Banning employees from speaking Spanish

[gollygee]

Apparently this is a thing. Also, they have to have their breaks and meals in a closet where garbage is kept.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12u1VqwsijCOQcXsUZSPmnJJYbiukowvg59LU_xfQVco/viewform

Dining Workers orientation: August, 2014 - Vicki Dunn, executive director of Columbia Dining
prohibits workers from:

– speaking in Spanish in the presence of students

– sitting at tables in Butler lounge to eat on their break, and must eat in a nearby closet

Dunn claimed both of these rules stemmed from student complaints about dining hall workers speaking in Spanish and taking up table space, erroneously implying that workers should not be sitting during their legally contracted breaks.

[madaboutharry]

1. Why is it that people

With the poorest management skills end up in charge of things?

[TexasProgresive]

2. It's the "Peter Principle""

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
The Peter Principle is a concept in management theory in which the selection of a candidate for a position is based on the candidate's performance in their current role rather than on abilities relevant to the intended role. Thus, employees only stop being promoted once they can no longer perform effectively, and "managers rise to the level of their incompetence."

[Shrike47]

3. Why would students complain that cafeteria workers were speaking Spanish to one another?

Frankly, I doubt it occurred, either the conversation or the complaint. This sounds to me like a manager who is a control freak. Eating in a closet? Sounds like lawsuit material.

[SheilaT]

4. If it weren't for those Spanish speakers

they wouldn't even have anyone to work for them, I suspect.