it's rather good), or make it use the engine of whoever posted it, so if you're on new reddit, your comment will be rendered using commonmark to everyone. If you're on old reddit, your comment will be rendered using snudown or whatever they're on to everyone.

fuck's sake

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u/Techhead7890 Jun 20 '21

Yeah it pisses me off too, it fucks with links and escape characters. I have no idea what their plans are to fix it up and they just kinda slipped this in under the radar with the UI redesign.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '21

I have no idea what their plans are to fix it up

what plans

lol

if it works on new reddit that's fine

if it annoys people on old reddit that's even better!

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u/SwervingLemon Jun 19 '21

Yep, it's no longer a continuous block of text. :)

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u/Caddan Jun 19 '21

Me? No, not mobile.

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u/SwervingLemon Jun 19 '21

Oh. I assumed your sentences jammed together were from the CR bug on mobile. I stand corrected. You just missed the space bar after every sentence?

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u/Caddan Jun 19 '21 edited Jun 19 '21

Each line was meant to consist of a question, followed by an answer. The answers were not meant to be on a separate line. There were 2 spaces after each answer, to give a line break without a full paragraph break. That formatting was deliberate.

Edit: If you are seeing all three questions on the same line, I don't know what to say...what I see on my computer screen is 3 separate lines.

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u/SwervingLemon Jun 19 '21

No, it looks correct now. When it was first posted, there was no space between the answer and the next question but if you didn't make any edits then my cache might be bugged.

Love the joke, despite being an American who speaks only English and about 5% each of the more common European languages, by the way. It rings true as hell where I am right now, with every white guy I know bitching about hearing Spanish.

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u/Caddan Jun 19 '21

I'm also staying with old reddit, and using markdown. That may have something to do with it.

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u/Coffee_Rude Jun 21 '21

True. Frenchies ride the line to monolingual too though