Hotel Owner Charged With Racism Toward Employees

You had me right up to that last part. It's his hotel. He has every right to speak whatever language he wants and ask his employees to speak to him in that language.

Asking them not to speak Spanish in front of him, however, is a bit much. Anglicizing their names is flat-out racist.

 

El jefe es un pendejo.

 

Sounds like a real winner, this guy.

I can't help but think this could've all been avoided with some due diligence and advance intel. Assuming your way will always work, regardless of circumstances, is a recipe for failure.

 

Works better if you know what a pendejo is (I had to look it up).

 

If he didn't want his employees to speak Spanish, why did he buy a hotel in a town where the majority of the people are Hispanic?

If he wants all his employees to speak English, then find employees whose mother tongue is English. Then the problem's solved. Or, as I said, learn Spanish. Pretty easy damn language to learn.

That's like me buying a hotel in Quebec and forbidding my staff to speak French.

 

Pingita would work just as well, I think.

 

It's not exactly the same JR......Canada has 2 official languages.

In order for him to legally fire the workers that can't speak english, he'd have to post the job openings saying "English speaking required", interview his current staff and then let them go.

 

Agreed.

 

Somebody should've hit him in the head with a tamale. Then played the race card.

 

Ashy, yeah, but the Official Languages Act only applies to federal government services, the courts, federal publications ,etc.

My point is: you'd be out of your poutine-eating mind if you opened a business in Quebec, parts of Northern Ontario and New Brunswick and forced your staff to speak English only.

I think that's a fair comparable.

 

I thought Quebec had a ton of laws about speaking French and letting people speak French and the legality of kicking people who don't speak French?

 

Yeah. I got cursed at for not speaking French. When cursed the salesperson back and said I was American, the tone was completely different. The take that French shit seriously in Quebec.