Friends Welcome

[debilorrah]

Quote:
So a business cannot be successful in the deep south unless you can communicate with anybody who doesn't speak English?

Perhaps potential employers just keep telling me that so they don't hurt my feelings. Maybe speaking Spanish is not a requirement, but just a way that they can tell me they don't want to hire me without it looking like it's my fault?

But every time I apply for a job, the first question is "Do you speak Spanish?". Which, sadly, I do not. End of interview.

Texans like to hire their own. You are not one of them. Been there done that.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

Quote:
Well, that says everything. It's not you, it's them.

Okay, how about a job selling textbooks that teach Spanish. Only English speaking people will be asking for them...

Okay, dumb. I just feel badly for you Kelli. You and your man deserve to be together. And you deserve a great job anywhere you get planted.

 

[ksacres]

Honestly, this probably isn't the best place to discuss this, but where we are in Texas, white people are a TINY minority. Latin/Spanish/Hispanic people are the vast majority, and many that I've had the (dis)pleasure of meeting look at any white person with open contempt. Hostility, rudeness, whatever you want to call it. I never would have believed it possible if I hadn't lived it.

In stores and at the mall, I have been plowed into, hit with carts, flipped off, had people cut in line in front of me, been stared at to the point of extreme discomfort. It's crazy. I would never treat any person that way, ever. The attitude is ridiculous.

 

[debilorrah]

Quote:
Yes it is like that, and yes it is ridiculous.

 

[ksacres]

Quote:
I keep telling myself that. But it's hard to believe when you get turned down again and again. I'm a bit discouraged, if you couldn't tell, and going back to Wyoming is kind of a last-ditch effort to get a job on a level playing field.

There is a chance that dh will get sent back to Wyoming in a few months, there's just not a very good chance.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

Quote:
Well, seems some prayers are in order. Don't you worry your pretty little head Kelli, we'll get your hunk back to Wyoming before he can even notice you and your stilettos are gone.

 

[ksacres]

Quote:
Yes it is like that, and yes it is ridiculous.

I'm glad to know that someone else has been through it. At first I kept telling myself that it was just me and that I was being overly sensitive. But after a while, I just couldn't deny the obvious any longer.

I really wish we had spent more time in Texas before moving here, and talked to people that had lived here. Things are a lot different than we thought they would be.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

Quote:
Well, who would even think to ask questions like that? I mean, who would think to ask if everybody would hate me there?

You did the best you could Kelli. Is your DH okay with things? Is he still reporting to less than ideal people?

 

[ksacres]

Quote:
My sister tried to explain it to me before I moved here, and I just told her there was no way it was like that. I told her that kind of behaviour would never be tolerated in the good ol' USA. Seems I was wrong, and I ended up apologizing to my sister for not believing her. Wish I had listened.

 

[debilorrah]

Quote:
Well, doesn't sound like it's part of the good ol' USA anymore.

Seems that majority rule always corrupts the majority's idea of fair treatment.

Let me say this. I have met some really awesome people from Texas. Now, Texas is it's our country. And me being from California?? There was no way I could have survived there. I am a white woman from California who is overweight. I think I had a target on my back.