by Jack Lee
Did you hear that an applicant for a bikini clad barmaid job at a New York City eatery says managers all discriminated against her because they said they couldn’t understand her due to her heavy “Latin accent.” She had applied repeatedly and been turned down repeatedly, even though others got hired.
Her lawyer says it’s 100% illegal for the restaurant to refuse to hire her over her accent!
Her lawsuit says one manager told her that her “Latin accent” would ruin his business. What do you want to bet what was really said was closer to this: “If customers can’t understand you it would not be good for business”.
Don’t you think that people in America should speak English well enough to be understood when it is essential to customers getting their orders right? This is a matter of competence, not racial discrimination.