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Trevor Gulliver, Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 05:39 AM

Steven Tindall wrote: I have to agree with charlie and lastknight. I think in the workplace that a set language is mandatory. I was in the navy and they put the phillipino,mexican and other non english speaking people in a hot box situation by basically finding something wrong,real or imagined, with their uniform and then have 2 or 3 higher ranking officers or what have you yell,scream,insult and basically mentally break them down, all the while bombarding them with questions thay are expected and required to answer and IF they revert to their native language then they are sent back for remedial english lessons. The reason is simple in a deadly situation where time is of the essence if your comunicating need-to-know-information and the person on the other end cant understand the words your saying then you could die and cost the lives of other people because of misinformation. It may sound extreme but when your dealing with fire on board a ship with 3 thousand people there is NO room for errors. We have had to push burning aircraft off the ship into the atlantic to stop them from damaging the ship,other craft or other people. Can you imagine the horror if in a situation like that your telling the guy behind the wheel to steer left and he's so scared or out of it becasue "OMG this is real" he doesnt get it and the aircraft explodes,jet fuel and all. I personally have seen a first class petty officer with over 17yrs in get so upset dressing down a second class that she reverted to spanish. She was just going off windmilling her arms screaming at the guy in a language non of us could understand and then when he politely asked her to please speak english because he didnt understand she took it as a racist remark and had him up on charges. They were dismissed by the Captain but still the fact that she tried was enough. I'm all for "LEGAL!!!" imigration into this country but I do believe that the policy of the armed forces of all buisness is to be conducted in ENGLISH should apply to all federal,state and local governments. This is interesting. Really. But ... he was banning employees from speaking Spanish in his presence because he was afraid they might be talking about him. He wasn't testing their ability to speak English under fire.

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