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In my field (medical) was dealing with a domestic situation. Now I used to be law enforcement & military so it takes a *lot* to intimidate me. As in I've stood on the side of a highway helping a friend with his traffic flagging company & had 6+ ton trucks whip by close enough to touch without flinching.

Anyway this guy was obviously used to abusing women. He tried to stare down/intimidate the front desk girls & the woman he was with had obviously long since learnt best to keep her head down.

When it came to me because I would not break eye contact, etc. or show any signs of fear/anxiety, etc. he started going on I was bothering him, etc. It was very obviously making him uncomfortable. Now trust me I can handle myself & had he tried something he'd have been on the floor by the time he could say shit. If I didn't break his nose first. Depends on what he tried.

But it just was a very heavy reminder that women (and child) abusers are nothing more than spineless cowards.

If I were enrolling at a program, wanted a medical plan and it required selecting the correct coverage, knowing my rights and responsibilities, no I wouldn't trust a phone interpreter.

Base on my cousin and friend's experience as a phone interpreter:
Sometimes the client would download extended scripts and read the whole disclosure fast just to get it over with, not giving them enough time to translate the whole message. Those clients didn't give a damn if you couldn't translate it all and just wanted the native speaker to already enroll in the program and charge them.
If the native speaker wanted a clarification from one of those long, endless terms and conditions to know what they were signing for, the client wouldn't explain it but kept reading the same thing again... and my cousin had to repeat it all.