Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Only Spanish speakers should apply

PUBLIC SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE 4
(Benefit Consultant - Bilingual, Spanish)

$2,258 - $3,121 MONTHLY
(This salary includes a 5% bilingual differential.)

This position is with the Workers' Compensation Division, Compliance Section, Benefit Consultation Unit, of the Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS), and is located in Salem.

As you know from my previous post, the DCBS doesn't want to know if illegal aliens are getting wokers comp benefits.

"The Board supported the general policy that our employees not seek out or report immigration status of any parties who come before this agency."

But the bigger problem for me is that we need benefits workers who speak Spanish. How does a worker get by at a job if they speak no English? Could someone who doesn't speak English function as your co-worker? No.

But some jobs have become Spanish-speaking only positions. If anything is keeping Americans from doing certain jobs that illegal aliens do then it is this. Just as someone who speaks no English couldn't function working with people who don't speak Spanish, an English speaker couldn't work at a construction job site where his co-workers don't speak the same language.

Why would you bother applying to work in agriculture if you have a different culture and language than everyone else? How could you possibly work in a restraunt kitchen if you can't even communicate with the other cooks?

Farmers, contractors and restraunt owners need to stop saying that they can't find American workers if the current majority of their workforce is Spanish speaking.

6 comments:

Robin said...

in addition, by including a 5% bilingual differential are they saying that Spanish is better than English? Isn't that discrimination by paying somebody 5% more just because they happen to know Spanish.

Are they saying that the American people are not worth anything?

Is it going to take another civil war to get our country back?

I for one do not want to know how to speak Spanish, and I resent the fact that for me to get a job that it may become a requirement is just wrong!

Anonymous said...

Pienso que todo el esto prueba apenas cómo racista usted todo es. , los inmigrantes legales a los E.E.U.U., somos una fuerza cada vez mayor. Hablamos español y tan sí, los servicios de gobierno deben arquear a nosotros y darnos el diferencial. ¡Desea México vivo!

Anonymous said...

Daniel,

I demand that you translate your posts into Spanish because my grandmother came here from Mexico and you are violating something. I am not sure what, but I demand that you bow to my whim and cater to my needs.

Even though I don't speak Spanish, because my grandmother insisted that her children be raised as Americans and speak English.

But that's not the point!

Daniel said...

A google translation of the anonymous post:

I think that all the this test hardly how racist you everything are, the legal immigrants to the E.E.U.U., we are a force every greater time. We spoke Spanish and so yes, the services of government must bend us and give the differential us. It wishes alive Mexico!

To which I reply: If you are an illegal alien you should know that I consider it my work to make sure that you get deported.

Foxtrot13 said...

Only a government agency would offer a pay raise if your actually are qualified for what they want.

Anonymous said...

I think the anonymous "spanish speaker" was a flamer who used a translating tool to post. I say this because the amount of grammatical error indicates two degrees of artificial intelligence in the translation.