Like someone else said, I have a general rule about how many times I have to ask "pardon?" I live in France, but I've only been speaking French for about five years, so though I'm fluent I haven't had the luxury of hearing it my entire life, so if somebody's talking really fast, or especially if someone with a foreign accent is speaking French, I'm not going to ask them what they're saying seventy-five times.

number 5 is a doucher

#15-- that IS the kind of thing you can tell your boss, though, as the Haitian was trying to do. You wouldn't?

Don't worry; this Mexican guy I work with at mcdonalds kept asking me if I was gay. I can never understand his accent so I kept shrugging my shoulders and saying I don't know. =P

Yuck, 24, I just reread and realized this person is the one running the restaurant... WTF are they doing with employees they can't talk to??? Just more proof that morons with no social skills are running all the restaurants.

Wow #15 - You're an asshole. A heartless asshole. /BTW... my grandmother just passed. //Not really.

I get that too, but I'm also parcially deaf, so all I can make out are muffles when anyone with a thick accent comes up. I say parden me, BUT THEY KEEP TALKING REALLY LOW. I lean in to say "I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"

Dude, that sucks. I completely understand though. I work with a bunch of Haitians and I can never understand them, and I'm good with accents. I do that all the time.

maybe he should learn to speak english properly.

I work in the IT department at my university, and when the foreign students call over the phone it's damn near impossible to understand what they're saying. It is easier when they come in because then I can ask to see their school ID so I can at least spell their name. OP does NOT deserve it...some people are too difficult to understand and need to try harder if they want to live here. And I'm not some hateful Republican either, I'm just a student who knows how hard it is to understand accents...