Am I really that deaf?

My boss speaks very quietly, he always turns away from you when talking and to top it all he’s a northerner! Apparently it’s a habit of his to speak vaguely and out of context, so the lads I went for a beer with on Friday were saying, Just Great! So it’s not me, but wait! I have another person to turn to, the senior engineer Roland, surely he can explain things in plain English right? Wrong, he’s French… Though his English is good he’s probably learned a lot of it from my boss, as he also mumbles and talks in riddles, throw in my hearing loss and include the accent and he may as well be an illiterate Chinaman translating English from Bengali. So I’m forever asking for them to repeat themselves which can be embarrassing, and when they do I still don’t hear…You get the picture.


There’s a good reason for this moan:
1) It’s technical work, some of which I’m new to.
2) I need to understand their procedures (I don’t think they have many).
3) I am supposed to be making an impression.
4) These guys are the only two in the company who understand what I need to be doing.

So I need to be wailing and wingeing about not being able to understand what the hell everyone’s on about, but I’ve felt like poo the past couple of weeks and can’t be bothered. Hopefully in a week or two I will be more in touch with what’s going on.

1 comment February 20th, 2008