Leider, versteh'ich nicht.

Another for the "you couldn't make it up" collection, and on a scale of 1 to 10, this has got to be an 11! A firm here in the Midlands has just landed a big contract with a German firm. So obviously they will be getting correspondence, 'phone calls and so on from Germany. Problem is, they haven't got anyone on the staff who speaks German. So they go down the Job Centre to put an advert in for someone who does. The Job Centre refuse the advert on the grounds that it would discriminate against non-German speakers! Just read that again, and yes, you read it right! What can I say??