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Nell2ThaIzzay, I worked a lot of years in retail and you remind me of the typical "I don't know, sir/ma'am, I just work here" kind of employee you see stereotyped on TV and movies. I live in a Spanish talking island and we DO have insular English speaking communities. People who go "OH, THANK GOD!" literally when I see the expression on their faces and ask them if they speak English did come by the store I worked in often. We're a retail chain so a lot of the higher ups the would fly in from the US only spoke English and I would
sometimes translate for one or two of my co-workers when they wanted to make sure they understood everything or had concerns they wanted to share; the rest of the time was a point of pride with most of them to be able to fend for themselves. I had even gotten customers that didn't speak either language and tried to reach an understanding anyway. Why? Because it was my job to keep the customer happy so that they would come and buy again. It was NOT my job to keep only the customers I thought were worthy and drive the others away.
You whine about being called a bigot or racist, I will call you neither. I will agree in your assessment that you ARE prejudiced though. When you start to write about people that don't speak English you immediately start judging them without knowing them. You immediately label them as people that have no value in society, as people that are lazy and not trying and other derogatory denominations. All of this from a group of people that
paid you, not stole from you, with
a one hundred dollar bill and laughed at your Spanish error. Of course, your sudden and spontaneous insight into the English language allowed you to understand why they were laughing and what they were saying was making fun of you.
Instead of going down on the other people, lead by example. If you're such hot $h!+,
learn a second language effectively and make yourself more useful. Instead of using and excuse, which is saying that it's catering to others, use it as marketing tool for yourself. Show us how you're striving to be a better part of the US community and be a bridge instead of being a leech employee doing the least he can and complaining about the people that actually make you work a little harder when they come into your store to BUY things with their hard earned MONEY.
