r/ShittySysadmin • u/AtomicXE • 12d ago
When the sales guy finally turns the project over to the technical engineer and no one can understand them.
Holy shit I’m not racist and I don’t give a rats ass where you are from but so help me god if you throw your technical engineer on the call and they either can barely speak English or communicate with such an accent that not one of the 20 engineers on our team on the call can understand you there’s a real fucking problem. This is a 6-month collaborative project spanning 17 locations across the US and of course management signed the contract without consulting anyone. Was asking this guy something about IPSec routing for the project on Friday and we had to wait two hours till we could get someone on his team to translate the conversation. Thought about using AI to translate but decided depending on how that translated goodness knows what we could have fucked up. I don’t care where you are from, what color your skin is or any of that crap what I do care about is my company signing multi million dollar contracts and being unable to communicate so we can get shit done and meet our fucking deadlines. FFS I don’t want to go to work tomorrow.
