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Filipino staff sue hospital over English-only rule. They say they were the only group targeted. STers, do you mind people speaking other languages

Posted by loosilu (aka loosilu2) Dec 8 '10, 07:49

at your work?

I would say generally not, although I think it would bother me if it was a group of people I worked closely with. I think i would make an effort to learn a little of the language in that case. And I hope people would try to minimize having entire conversations that I can't understand, while I'm right there. that's kind of rude.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101207/ap_on_bi_ge/ca_filipino_nurses_discrimination;_ylt=Aupa9rX1_7QzxZHp0HsDVQoDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTM2dm42cGJoBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAxMjA3L2NhX2ZpbGlwaW5vX251cnNlc19kaXNjcmltaW5hdGlvbgRwb3MDNARzZWMDeW5fYXJ0aWNsZV9zdW1tYXJ5X2xpc3QEc2xrA2Z1bGxuYnNwc3Rvcg-- (news.yahoo.com)

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We have a few Russian programmers who lapse into Russian on occasion... - Mel Profit Dec 8, 08:00 2
- truthfully, a small fraction of the time they are probably being secretive. - loosilu Dec 8, 08:03 1
  - Of this I am sure. -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 8, 08:07
i don't care at all what language people speak at my work.... - x Dec 8, 07:56 1
- my dentists and their staff speak spanish all around me. I kind of like it. distracts me from the procedure. -- nm - loosilu Dec 8, 07:58
I could see if being good in a hospital so that people don't get all paranoid over personal health information. -- nm - sycor Dec 8, 07:52 2
- hmmm, that would not have occurred to me (as a patient). -- nm - loosilu Dec 8, 07:53 1
  - people are the center of their universe. people always think someone speaking in another language is talking about them. -- nm - sycor Dec 8, 07:57
"English only at the table, no Russian." -- nm - Strongbad Dec 8, 07:50

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