https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Whole-Foods/m-p/332844#M140532 <P>I guess this company had a policy of asking its employees to speak ENGLISH while on the clock. How rude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</P> <P>Then they got a whole lot of complaining by agitators, so they back down. The article I read was very confusing (Huffington Post) though.</P> <P>I once worked in a hospital in a predominantly Polish immigrant area. They made a policy that employees must speak English, unless there was a patient who only spoke Polish. This was because other employees felt extremely uncomfortable when a foreign language was spoken in their presence. It does make one feel like you are being talked about, and does exclude you.</P> <P>How rude that a business wants to conduct its BUSINESS in English.</P> <P>Hyacinth</P> Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:12:52 GMT hyacinth003 2013-06-15T17:12:52Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Whole-Foods/m-p/332844#M140532 <P>I guess this company had a policy of asking its employees to speak ENGLISH while on the clock. How rude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</P> <P>Then they got a whole lot of complaining by agitators, so they back down. The article I read was very confusing (Huffington Post) though.</P> <P>I once worked in a hospital in a predominantly Polish immigrant area. They made a policy that employees must speak English, unless there was a patient who only spoke Polish. This was because other employees felt extremely uncomfortable when a foreign language was spoken in their presence. It does make one feel like you are being talked about, and does exclude you.</P> <P>How rude that a business wants to conduct its BUSINESS in English.</P> <P>Hyacinth</P> Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:12:52 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Whole-Foods/m-p/332844#M140532 hyacinth003 2013-06-15T17:12:52Z