La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for June 17, 2013
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Bug Blog by Cuco Rocha Whole Fools An Albuquerque, New Mexico Whole Foods store allegedly suspended two Latino employees for speaking Spanish to each other. Will Whole Foods be consistent and also suspend sales of tortillas, salsa and gluten-free jalapeno cilantro hummus?
I live in the LA area, and people talk in foreign languages all the time. I love hearing it—when they are on personal time, when they are helping a customer, if they are doing work which does not require interaction with English speakers, when the business is an ethnic business such as a restaurant, or when it only requires very limited instructions to a limited English-speaking employee.
I find it to be inappropriate, however, when most of the clientele are English speaking, for employees to carry on conversations in another language.