The guy who hired her seems like a genuinely well - meaning guy who was just reckless and made a big mistake. Hopefully he doesn't lose a lot from this.
It doesn’t even seem like that big of a mistake, they weren’t gonna have an interpreter in the first place from what it looks like and the absurdity of that woman’s plan means it was very easy to look a gift horse in the mouth, plus he seemed to very responsibly own up to his mistake at the end
lol. This could have been avoided if they had someone who already knew sign language around when they hired her. A: Okay, we need someone who knows sign language. Can you demonstrate? B: *flails their hands around* A: You're hired!
@@lawrencelopez9839 well to be fair, most people don’t know sign language and look at it from their perspective, they really needed anyone who knew sign language for an emergency and suddenly, a woman volunteers. They would have very little reason not to take her in because who would lie about it? Unfortunately for them, the woman had that dawg in her and trolled the entire department.
@@lawrencelopez9839normal people wouldn’t lie about that😭 someone comes in and says “if you need an interpreter I can do it” the first thing you think isn’t “she’s lying, she doesn’t know” And he admitted he didn’t have a trained eye, she could’ve known one phrase in sign language and used that, considering she did sign a few things right
I'll also add for the second case that simply knowing ASL doesn't mean you're qualified to interpret. There's a whole other level to it as you have to taken in a language, go over it in your head very quickly, and output it while also still taking in the other language. There's a lot of work involved in making sure you are paying attention to both what you hear/see and what you are signing/saying. It's all simultaneous. So him knowing ASL does not mean he would've been comfortable interpreting even in a less important situation. Also this is just a byproduct of places like Florida having little to no quality control. Some states have levels of testing you have to do in order to even apply to interpret at certain events, especially for legal and government-based ones.
She can all of our inspiration to be confident in something you’re actually knowledgeable in or end up being in her position. Does she have fame? Yes. Infamy
@Zwodder i think what she was trying to mimic was finger spelling. We did it in my ASL class to sign our names and words we didn’t know the actual signs for to ask our professor what the actual signs for them were. My professor could finger spell really quickly, but he’s been deaf since birth so I can imagine he’s had practice. If you actually slow down the portion where it looks like she was finger spelling, you can see that she didn’t sign any letters at all. I don’t know a lot of ASL and I’m relatively new to it, but Yikes! I’m seriously concerned that people like that can get interpretation jobs 😱
I do not know sign language, but hesitating while interpreting sign language is a clear indicator. All of sign language is simple, concise and easy to see.
as someone who has barely started to learn sign language she actually looks legit. She’s actually signed a decent amount of real words. Anything else not recognized I would have assumed I just didn’t know enough sign yet. So she clearly has spent time studying the language. So she should have known she wasn’t ready to do this yet. Like the second guy, he knew he didn’t know enough to do it.
@@richardcarter8751 look it up lol. When segregation was a thing black ppl couldnt learn normal asl in school so they had to teach it themselves and there were some differences between them but not too many Its considered a dialect of regular asl
@@BigBrosFilms Florida also has different laws regarding stories that can be reported and what not. I'm not an expert on it myself, but the tdlr is that if it's a slow day at the office, just browse the arrests in Florida
As a South African I vividly remember when we had a fake sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela's memorial service. All he could sign was "Hello. How are you?"
Well that sucked, when the language sign interpreter, fakes his job and can only do "hello. How are you. It's would've been some one else who's very good at sign language
@@ananasbanana not entirely just hello but that made up a large portion of what they where saying. there was also the gibberish hands thing and also some unrelated signs like time and smoking from what i remember anyways
Respect to the man who made the mistake of hiring that lady. He didn't try to deflect blame, he didn't act like she was this incredible con-woman who could deceive the entire FBI or something... No, he owned up to it, took it like a man, and was honest about his mistake to the world. This is a man who should keep his job because I guarantee he's learned from this experience and will be an even better and more thorough employee in the future. He really showed us his character! I'd rather have an honest man who makes a few mistakes every now and then working for me as opposed to a selfish narcissist who doesn't make mistakes but is a complete jerk and thinks they're perfect.
A lot of the comments say, “Fake it until you make it.” I get that logic but some of the best jobs I have ever had were when I was transparent in the interview and said, “I don’t know how to do that specifically but I want the position to learn how.” My favorite job to date was that. I was attempting to change careers and had some overlapping experience as an intake specialist in regards to paperwork but at the time no clinical experience. It was at the peak of the pandemic, so medical staff was necessary. But I said, “I need training on that.” Anything I didn’t get I owned up to immediately and got more support. By the end of my time there I was training new staff and was able to get the S.O.P. on paper for them AND had an entire new skill set/trade. My new position runs different diagnostic test then what I’m experienced in and I was honest in the interview and let them know I was inexperienced in those things and that I was going to need training before I was on my own. I started as a Community Health Aide and I am now a Certified Community Health Worker II and have given community health presentations to audiences that have consisted of political aids, my respected peers and colleagues, I even did a free health series at a college. Boomers have the working style of never admitting to mistakes and acknowledging you didn’t know something, so fake it till you make it is a relic of that Protestant work ethic. Admitting to your deficiencies, asking permission to mistakes because you are learning come from a growth mindset model that’s actually more healthy and leads to more success. This lady was just scamming to scam, I don’t think she wants to be an ASL interpreter, I think she just got bored and wanted to start drama. I don’t think there was anything genuine in her intent.
I know I’m late, but this was really helpful for me rn where I’m at in my life. Thanks for taking the time to type this comment and share your experience.
I feel bad for Marshal. I’m bilingual and I took up a translator job and it absolutely kicked my ass. I spoke fluently but that’s just daily conversation. Formal business language was a whole different story. Saying “I’m fluent in ___” means two completely different things depending on if you’re telling a friend, or informing your workplace
Also dialects. You can be fluent in a language but if you've never heard of a certain dialect or accent, it may as well be a different language altogether.
To both of you, that's big real. I am building my resume now that I graduated in the biomed engineering field. I also know Spanish. I can travel to a Spanish speaking country, I can talk about my past, entertainment, grocery shopping, future, etc. But if you ask me to explain molar conversions and derivatives of heat transfer to map out statistical error, there is no way in hell I could do that with a flake of scientific nuance. Guess that's 9 years of Spanish down the drain for a more fluffed resume lmao.
I get what you mean. I live on the border, have a great friend of mine who works at the same call center with me and while I hear her speak Spanish pretty regularly, there is no way she could speak Spanish well enough to be a bilingual agent. Sometimes it doesn’t matter if you can speak a different language or in this case sign one. Sometimes you just can’t keep up with the rate they are asking you to do a task in
Yes, I’ve noticed that translating is harder than just speaking a language too. I can understand a sentence in my 2nd language, but I’ll sometimes struggle to find the right words in my native language because there’s not an exact translation.
Charlie, you left by far the the funniest case out which was the guy who fake signed at Nelson Mandela's funeral. That one was particularly hilarious and they went to his home to interview him after which was also funny!
Same. For a brief shining moment I thought that District 8 Hospital Worker had survived the Capital bombing after all, and after saving his reality (behind the scenes of course) he intuited that our reality is in dire straits and was now here to save us. But alas, twas not to be 😢
people don't understand how awful this is for members of the Deaf community. because of the lack of knowledge around accessibility in society for the Deaf community, and the fact that captions don't cut it at all for a multitude of reasons, interpreters provide a critical service in providing information for the Deaf community, and when hearing people get up and decide to interpret because they wanna make a quick buck or whatever, it not only makes a mockery of the community, it instantly destroys their ability to understand the broadcast. it's disgusting
I understand that it may have been impossible to understand the broadcast, but at least in the first broadcast this wasn't like urgent news or anything, this is the sort of thing you could just have a laugh about and then read the story properly from an article a few hours later if you're that curious. The hurricane evacuation one though, yes it's absolutely horrible, but tbf the guy didn't want to do it either. And also, before you go after me for being disrespectful to the deaf, consider that this isn't a problem exclusive to deaf people, anyone who doesn't know English could also be affected by a similar thing happening, just with the language they know rather than ASL
@@usernamemctypey428 yeah but excluding deaf people from acessing information under the guise of providing acesss isn't a laughing matter for the deaf community. This person profited off og pretending to provide access
I mean. Hats off to the guy who admitted to being responsible. Most people would find a way to push the blame. Not him. Just a simple. “Yup, i messed up, and I won’t do it again” we need more people like that.
"Insane how something so stupid becomes so smart" I bet if she got away w/ it she would've used that as proof/experience to actually get hired at another place.
I feel pretty bad for the guy that was forced to do the signing for the evacuation, can't imagine how scary and nerve-wracking it would have been to be put in a situation where you were asked to say things you didn't know how to say. I speak a second language pretty well conversationally, but if I was asked to describe in detail the state of the economy (or some other complicated topic) in that language I wouldn't be able to, so I really sympathize with this guy's situation.
Not only was his job stressful when not having enough information, his job in this case was purposed to potentially save lives. That's the scariest part.
I gave him so much shit when we evacuated because I have a deaf godmother and I was furious. Turns out she had moved to tennessee from tampa three months before so she wasn’t watching the FL news. I still think he should have refused to show up on tv if he didn’t know shit but I will stop mocking him on-sight.
@@thaloblue Hate to say it, but this is why you should learn both sides of the story before outright shitting on someone. Otherwise you end up looking like a twitter cop who rages at everyone and tries to cancel them over things they don't understand. I do feel your pain, don't get me wrong. I'd also be pissed if I had a deaf grandmother who needed to evacuate a hurricane-bound area. However, closed-captioning does exist for most news channels. You should be mad at the people who forced him to be there. He was probably more scared of something else if he were to not show up. Think before you judge.
2:12 "I've got to the admite the 'fake until you make it' attitude here, but unfortunately the only thing to make was a fool of herself" I love Charlie's way with words (I wonder if that's scripted or if he's just a natural wordsmith)
The number one rule I learned in welding "Fake it, til you make it". I still get calls about people working at "Eric's Auto Shop" all these years later.
@@catassholes8690 maybe he did for a reason, he knew he was gonna raise a waste Forgive me I don't have empathy my friend, your dad was a waste for leaving (if it is joke, I know it is joke) if not (oh dear)
You know that lady trolling the police department for free committed no crime doing it, but god damn it was hilarious and somewhat respectable of the police to just own up to that like "yeah we're idiots, none of us know sign-language to even verify, we made an S-rank blunder."
@@moneygrabber6720 no they just took it at face value, I mean why would they think someone would just turn up, and offer a service for free and be conning them 😂. If she asked for payment fine I get it perhaps run a quick check, but the insentive here was purely to troll. I love that the guy felt the need to say 'we won't be using this woman again'.
It is honestly refreshing to on the one hand see a prankster do something that isn't just dumbly harassing or straight up assaulting people and on the other hand see the responsible police officer have a reaction this mature. This video restored a small part of my belief in modern society as a whole.
For an evacuation warning, you can have messages at the bottom of the screen. It just has to contain the elements crucial to evacuation: It's very easy for a local news network to do, it doesn't have to line up with what the officials are saying and can be prepared beforehand. You can even have it repeat throughout the entire day/days regardless of what's being shown which is helpful to the deaf and non-deaf alike. Why this wasn't the chosen method is the question.
The savage-ness of walking into a office uninvited to freely volunteer to be a interpreter for absolutely nothing in return and absolutely have no idea what she’s doing is the most Hilarious part of it all!
one thing i’ve learned from working a lot in hospitality where the quality of service was really important, as long as you act like nothing you just did was by mistake or faulty, most people wont notice a mistake ever happening.
What's crazy is that if you know ASL you can tell she's taken at least one class, and I guess she decided that was good enough because the only signs she knew were ones you would learn as a beginner
@@annetheelf8174 looking up random words you wanna know in a different language is different than taking a beginners class and learning words. I'm currently learning a new language (though very slowly hahaha) and i definitely haven't seen kill or murder in my workbook 🤣🤣
I've been faking being an accountant for like 4 years now. I've actually learned enough to barely be competent. I am literally the embodiment of fake it til you make it.
yknow, with the way things are today, i absolutely respect the hustle i hope you’re doing good homie. if not, remember that there’s strangers out there rooting for you and hoping you make it through!
"I don't know why she would do this other than having fun with it" Most likely she was hoping to spin it off into some kind of money making scheme, and having a televised conference of her interpreting for the police she could use would give her some legitimacy in a lot of potential victims eyes. She just got caught faster than she was probably hoping.
Can we just taka a moment to appreciate the honesty that that conference dude had when they asked him how she got to translating there? He just owned up to it saying he messed up and took it like a real champ. Huge kudos to him for carrying those massive balls of steel around, because God knows that we don't have enough people that are that honest these days
The major problem with the “fake it ‘til you make it” mentality is that most people with the mentality never develop the skills they claim to have once they obtain the jobs. If you are going to lie to get a job, then develop the skills you lied about in order to do the job competently.
Gonna be completely honest with you, most jobs could be done by anyone, including teenagers in high school. No matter the experience or qualifications, anyone is capable of learning a job but not many places are willing to teach anything. So you get a bunch of people faking it til they make it while no company provides them the necessary training to gain those skills. There’s definitely some fault of the workers faking it, but companies need to do better as well
@@prodigy6926 I mean... you can't fake a profession lol. If you have some general knowledge about a profession then it's possible to lie your way up the ladder, if you're a quick learner. But you cannot fake your way into NASA and expect to do a good job. There are a lot of doctors who, I'm like 90% sure, cheated their way through college and lied their way into a job. Like the amount of doctors who still don't understand periods ASTOUNDS me. So in terms of quantity, then I THINK most jobs could be faked (if we're talking fast food, retail, any kind of service tbh). But if you're talking about the diversity of jobs, then no, most cannot be faked. There are so many professions out there that require a lot of knowledge and experience, and if you're not at least good enough to learn and apply other knowledge on the job, then you could end up causing a lot of harm, as well as ensuring you'll never get hired by anyone but McDonald's.
Yeah, I would add that all you really do is learn how to keep lying for as long as possible while also not developing actual skills, because that's all you really spend your time on. What you water grows, as they say.
@firstname lastname well said. A major issue with doctors is that many don't update their knowledge properly and are operating off knowledge from the freaking 60's. It's rampant for drugs (prescription and recreational), and pretty bad for mental health. I don't know if periods were a mystery to the medical community decades ago, though
I know Charlie has always reacted to random videos from ages ago, but multiple videos connected by a common theme (like in this video) is uncommon and pretty interesting to watc. Hope we see more of this stuff.
The best part is they can't even really charge her for anything since she didn't even get paid. Its almost like people pretending to be sign language interpreter is some kind of competition now.
8:55 you can tell the newscaster holding in laughter that his mom came to his defense for signing words like "pizza" and "monsters" as if he was a 5 year old.
The absolute BEST was the guy who faked being a doctor and was put in charge of several patients at a clinic near me in Florida. He was a week away from securing a super high paying job in another state but he got too greedy and got caught before he left.
My mom was a sign language interpreter for years. And there’s levels of interpreters depending on the kind of speech being used. The ones interpreting for doctors and lawyers are on a whole other level compared to ones translating everyday speech.
My wife's step mothers father faked his entire lifes career. Several. He was actually pretty in the news when he got caught. He was a teacher, a psychologist, a chemical engineer etc. He would have to pack up and leave town, create a new identity etc. Ruined his kids childhood but he banked. He easily could have actually been any of his careers but chose to just find the highest paying job around and take it. Genius.
I thought of William Douglas Street, Jr. He faked being "professional reporters, lawyers, athletes, extortionists, and surgeons, going so far as to perform more than 36 successful hysterectomies." HE had ZERO credentials. He's still in prison, and he would have probably gone on to be very successful if he just went to school seriously instead.
My mom reads Braille and you’d be shocked how many times she points to something written in Braille in public and it’s either complete nonsense, filled with typos, or dangerously wrong (we were once in an airport that had the “men” and “women”s signs reversed in the Braille translation)
Sounds like a free money sign. Just walk into the wrong one and offer to settle on damages for emotional pain and them disparaging the disabled. Ask for $10K, it would cost more than a lawyer to do anything.
That story about George Lazenby lying his way into getting the Bond film wasn't entirely true by the way: Lazenby was offered a chance to audition for the part after meeting producer Albert R. Broccoli while they were both getting haircuts. While Lazenby did have a fake resume of acting experience that he showed to the Bond producer Harry Saltzman, Lazenby immediately admitted that it was fake during the meeting - before getting the part. On Her Majesty's Secret Service is one of my personal favorite Bond films too.
Keeping it Bond related: Lazenby is that case when you go to the casino, go to the roulette and put everything in red and win. Then you double down and win again. Your friends tell you to go home now but you bet all the money a third time and the ball now falls in black, so you lose everything. He had the opportunity of a lifetime being James Bond with very little previous experience, made a good movie, but then got too greedy and full of himself, making it all go to waste. Every other Bond actor had a previous or future career in acting, but not Lazenby.
Fun Fact: For On Her Majesty's Secret Service, George Lazenby suggested a scene where Bond skis off a cliff and opens a parachute. This was scrapped, as the filmmakers lacked the resources to pull it of, but it was later used as the opening for The Spy Who Loved Me.
“I just didn’t ask enough questions” - I really admire the accountability of the guy who hired her. Nowadays it would be some nonsense insincere press release like “Our department is disappointed at the mistake that was made, and we’re working out any areas in which we can improve to prevent this from happening again in the future”.
No matter how goofy this story is, the best thing about it is how someone in a (relative) position of power actually straight up said "yeah its my fault" That just doesnt happen too often
I came to Florida during hurricane Irma on vacation as one of the stop offs on a tour of USA. We was so lucky really because most of the resorts in Orlando and volcano bay etc weren’t busy at all. The parks were basically empty. I loved it
Learning ASL is very rewarding, if you work in a service job. you wont use it often, but on the odd occasion you need it, it really goes that extra mile to make someone's day. Just knowing the basics is huge. I went out of my way to learn conversation basics, and how to fingerspell so i can at the very least, hold a slow conversation if i dont know the words.
Is that what it's called? Fingerspelling? I memorized all the ABC's out of a picture in the dictionary when I was a kid, and it's crazy I can still remember all the letters except for f, g, p, and q. And I know I'm doing it right because I have carried on a few very slow conversations with some hearing impairment people over the years.
I like to believe she applied for every job she saw on indeed and when she got this one she was rushing to learn words and that's why she got some of them right
ASL interpreters go through so much training to be able to hear english and translate it into ASL’s completely different grammar structure. The fact that they expected a random guy to be able to do that is insane
I remember learning about a guy who faked his way into an airline pilot position, and was finally found out when someone he was flying with decided to make him land the plane and the guy just nosedived twice and almost killed them. This was a really long time ago though
In France, there was a guy who acted as the director of Limoge's airport (a french city) for a few months. He had zero qualifications to do so and actually did a pretty good job. People realised he wasn't who he pretended to as he was arrested for one of his previous frauds
The weirdest part is half of ASL is your facial expressions because it helps convey the emotion. The way she was signing made it seem like a casual conversation but attempting to talk about a major investigation. Wild
My friend is a chef in a pretty nice restaurant. My dude completely bullshitted his way in and winged it. He just luckily started small and now he does it better than most of the people there. He mainly tried his absolute hardest, because they paid him really well. You know, since he was actually a professional chef with a couple years of experience.
Kitchens are notorious for that, I know because I did it too lol a lot of times you can't get your foot in the door unless you flat out lie your ass off :/ I've been a chef for 20+ yrs but thanks to nepotism / hr recruitment practices/ age discrimination you almost HAVE to lie just to get an interview anywhere.
i'm not fluent in sign language by any means but one thing to check for when someone is faking sign language is how they sign the number three. in asl at least the number three is thumb, index, and middle finger whereas a lot of people assume it's index, middle, and ring
