http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_trouble_in_taos
What a loser. Why not just learn Spanish? If you know you have a primarily Spanish-speaking staff, learn enough Spanish to understand that in a passing conversation they may be talking about picking up their daughter Concepcion from band practice or their mother-in-law visiting from Guadalajara or something equally mundane.
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Hotel owner tells Hispanic workers to change names
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Vicki, the owner should not have to learn spanish and his staff should know how to speak english!!!I feel it is perfectly fine for him to insist they speak english (official language of the US) to him and in front of the guest. That said, when they are speaking with each other and away from the hotel guest it is THEIR choice what language they use and he can get therepy for his paranoia. I'm not sure it's even worth addressing about the name change!! That request is obsurd!
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Agree, 2B---the majority of my students speak Spanish at home. However, when they're in my classroom, I expect them to speak English. Like I told them, although I speak some Spanish, it isn't enough to always know what you're saying. If their English were more limited, they wouldn't be in my class anyway. A couple of them complained and said I was racist---I then explained to them that if I went to their home after school, I wouldn't dream of making their parents speak English. When they're in 'my home' (my classroom) they need to speak English.
Posted 4 months ago by FondaHonda #
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Just one point of clarification, the US doesn't have an official language. That said, I agree that anyone dealing with customers/clients/guests/employers who speak English should have to learn English, and it is *not* the owner's responsibility to learn Spanish. The name change thing is ridiculous, but he does not need to learn Spanish.
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Actually, my point on him learning Spanish was so he could feel like a total @$$ when he overhears silly conversations his Spanish-speaking employees are having with each other (instead of him thinking that everyone's talking about him), such as whose turn is it to pick up groceries, for example. Yes, his employees need to speak English when around English-speaking guests, but would it kill him to try to gain rapport with his Spanish-speaking employees by at least trying to learn some Spanish?
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*waves at Tigger again*
Vicki, I see what you mean about the owner learning spanish, but that would take him having the insentive to want a good relationship with his employees and it's obvious that doesn't matter to him at all. I don't think I would want him overhearing mt conversation anyway!LOL
The issue of him terminating employees for refussing to change their names, well...I don't know who this man thinks he is, but my parents (when I was young) and myself are the only ones with the right to change my name.
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