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Re:Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn by weslleyskah on Monday December 29, 2025 @10:26PM (#46429201)
You are comparing different environments. Inside a startup or a multinational it will obviously be quite common.

But you can't expect low level bureaucrats from a transportation company to start speaking english when it is not required to perform the job.

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Re:Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn by pimeys on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @03:45AM (#46430984)
I was answering to this part:

> The German site at my multinational company at the time was the only site on Earth which had to introduce an internal regulation about mandatory English, because they just switched to German all the time even when there were people on the call from different countries.

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Re:Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn by weslleyskah on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @10:01AM (#46433945)
Oh yeah, it was for the parent
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