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Originally Posted by blktoptrvl
If you read the article you will see that the issue is not about employees communicating with customers in spanish.
It is about the school (or store) wanting employees to speak in english no matter what they are doing - if they are near a customer.
So, if they are just walking with a friend talking about last night's baseball game, for some reason, they are now required to do that in english.
Kinda stupid if you ask me. Who cares what language they are speaking to each other in?
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I understand that they want the employees to speak english in areas where customers may be present and I don't have a problem with that at all. If employees talk to each other in a language other than english, it may make some paying customers uncomfortable. Especially if the customers aren't fluent in that particular language. It may turn some people off from visiting that establishment or using that companies services.
For example, I felt a little uncomfortable when the guys doing a plumbing job at my house talked to each other strictly in Russian, but were both able to speak english. They could have been talking about the job or anything else and I had absolutely no clue.
I personally feel that in a professional environment, it is not asking too much if an employer wants his or her employees to use the national language.