Thread: Hispanic Workers Sue For Not Being Allowed to Speak Spanish

“What’s so wrong with the Hispanic culture and language that you can’t tolerate it in the workplace?â€

How about US being able to sue to be able to speak OUR language 24-7 and not have to speak a foreign language on the job to obnoxious immigrants living in our own nation who refuse to do as we do??????? I hope there's a huge public backlash against them....

I remember as a child in a Polish neighborhood none of us were permitted to speak Polish, even in the home, and most of us never learned.

Waiter: What's your new ISP? I'm contemplating a switch.

Waiter: What's your new ISP? I'm contemplating a switch.[/quote]

Yes waiter!! Please share! Thank you

Ummm

If it is ok to say I got verizon fios.

I was on a cable isp and just hated the dropoff due to activity on the hub.

Fios is always there and always the same.

I run a Sling-box and it can be a bit of a bandwidth hog.

Funny how times have changed.

My mother and both grandparents were German. I remember as a child walking into a room and my mother and grandmother were conversing in German. As soon as I appeared they would proceed to speak in English. I asked my grandmother if they were talking about me. My grandmothers reply was "no dear, it is rude and impolite to speak German in front of people who can't understand us, it makes them uncomfortable". I look back and wonder if that attitude was a cultural thing, or a level of intelligence.

Originally Posted by Waiter

Ummm

If it is ok to say I got verizon fios.

I was on a cable isp and just hated the dropoff due to activity on the hub.

Fios is always there and always the same.

I run a Sling-box and it can be a bit of a bandwidth hog.

I as well have FIOS. Never have a call to them that is outsourced anymore.

Originally Posted by escalade

Funny how times have changed.

My mother and both grandparents were German. I remember as a child walking into a room and my mother and grandmother were conversing in German. As soon as I appeared they would proceed to speak in English. I asked my grandmother if they were talking about me. My grandmothers reply was "no dear, it is rude and impolite to speak German in front of people who can't understand us, it makes them uncomfortable". I look back and wonder if that attitude was a cultural thing, or a level of intelligence.

The same in my household escalade. It's both the level of intelligence and good manners, something today's missing from today's "gimme gimme" culture of greed.

I had a co-worker who I shared a cubicle with. She spoke perfiect English until another Hispanic came by and then she only spoke Spanish. I told her I found it rude. She shrugged me off. I went to Human Resources where the Manager started to say she had the right to speak Spanish. But when I said it was making me very uncomfortable and I got other coworkers to also say they felt it was rude and made them uncomfortable and I brought up it was causing a hostile work enviroment, she was told to speak English. Out numbered she did what she was told.

It should be standard policy especially in a workplace that ONE language (ENGLISH) be spoken so that no information is lost, no instruction misunderstood, and that all directives understood by EVERYONE.