Evilpete
08-09-2004, 09:38 AM
This doesn't just happen in my neighborhood, I'm sure it happens around the country and I think this is a big issue not looked at. If this shouldn't be in this forum, my bad:
I live in the Elmhurst/Jackson Heights area of Queens. I've lived here for 20 of my 25 years alive (5 years I was a school in Pa and spent a year wroking in PA). I applied for a job in a local videogames store not too far from my house, and when I went for the interview, they asked if I spoke Spanish. I said no, and that I never really had to speak Spanish in the entire time I've lived in this neighborhood. He told me I would have gotten the job but he can't offer it to me because I only spoke English. After he said this I told him why he has this requirement since I don't think it's right to have such a requirement. He said that although many of the customers do speak English, they are more comfortable speaking Spanish and they must comply. I told him that I feel that this is a racist and descriminatory practice and stormed out.
Now, I ask this; Why is this allowed? If I was to open up a store in a predominatly White neighborhood and required all Spanish-speaking emplyees to speak English, I would be boycotted and have a complete shitstorm around me for having the same policy as this store had that made me not get the job
yeah I know the world is not fair, and I'm bitching over nothing probably, but I see this done at most, if not, all businesses in my neighborhood and I feel that it should be considered illegal
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I live in the Elmhurst/Jackson Heights area of Queens. I've lived here for 20 of my 25 years alive (5 years I was a school in Pa and spent a year wroking in PA). I applied for a job in a local videogames store not too far from my house, and when I went for the interview, they asked if I spoke Spanish. I said no, and that I never really had to speak Spanish in the entire time I've lived in this neighborhood. He told me I would have gotten the job but he can't offer it to me because I only spoke English. After he said this I told him why he has this requirement since I don't think it's right to have such a requirement. He said that although many of the customers do speak English, they are more comfortable speaking Spanish and they must comply. I told him that I feel that this is a racist and descriminatory practice and stormed out.
Now, I ask this; Why is this allowed? If I was to open up a store in a predominatly White neighborhood and required all Spanish-speaking emplyees to speak English, I would be boycotted and have a complete shitstorm around me for having the same policy as this store had that made me not get the job
yeah I know the world is not fair, and I'm bitching over nothing probably, but I see this done at most, if not, all businesses in my neighborhood and I feel that it should be considered illegal
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