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Waiter Asks: Is Being "French" a Protected Human Right?

posted by janrinok on Tuesday March 27 2018, @12:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the Oooh-La-La! dept.

Appalbarry writes:

An apparently obnoxious restaurant employee in Vancouver BC has filed a human rights complaint claiming that he has been discriminated against because he's "too French." CBC News reports that Guillaume Rey has filed a complaint at the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal against Milestones Restaurant and its parent company, Cara Operations, where he worked as a waiter from October 2015 to August 2016. Rey says his co-workers misinterpreted his "direct, honest and professional" French personality.

Although Rey was reportedly well-liked by customers, on several occasions he was disciplined and warned about how he treated his colleagues, which the restaurant described as "combative and aggressive." Rey was fired for violating the company's Respect in the Workplace policy.

Rey might want to look closely at another recent decision, in which the Human Rights Tribunal decided that a local "'Brash, loud and obnoxious gay male' doesn't have right to (send) rude emails" to his local city council.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @02:15AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @02:15AM (#658753)

    In my experience, Americans can be some of the most annoying people you will ever meet.

    They are well known to be proud to be be assholes, and are often ignorant about everything except the town they grew up in.

    Case in point: Canada is a big country - the french people in Quebec are known as the "Americans of the North", where the ones from Eastern Canada are quite nicer IMHO.

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  • (Score: 2, Flamebait) by SpockLogic on Tuesday March 27 2018, @02:40AM (3 children)

    by SpockLogic (2762) on Tuesday March 27 2018, @02:40AM (#658762)

    Quebec would be a wonderful place if it wasn't full of French Canadians.

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    Overreacting is one thing, sticking your head up your ass hoping the problem goes away is another - edIII

    • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @04:58AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @04:58AM (#658843)

      Spock is dead, that does not bode well for your "logic".

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @03:38PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @03:38PM (#659012)

      And the U.S. would be great if it wasn't full of Americans.

      See how this works dipshits?

    • (Score: 2) by aclarke on Tuesday March 27 2018, @03:40PM

      by aclarke (2049) on Tuesday March 27 2018, @03:40PM (#659013) Homepage

      I don't come here to read prejudicial comments like yours.

  • (Score: 2) by aclarke on Tuesday March 27 2018, @03:44PM

    by aclarke (2049) on Tuesday March 27 2018, @03:44PM (#659015) Homepage

    Hmm:

    https://www.google.ca/search?q=quebec+americans+of+the+north [google.ca] 6 results
    https://www.google.ca/search?q=quebecois+americans+of+the+north [google.ca] 4 results

    I can't find a lot of support for your assertion.