Example: several of my former coworkers are from Mexico, Peru and Argentina, meaning they share Spanish as a common language.

I used to practice Spanish with them, but my last charge (like a ward’s manager) would yell at us to stop it, use English only. She would get very angry really fast if she heard anything in a language she didn’t understand.

I find it stupid, because some of them would use Spanish to better explain to the new nurses how to do certain procedures, but maybe I’m missing something?

  • starlinguk@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    The vacancy required German, but the department is from all over the place and we speak English a lot of the time. Nobody cares because they’re not bigoted asshats.