How Do You Interview Them?
Uhh…
Now House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has moved to kill an amendment that would protect employers from federal lawsuits for requiring their workers to speak English. Among the employers targeted by such lawsuits: the Salvation Army.
Sen. Lamar Alexander, a moderate Republican from Tennessee, is dumbstruck that legislation he views as simple common sense would be blocked. He noted that the full Senate passed his amendment to shield the Salvation Army by 75-19 last month, and the House followed suit with a 218-186 vote just this month.
I mean, if you can’t interview for a job because you can’t speak English, how do you know if you’re not working at that job because of the language or because of you? So if I were a Spanish speaker, couldn’t I sue W Magazine for not giving me a monthly column? I think I need to learn Spanish, and quick.
November 20th, 2007 at 12:39 am
ninme,
I think it would have to be both: if you turn up for an interview knowing you don’t speak the language, one has to ask whether or not you have the intelligence to make any trickier decisions…
November 20th, 2007 at 5:35 am
¿Porque no traduces este blog en español? ¡Voy a demandar!
November 20th, 2007 at 9:53 am
Uh oh, I think RC2 has a sympathetic speech from Nancy Pelosi on the floor of the House about her in her future.
But why bother turn up for the interview? You know it won’t work since neither on can communicate, so you can just file the lawsuit ahead of time. From the comfort of your home. It’s perfect.
November 21st, 2007 at 3:23 am
Interviews are an artificial construct of Neo-European Imperialism as perfected by the United States power establishment, designed solely maintain the unnatural power of white Euro-males in a land stolen from Native Americans with different language skills.
/I now ridez around Jericho in my Triumph.
November 22nd, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Yawlz must be must stunned at my erridutery.