cross-posted from: https://linux.community/post/3497784

Example: several of my former coworkers are from Mexico, Peru and Argentina, meaning they share Spanish as a common language.

I used to practice Spanish with them, but my last charge (like a ward’s manager) would yell at us to stop it, use English only. She would get very angry really fast if she heard anything in a language she didn’t understand.

I find it stupid, because some of them would use Spanish to better explain to the new nurses how to do certain procedures, but maybe I’m missing something?

  • T00l_shed@lemmy.world
    63·
    2 days ago

    And I am directly replying to you saying there is context and I specifically said not always

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
      21·
      2 days ago

      It is always negative in the case of the user’s context with the information we have. You implied an entirely different situation, meaning it’s an entirely different question.

      • T00l_shed@lemmy.world
        73·
        2 days ago

        It’s not an entirely different question. This is how conversations work on message boards. You say something in response to the post, and people add to the conversation. In this particular situation with the OP it could be racism, it could be dissuading people from talking about unions, quite simply all you’re doing is guessing, because you don’t have the entire story. I added that there could be more, not flat out denying what you said, saying there is context that could be the reason for situations such as this.

        • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
          22·
          2 days ago

          The context in the OP outright states anger at any use of spanish, period. This has nothing to do with “politeness,” and is always some form of racism or worker control. If OP had stated that this was only the case when said charge was involved in the conversations and felt left out, then this is a different context from the one OP provided.

          You came in here trying to invent a situation that is, at its fundamentals, unique from what OP described.

          • T00l_shed@lemmy.world
            33·
            2 days ago

            Yes as i said above this is how message boards work, you say something and people add to it, hence the not always i didn’t “invent” a situation, I was talking about other situations, there is more than just this example that happens you know. Conversations are supposed to evolve

            • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
              22·
              2 days ago

              You didn’t add, though. By just saying “it depends on the context” without providing the alternative situation you were talking about, it implies that the OP’s situation may be fine with different context. Now you’re acting demeaning and pretending I must not understand how message boards work.

              Here’s an example of what you could have done:

              I agree that in this case it’s probably due to racism or to prevent unionization, but there are good reasons to speak a common language at work, such as if the OP’s charge was being shut out of conversations they were involved with.

              This makes it clear that you’re talking about a different context, and prevents this entire back and forth.