Halibut Posted July 3, 2016 Share Posted July 3, 2016 A stupid decision which unfairly discriminates against European staff whilst pandering to the ignorance and paranoia of the natives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakeypoos Posted July 3, 2016 Share Posted July 3, 2016 It is essential in the workplace that people speak the same language for many reasons, so that people don't think others are talking about them behind their back to ease cohesion and also that people understand what Country they are in and its also polite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_bloke Posted July 3, 2016 Share Posted July 3, 2016 A stupid decision which unfairly discriminates against European staff whilst pandering to the ignorance and paranoia of the natives. I'm sure you'd feel the same if you went to a different country to work and were required to speak the local language. You'd think it was discriminatory and pandered to the ignorance of the host country right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 3, 2016 Share Posted July 3, 2016 I have no problem with that. I never speak croatian in front of english people, for obvious reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Joker Posted July 3, 2016 Share Posted July 3, 2016 I have no problem with that. I never speak croatian in front of english people, for obvious reason. That's good to know. When we start kicking out the foreigners, we'll be sorry to see you go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyofborg Posted July 3, 2016 Share Posted July 3, 2016 I have no problem with that. I never speak croatian in front of english people, for obvious reason. i wouldn't worry, many english people i come across struggle to understand english Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runningman1 Posted July 3, 2016 Share Posted July 3, 2016 A stupid decision which unfairly discriminates against European staff whilst pandering to the ignorance and paranoia of the natives. As usual, a considered and reasoned input from the fish guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I1L2T3 Posted July 3, 2016 Share Posted July 3, 2016 A stupid decision which unfairly discriminates against European staff whilst pandering to the ignorance and paranoia of the natives. I'm not so sure. About ten years ago part of my job was to lead a couple of dozen Indian software engineers who had been visa scammed into the UK by a major company. On paper their qualifications and experience looked good and their CVs stated they spoke fluent English too. For three quarters of them it wasn't true. They had poor skills and poor English. They spent a lot of their time talking in their own languages and as we found out using that to cover up for the inadequacies of their skills too, kind of helping each other through it. They could not communicate with our customers and in fact angered our customers because of this on many occasions. We sent 19 of them back to India as soon as we could despite HQ in the US demanding we make the new staffing solution work. The point is that the office environment became quite poisonous and divisive. It simply didn't work. It was bad for the UK workers and bad for the Indians too. We were starting to put our contracts at risk. It would have been better for everyone if they could have spoke good English and incredibly out of a pool of millions of Indians with excellent English we somehow selected 19 complete duffers. There is no shortage of people who can speak good English so why employ ones who can't? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyofborg Posted July 3, 2016 Share Posted July 3, 2016 There is no shortage of people who can speak good English so why employ ones who can't? presumably they were less expensive to employ that people who can speak good english. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I1L2T3 Posted July 3, 2016 Share Posted July 3, 2016 presumably they were less expensive to employ that people who can speak good english. Kind of but not quite. The pool they will have been selected from had plenty of good English speakers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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