Don't worry about it - I'm very, very English (Traced to about 17th century) and I'd have asked you the same question - so its not just foreigners you have to be suspicious of, it's us English as well. (Though lots of my family are from the West Midlands and up North, which is pretty bad as I'm really rather southern!)
Artie (My NG posting name)
Hmmm :) Been offered a job as a skip truck driver, make a change from fixin n m.o.t.ing cars :O)
your absolutely right, try going into Sainsbury's filling up your shopping trolley then asking for discount at the checkout, what you reckon the response will be ?
no matter who they are , there's too many piss-takers ( customers ) in the motor trade, you can give a quote, guesstimate, what ever you call it, even a quote set in stone and the f****rs still moan when they get the bill, you cannot win with the general public !!!!!
Unfortunately I know what you mean and unfortunately it is classed as racism. It either costs my company thousands of pounds, results in criminal acts or in worse case scenarios someone gets seriously injured. Despite the odd being stacked highly against certain groups I can not legally discriminate for any reason.
Despite being unprejudiced I am still labelled a racist and face threats and violence on a weekly basis, sometimes daily despite sticking to the law.
What did you expect?? You're in the Motor Trade son not exactly the most respected of occupations when it's common practise to Rip off the General public.
Also I don't know why everyone is shocked at his apparent racism, as he deserves our pity for being a grease monkey and therefore not the sharpest tool in the box.
and you base these opinions on what exactly ?
just out of interest what do you do for a living ?
True in a sense, but at the end of the day doing any job on a car for £20 is rock bottom money, and it is taking the piss to knock that down. Whilst I don't like mrcheerful's racist attitude, I can certainly understand this aspect. Having said that, I'd say it's often worth upping the price a bit if you get the impression that the person asking is going to haggle over the price, so you end up at the price you'd have originally quoted anyway.
Peter
David Taylor ( snipped-for-privacy@yadt.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
That he's a Xenophobe.
A racist discriminates on the grounds of race. Many people of different races carry UK passports. Many people carrying non-UK passports are caucasian.
A Xenophobe dislikes people on the grounds of nationality.
Neither are attractive character traits; and both are signs of a very small, very closed mind.
Adrian wrote on 04 Jul 2005 07:48:47 GMT:
Ah, yes, I suppose that would be more accurate.
Here, I agree...
Why is it, that the greatest number of follow-on posts are on "off-topic" matters?
Don't you just love usenet.
Typical !!!
rant follwed by question followed by a mona followed by on topic steering towards again post :)
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