Maybe so, but this kinda stuff still gets to me, and it's personal.
When my mom was diagnosed with cancer, I had no choice but to give up my technology job, as I traveled the southeast. She was care-giver to my step-dad who suffered a stroke, so I have to care for both until she is done with chemo and recovers. So, anyway, I move from Ga. to Fla. & apply for a technology position with the local school district. I AM THE LONE MCSE up for a network tech. position, and did not get it, as the position required a bilingual who spoke spanish. Here I lose out to a less qualified candidate, in my own country, because I can't speak spanish. Why in the hell does a computer network technician, in a school district in the U.S. have to speak spanish? So now, I'm trying to make ends meet, making about $40,000 less a year as an asst. golf pro, because I don't have to speak spanish to teach golf. Just have about a 3handicap!
Anyway, that's my rant for the day...
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Maybe so, but this kinda stuff still gets to me, and it's personal.
When my mom was diagnosed with cancer, I had no choice but to give up my technology job, as I traveled the southeast. She was care-giver to my step-dad who suffered a stroke, so I have to care for both until she is done with chemo and recovers. So, anyway, I move from Ga. to Fla. & apply for a technology position with the local school district. I AM THE LONE MCSE up for a network tech. position, and did not get it, as the position required a bilingual who spoke spanish. Here I lose out to a less qualified candidate, in my own country, because I can't speak spanish. Why in the hell does a computer network technician, in a school district in the U.S. have to speak spanish? So now, I'm trying to make ends meet, making about $40,000 less a year as an asst. golf pro, because I don't have to speak spanish to teach golf. Just have about a 3handicap!
Anyway, that's my rant for the day...
That sucks.
As for the advertisement, somebody just want to sell cars to people who speak spanish, I guess.....
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RE: WTF?????????? Spanish AD?????????
Well, don't even think about moving to Texas for any other job than maybe a burger flipper or a security guard. At least half of the jobs in the San Antonio newspaper either require bilingual or say it is highly preferred/desired. The last time I had a "white" supervisor was when I worked in North Carolina at an electronics company.....I'm learning spanish by shopping for groceries.......many of the labels are bilingual
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Hey don't try moving here to the New Orleans area. Since the hurricane everything is turning bilingual. And in some places you can't find anyone to help you that you can understand. If you try to go to Mexico for instance you better speak the language, because they won't even try to translate.
Maybe so, but this kinda stuff still gets to me, and it's personal.
When my mom was diagnosed with cancer, I had no choice but to give up my technology job, as I traveled the southeast. She was care-giver to my step-dad who suffered a stroke, so I have to care for both until she is done with chemo and recovers. So, anyway, I move from Ga. to Fla. & apply for a technology position with the local school district. I AM THE LONE MCSE up for a network tech. position, and did not get it, as the position required a bilingual who spoke spanish. Here I lose out to a less qualified candidate, in my own country, because I can't speak spanish. Why in the hell does a computer network technician, in a school district in the U.S. have to speak spanish? So now, I'm trying to make ends meet, making about $40,000 less a year as an asst. golf pro, because I don't have to speak spanish to teach golf. Just have about a 3handicap!
Anyway, that's my rant for the day...
Man that sucks, needing to be bilingual for a job? that's total BS
Yeah, but some don't even speak English as a second language. I guess it just as frustrating for them. We have 2 guys at our office, from Honduras, and they both speak English, but the service manager has a thick accent. He was on the phone with one of our customers and I was at the customers office too. When the conversation was over the customer handed the phone to me because they did not understand everything that was said.The customer wanted me to find out what he said. I told the customer to ask him who taught him to speak english,he said that ED did. So now the customeraskedme if that's true,I said yeah but I don't speakspanish, He knows how to have fun with it.
WTF?????????? Spanish AD?????????
