oc_civic said:
employers should be able to hire whoever they want.. i mean.. just take a chinese resturant for example.. just think of how ridiculous it would be to be seated by an idnian girl... having your order taken by an irish guy... while some random mexican guy cooks your general chicken... all the while the black manger checks in on you to see if your meal is good.. i mean who cares.. you own the resturant.. you hire who you want.. you want to hire all tai people at your tai resturant? sounds fine to me...
When was the last time you only saw Italians working at a pizza joint?
i don't really see it as rediculous as long as the cook can cook what he claims.
si-hatch86 said:
it would seem wierd to go to a mexican restraunt and have some random white guy taking ur order that cant even understand wat ur ordering bc u order in spanish. same goes as if u were to go into some burger place and want a burger but some mexican guy that cant speak english can barely take ur order right bc he dont understand wat ur saying... i mean if they are qualified then ok, but if they arent qualified why are u gonna have them there, when you could have someone that could do the job alot better and is properly qualified.
Most resturants in the US.... no matter what the cuisine... allow you to order in English. The ones that run into problems in my experience are generally asian cuisine restuarants, and they often have their menu mixed with numbers for each meal too.
Qualified is qualified. Hell, the Mexican place I like in Dover, DE is owned by a Mexican family and generally they only employ their relatives... many only speak Spanish... but they learn at least someEnglish in order to be able to serve their patrons.
Actually... now that I think of it, there is a girl in there with kind of auburn hair and a pale complexion. She looks Irish, with faint freckles. guess what language she speaks? Spanish. She undestands very little English but she still managed to bring our food (she was new, so I assume she hadn't picked up as much as some of the other waitressees and waiters had).
Of course many family owned and operated establishments are going to have peopel working there that speak their native language.
Tom said:
why, cause to not hire someone based on their comprehension of a language could turn into a discrimination law suit pretty quick in this day and age, sad but true, not the employers total fault, but they normally want someone with knowledge of a language of the majority of what their customers are, english or spanish, normally someone who can speak better spanish and little english has a better chance of getting a job at a fast food joint then someone who can only speak english.
But for someone who can't speak English at all in an average job in the US... if they don't hire it's unlikely they'll be able to successfully sue. Why? Because they can't properly serve the customers (assuming this is a customer service style position). Being bilinguals, especially with common languages used in that area are always a plus for the employer though.
si-hatch86 said:
thats why i said that.. alot of mexicans or spanish speaking ppl will go to a mexican restruant and there for its not the brightest to hire someone that can speak a ounce of spanish. or more so than anything like you said its pointless for a business to hire some one that isnt qualified just because the state wants them to.
Nah, speaking Spanish isn't reakky a requirement for a Mexican food restaurant in the US.
If like I said it's family owned and operated though, and maybe they brng in someone unrelated to the family who only speaks English... then yeah, we might have some probnlems if the staff in the kitchen can only speak Spanish.
Akiahara96 said:
panda express orange chicken ftmfw!
it is a fast food type thing. think mall food court chinese. it's that sorta thing. and they usually seem busy enough where their stuff doesn't get super old, but it's kept hot by the water underneath it.
and here, they're all asian people.
i say happy holidays, because some people still treat christmas like the religious holiday it's actually supposed to be... and well, i'm not christian.
if i said happy yule to you, you might not appreciate it.
Generally speaking though... if I say "Merry Christmas", "Happy Holidays", "Bless you", or "Have a blessed day," to someone or if they say it to me... I know it's only good intentions (well, generally speaking again... rare that someonbe would say it spitefully to me).
Then again, celebrating the Christmas Spirit to me doesn't just come acorss as "Celebrating Jesus' Birthday." Sure... maybe it "started" like that, but it means more, less, or something entirely differnt to peopel now depending on who you talk to.