Can anybody make sense of this for me?

"Good Morning! My scheduler,Buy phone from you or buy phone from associate.Which one is better for you?Could you tell me that?I think you are scheduler,you can answer my question.Thanks."

LOL. Sorry, Dante. I've got nothing. I wonder if English is their second language? Their reports have to be very interesting!

dmh426 Wrote:
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> LOL. Sorry, Dante. I've got nothing. I wonder if
> English is their second language? Their reports
> have to be very interesting!

Glad I don't edit them! Thanks, needed a laugh tonight. Still going hard and still have 36 shops to assign before deadline!

Dante, does this shopper have a phone shop scheduled with you? If so, surely they don't understand they are not supposed to buy a phone. If not, perhaps they actually need a phone and think perhaps they should buy it from you. Sounds like a language problem. I sincerely hope this is not a joke.

This shopper, whom I will not name (I'm not like that), has screwed up several shops. I know I can't work with them, and luckily they cannot self-assign, so I'm good.

DanteScheduler Wrote:
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> Can anybody make sense of this for me?
>
> "Good Morning! My scheduler,Buy phone from you or
> buy phone from associate.Which one is better for
> you?Could you tell me that?I think you are
> scheduler,you can answer my question.Thanks."


Ok let me try - in pieces: buy phone from you = do I buy the phone from you or from the associate. I think they want to know if they need to purchase a phone and if so who do they buy it from. They may also want to know, since several shops require certain types of phones, how do they obtain that certain type of phone?

I am guessing here since I sometimes write slower then my brain and only half the message comes out. I have learned to read my messages several times since I started msing.


ps where are the shops located that you need filled?

Here's my take:

He wants to buy a phone. He thinks you are Apple, or Samsung, or Verizon, or whatever. He wants to know if it is better for you if he buys from you (direct) or from the associate at the store (a middleman).

It's educational for me, if I ever run into a future situation like this again.

Dante,

Did you try e-ing or calling the shopper for clarification? Not sure how GFK would feel about your post here.

Take good care

There is no identifying information on this. Basically, I am given discretion on how to handle everything, as long as I follow basic guidelines (Still an independent contractor). I am obviously not dignified enough to be allowed on the scheduler forum on the V-God board, so I figured I would give the shoppers who would like insight on scheduling a sample of some of the things a scheduler must deal with.

KathyC Wrote:
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> Dante,
>
> Did you try e-ing or calling the shopper for
> clarification? Not sure how GFK would feel about
> your post here.
>
> Take good care

I see a rejected shop happening...

Should have stopped at "Good morning."

dmh426 Wrote:
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> LOL. Sorry, Dante. I've got nothing. I wonder if
> English is their second language? Their reports
> have to be very interesting!


No, no, no...English must be at least their 4th language.

Dante's Response:

Good afternoon! My shopper,thank you write email. My question,what email means?I think you are shopper writer, you can answer my question.

I want to say this: If I sent you a message as my scheduler and you put it on this forum, I'd be beyond ticked off.

Well I think your message would make more sense than what this Shopper wrote... If a Shopper wrote this to me, sorry to say but I would ask them to contact the general help email for the MSC.

Does this person have a shop scheduled to which he/she is referring?

Take you pick from these answers, "Yes" "No" "Maybe" and "Orange"

If you feel like being a total radical then tell them "Dump truck"


It has worked for me.

The editor rejected their shop unfortunately. I thought the report would end up brilliant, to be completely honest. Shows how much I know.

Mary, I can see your point, but Dante did not put it here to draw ridicule and for the most part he did not get that. He got honest attempts to help him decipher the obviously ESL message he got. Which in my mind is better than answering what he thought it might have meant and maybe making things worse.

I think the forum has generally tried to be helpful when people are struggling with the language.

Sadly, this person needs to find another career because following instructions is ultra-important here and if he cannot understand the instructions, and cannot communicate in English well enough to get help, he is really doomed.

(Might have been better if he had just written in his native language; a quick run through a translator might have at least cleared up what he was asking. I was able to answer a post made in Italian here by running the question and my response through a translator. I've seen several posts in foreign languages here that were answered by forum members in the language of the first post.)

MDavisnowell Wrote:
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> I want to say this: If I sent you a message as my
> scheduler and you put it on this forum, I'd be
> beyond ticked off.


If sent message you like that one you deserve would be to enjoyed on forum. and know wouldn't probably somthing wrong

edit: I first said shamed, I didn't mean that so harshly.

why can't we enjoy funny stuff at an anonymous persons expense? If you took that joy away from cops, firefighters, and healthcare workers we would go crazy.

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/16/2014 01:03AM by quiettime.

I would NEVER ridicule a shopper; I honestly couldn't understand the message and I would have rather had it in the shoppers native language, because, as dspeakes stated, I could have translated it somehow. I just wanted to make sure my mind didn't play tricks on me and maybe someone else could have understood it much better than I could.

Hmmmm.... I wonder if he/she meant "by phone" not "buy phone" - a simple mix-up of homonyms.

By phone from you or by phone from associate could have meant "whom should I contact by phone regarding this rejected report?"

I am quite surprised at the jabs a few shoppers are making at the shopper who wrote the message. Yes, it is true that the shopper's english is not good in this message. Perhaps the shopper is only doing shops that do not include a narrative. I myself would write a message much worse than this one if I wrote in pretty much any other language than english. There are many who can understand a language when it is written (and instructions too) but have trouble composing a sentence that makes sense in the same foreign language.
As for translation...I received a translation of a voice message left on my google voice account by a native english speaker. It made absolutely no sense at all. At least this one has some elements I can understand in it. If this shopper was using a translation service it is far superior to the one that google voice uses.

Hmmm,

Was this a shopper generated text, or perhaps a google voice transcription? The later regularly garbles my messages and I have to listen to them.

It was an email, sent from an IPad. Google Voice does that to me too sometimes.

vlade5394 Wrote:
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> Hmmm,
>
> Was this a shopper generated text, or perhaps a
> google voice transcription? The later regularly
> garbles my messages and I have to listen to them.

We could have quite an amusing thread listing Google voice transcriptions and what the caller actually said. I had a good one once -- This is an C calling from nostrils to go. that should be: This is Nancy calling from Naturals to Go.

Poor shopper, and poor scheduler... I hate language barriers. If this shopper wants to shop they need to get an interpreter or find a scheduler that can speak his/her language. There is a market out there foreigners, they are customers too....

There are plenty of ESL classes available. I think if one wants to have a career in a place that speaks primarily English, one must take advantage of these classes.. Many places have them for free. If you cannot read, write or speak the language, how is it that you can do a shop? I never do French shops because my French is not as good as my English. I could not and refuse to give a company sub par reports not matter how well my intentions are.. How can a client rely on a report from a person whose language skills are lacking? They can't. It's unfortunate but very much a reality.

It was a Smartphone shop and it has narrative.

I was just making sure I was lucid and not imagining things or was stricken with Mad Cow or something (inside joke- "Boston Legal" humor). I feel for the individual and wish there was something I could to to reach out and help (after all, that's what a scheduler is supposed to do).

sandyf Wrote:
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> I am quite surprised at the jabs a few shoppers
> are making at the shopper who wrote the message.
> Yes, it is true that the shopper's english is not
> good in this message. Perhaps the shopper is only
> doing shops that do not include a narrative. I
> myself would write a message much worse than this
> one if I wrote in pretty much any other language
> than english. There are many who can understand
> a language when it is written (and instructions
> too) but have trouble composing a sentence that
> makes sense in the same foreign language.
> As for translation...I received a translation of a
> voice message left on my google voice account by a
> native english speaker. It made absolutely no
> sense at all. At least this one has some elements
> I can understand in it. If this shopper was using
> a translation service it is far superior to the
> one that google voice uses.