"They're speaking in tongues," a former sex worker informs me, as the group move on to an elderly Filipino lady, attempting to heal her sight problems.
A few dozen workers stuffed shoe tongues with padding, brushed glue onto foot molds and ran laces through nearly finished sneakers.
He was more tongue-in-cheek with us workers on the floor than with the upper echelons.
Big firms are making English their internal language, even if it is not the native tongue of most of their workers.
I think often of those beleaguered workers, cleaning clubs, biting their tongues, saying all the opposite things of how they really feel.
An outfit called the Beijing Speaks Foreign Languages Program issues prefabricated foreign phrases to workers who cannot converse in any foreign tongue.
Workers welded it into place, the troll's long tongue snaking past a long spud wrench grasped by the troll's webbed hands.
Lawyers representing Uber workers have accused the company of "doublespeak" and speaking with "forked tongues" over claims of job creation and its relationship with drivers.
Just think of the increasing number of encounters social workers have with clients that do not speak their mother tongue.
Workers who earn minimum wage realize their employers have no real hold on their tongues.
Flores warned his workers that if they ever spoke about their experiences he would cut out their tongues.
