Mexico decides American Laws?

[rpm]

Originally posted by AWMac
Pleeez tell me....This has GOTTA be good!!!!


Mac

Hmm, have to edit this without giving Western Union info away...
OK, a customer comes in at the start of my shift and wants to send a WU payment to his mortgage company. The CodeCity he has listed is not on my screen. I find a different codecity for the same receiver, but want to make sure it gets to the correct account. Trying to give a damn here and not screw the guy... I call Western Union Customer Service...

I tell the customer to be sure his payment goes to the right account, I'm calling WU and check. I call the customer service number enter the applicable codes and get an operator. The following story is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent...

WU Operator: Tis iz opuratir 205. Kahn I havre vour IV numtar?

RPM: I'm sorry, I didn't understand you. Say again?

WU Operator: Tis iz opuratir 205. Kahn I havre vour IV numtar?

RPM: Do you want my ID number? It's xxx-xx-xxxx-x

WU Operator: Frank yow. Wow way my felt woo.

RPM: Umm, I'm trying to send a XYZtransfer, but the code city is not showing on my terminal. I want to make sure the customer gets the right receiver. Can you check it for me?

WU Oper: Sum chew howa monatollaotsow holla data.

RPM: Excuse me I didn't understand you.

WU Oper: Sum chew howa monatollaotsow holla data.

RPM: Listen, all I understood was data.  Can I have another operator that speaks better english?

WU Oper: Woo khant understahn me?

RPM: No, I can't.

WU Oper: Then why u ancer my questyun?

RPM: Give me your supervisor, now.

WU  Oper: Wahn meauxmont pweiz

RPM listens to elevator muzak...

WU Super: Hellrow, y ham  opuratir 219. Kahn I havre vour IV numtar?

RPM beats forehead against counter...

[culero]

Originally posted by moot
I fell for that appearance too, lent them money after a year+ of mutual help and hanging out.  They took it and ran with it, litteraly.
They're no different than any other human.. the one category they most belong to is desperation.

They should get in line like everyone else.  If the US really needs the labor and whatever else they offer, then it will legaly accept them as they already are, illegaly.

moot, all due respect bro, but I reckon I'm in a better position to make this call.

As I type this from my house, I am a 20 minute drive from an international bridge to Mexico. The area I live in has a population of close to a million people, 85-90% (depending on which demographic studies you believe) of Mexican heritage. On the other side of that bridge (and the other half-dozen or so bridges here) there are close to twice that many Mexicans living. I am bilingual, English primary but also fluent in Mexican-dialect Spanish.

I grew up in this community, as did my father and mother before me. I'd say its likely I'm a lot more in touch with the community and cultural values of the average Mexican immigrant or Hispanic American than you and most people who post on this board.

I'll repeat myself. Mexicans make good neighbors. They tend to be hard-working, industrious, and have excellent family values. I manage the circulation of a couple of newspapers here, and I accomplish all my deliveries by contracting them to individuals. I manage about 150 contractors and employees. Maybe half a dozen or 10 of them are gringos. Of all 150, maybe 2 or 3 are lazy and unproductive (and they won't last long!) I do business with 40,000 or so subscribers and a couple of thousand retail partners. Only about 10% of those are gringos. Suffice it to say I have a little experience with how honest and productive Mexicans and Hispanic Americans are

I don't doubt you've had a bad experience. Mexicans, like anyone else, do have butt-heads in their community and families and I agree those individuals are despicable. But I'm telling you, from my position of experience, that this is as atypical for Mexicans as it is for gringos.

[culero]

Originally posted by Elfie
Thats awesome.......just as long as they come here LEGALLY.

I could not agree more as to that.

[storch]

Originally posted by culero
You guys need to get over it. Mexicanos are good neighbors, even when their backs are wet. Strong work ethic and strong family devotion, which they tend to have in spades, are qualities to be admired. That's exactly the kind of people I want for neighbors in my community.

ain't that the truth.  mexicans are by far the best citizens in this town.

[storch]

Originally posted by moot
I fell for that appearance too, lent them money after a year+ of mutual help and hanging out.  They took it and ran with it, litteraly.
They're no different than any other human.. the one category they most belong to is desperation.

They should get in line like everyone else.  If the US really needs the labor and whatever else they offer, then it will legaly accept them as they already are, illegaly.

I'll share storch's rule for lending money.  generally speaking I don't.  

people get themselves into holes.  it builds a better person if the can climb out, I don't interfere with anyone's personal growth.  

On the very few occassions where I have given someone money I do just that I give it and forget about it.  If I've given you money I've done it from my discreationary funds.  that money was probably earmarked for new fishing tackle or a firearm or some such item.  that account seldom has more than $1200 because those items seldomly exceed that amount.  

If I gave you that money it brought me as much joy to share it with you as the new toy would have brought me.  

I have never lost a friend over money but through the years people I have considered friends have gone away because they were expecting my discipline and organizational skills were theirs to tap.  when I said sure I'd help and teach them what they needed to do to solve their problem instead of "lending them money" some left.

[VWE]

Uhhh gee Wally... can I have $20.00 to go by some Starbucks coffee before I run out?  

[storch]

starbucks in the iraqi fertile crescent?  say it ain't so!!! besides you don't need twnty bucks you need some good cuban expresso for a buck twenty five

[culero]

storch, you're all right....no matter what the BKs say

[storch]

BKs are sock puppets and shane is the puppeteer

[storch]

I sure do miss that BK I destroyed, whatever it's name was.  

[moot]

We're in (almost) perfect agreement Storch, and Culero.
Culero, although I concede you do have more experience than I do, and I accept your opinion is better founded, I still say they need to leave just like every other illegal, and come back legally.
Good neighbours as they may be, everyone'll be better off once they do.

[Toad]

Legal immigration is the key.

Otherwise, they are just criminals like any other criminals no matter how nice or friendly they are or what great neighbors they make.

IMO they are being used as a tool to destroy the middle class in the US. This will eventually be the true problem and true cost of illegal immigration.

[Slash27]

Originally posted by AWMac
You in DFW?

I work near D/FW airport and live about 60 miles north of there.

[storch]

unquestionably legal immigration is the key.  it is also a major issue which neither political party has the courage to address.

[Mr No Name]

after and ONLY after U.S. unemployment hits 0.00% should we allow any immigrants in... and even then, only legally and only what we NEED.