Posted on 05/06/2008 7:36:40 AM PDT by Technoman
'Don't speak Spanish…can't get the job?'
When San Bernardino High School teens Jazanique Jackson, Ashanae Brown and Kimyen Hawkins decided they wanted to work this summer, they left nothing to chance.
They knew the rules: plan ahead; role play; be positive; adapt; relate and encourage. So when they hit the streets to start their summer job search they were prepared for virtually every eventuality except one.
¿No habla ingles? Can't speak Spanish.
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Yup. When my daughter was 15 she was hired at the local McDonald’s specifically because she was the only employee who could speak good clear English, and the management thought it would be nice to have someone for English-speaking customers. But most of the clientele was Spanish and didn’t want to deal with her. She found the harassment, sexual and otherwise, from the Spanish too much to endure and left after about six months.
Because the liberal apparati have made it (stupidly) unnecessary to even learn enough English to order fast food. In the future, the anglos will be forced to learn Spanish lest we jeapordize their “culture”. Another nail in the coffin of the proud USA!
There aren't any 'activists' mentioned in the story.
It is not another attempt by activists as you say.
It is simply the true current state of affairs for many people in California, Florida and many other places. It's not just young black people who are affected but young black kids often have less options available to them.
If this was the McDonald's off Monterey Highway, they were well known for hiring kids of all colors. And at that time (pre 1986 amnesty), Morgan Hill had even more agricultural activity, the illegal aliens mostly working in the fields. Around twenty years ago, the service businesses in Morgan Hill abruptly replaced the kids with Latino immigrants with limited English skills. This happened so quick, it's almost as if the business community got together and decided to make the transition at once.
Yeah, there's a reason. It's called the University of California at Davis, one of the largest universities in the U.C. system. College students often work at these type of jobs, and you have to speak decent English to be a student there.
You have to speak English to get into UCD???
THAT’S RACIST!!!!
Yes, Terry Anderson, the only talk show host that speaks the truth on illegal immigration.
While bilingual skills are a good thing, it is NOT good when all the employees speak only Spanish in an English speaking country. I've encountered that problem at a McDonald's in Greenwood Village (south of Denver). English speaking customers were reduced to pointing at a pictorial menu on the ordering counter and holding up fingers for the number wanted. Substitutions? Too bad. No accommodation for that.
It happens everyday. It happened to my son. He solved the problem by learning Spanish. What "tone" did you have in mind?
Why bother when everyone, including the government, is catering to your laziness in not learning English?
That's pretty cool. I think I'll apply for one of these "bilingual preferred" jobs and tell them I'm bilingual, which is the truth. They'll be surprised a couple of days later when they find out I don't speak any Spanish.
Rick Roberts had a popular afternoon talk show on KOGO many years ago. One afternoon he stopped by a donut shop to get some donuts for himself and his staff. The gal at the counter spoke fluent Chinese...and no English. After 20 minutes of frustration trying to select a dozen donuts, he left empty handed. It was just too hard to communicate. It was a hilarious afternoon rant, but reflective of problems that English speaking Americans encounter everyday.
Was this in like a heavily-Chinese area of town? If not, then why the hell did they hire her?
...and this comes as a surprise to who?
Mexifornication!
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This is America. There should be no reason for anyone denied a job for speaking only English.
I’ve never heard a better reason for English being our one and only official language.
I was at Carls Jr. in Reseda, Ca. trying to find out if you can drink their new shakes with a straw or do you need a spoon. The employee gave up trying to communicate with me and went to get the stupervisor. The two guys standing behind me got a kick out of this and one of them told me that he had applied for a job there and was told that since he didn’t speak Spanish he couldn’t get a job.
Great idea! I'll do it with German next time that happens to me.
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