Foreign Language Requirements
At the fast food restaurant I worked at, we collectively spoke English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and German. I’m not fluent in anything but I’m decent in Spanish, Italian, French, and a little Tagalog. It’s a small college town so the population is an odd combination of people who’ve never left the state and immigrants.
If people insulted us in a foreign language, someone on the staff would always give them a not-so-kind response back in that language. Most people just kind of freeze from embarrassment. One person walked out and never came back. There’s a weird stereotype of all fast food workers being lazy poor idiots, so we appreciate getting to put customers in their place when they’re being rude.
We actually only hired college students, and many of us had foreign language requirements attached to our degrees. 29_TwoFor_50