Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

Wait staff doesn't need to know how to cook. I was talking about kitchen staff. And if the cooks aren't literate in English the waitstaff does need to know how to write in whatever language is needed.

B. S. Many foreign or immigrant owned businesses in America prefer native English speakers in customer facing roles.

Paged!!!!

Then maybe your life experience is different from mine. I used to work in a network of first gen immigrant business owners, literally every one has a strong preference on employee from the same cultural background. If they need a good English speaker, they hire someone from their background that can speak English well. It's not hard to find a non-white immigrant that speaks multiple languages fluently in a multicultural city.

Most customer facing roles don't need "native" English speaking skills, just "professionally functional" English skills. A Chinese or Japanese employee that move to NA when they are 12-18 can speak English professionally just fine, and they still have some cultural understanding of co-workers/customers from the same background. Seems like an easy choice for people with a background preference.

I agree with this. Most immigrant-run businesses seem to be mono-ethnic in my area.

I don't think it's a bad thing, either. Employers should be permitted to selectively hire so that they can work with people they are most compatible with. I'd just prefer for my own people to have that same right.

"The First Berserker: Khazan" looks promising. I hope it's gonna be in 2025 what Lies of P was for me in 2023.

You can't write sign language. It's only being a visual communication. I don't like forcing them to learn. If they want to, they can ask me anything.

However, every order gets printed out in the kitchen for the cooks to read. They do need to understand the basic language.

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Avatar: The Way of Water is a good example. You can use sign language to talk while you're in the water. I understood a bit of their alien sign language. I think James Cameron did a good job.