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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @01:14PM (2 children)
We're not all assholes. I work in a University and had a student who was obviously Spanish (Not Central or South American) come to me for some computer help. He asked me in the best way he could. Luckily, I speak a little Spanish. After I helped him, he thanked me for responding in such a clear and "enunciated" manner.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @04:07PM (1 child)
I wonder why you felt it necessary to include that parenthetical remark. Would you have acted differently if it had been a Central or South American?
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday March 27 2018, @04:23PM
Probably because of the "speak a little Spanish" part.
If you speak Catalan or Castellano, you ain't speaking no American dialect.