i was told by some UK (!) scientists to drop multisens research as "old news and old been said".. 2 successful grant apps (in CH) later..
To be fair, it was more than rudeness it was also just plain horribleness. E.g, we asked for a menu in English in a rest w English outside
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and they said "No and I will not translate for you, try and figure it out". The menu had 4 items and besides asking about the items in any
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language is normal when ordering. So I dunno. I tend to think less educated people tend to be kind and polite just as often in other places.
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Maybe it's not about SES? Just cultural?
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TBH "went a stranger to a Swiss restaurant" is how 98% swiss-made horror stories start. they LIKE if u use the respective lands language.
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Next one we went to spoke Italian (Spanish, Portuguese) and was willing to try English, so it was fine. One of us speaks p good Italian.
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Try English somewhere high up there in a alpine hut. Chances are they just can't speak it.
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All the cog trains had announcements in English and they go all the way to the "Top of Europe". Impressive country!
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To get to the top there you almost universally might need at least good hiking boots, if not crampons, ice axe, rope, etc :)
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omg love where this is going..
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We got up and left BTW.

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good. they don't care tho. tips are included in their salaries already..
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Well, we didn't leave to spite anybody, just pointless to stay. Besides they got to do exactly what they wanted: shame us.
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