Immigrant Daughter Makes Company Pay When Her Father Is Disrespected By HR
Emily Huynh was outraged when she saw the email her father received in response to a possible job interview with Dash Delivery LLC.
The HR representative, Bruce Peterson responded to Minh Huynh, a Vietnamese immigrant in a completely racist and derogatory nature claiming that he would send the applicant, Huynh, home if it turns out that he “no speak English.”
Sounds like you “no understand basic human empathy” Peterson!
While English comprehension might be an important part of the job, the ‘tude about it was never necessary. Especially since home boy over here probably took 4 years of language classes and still cannot properly string together a sentence.
Although Emily was outraged by the situation and received lots of support from people on the internet, some even encouraging them to sue; Emily tweeted out that her father is unfazed by the situation and would rather put it all behind him.
“My dad told me that he isn’t that ‘hurt’ by it, but there’s a big stigma around Asian immigrant parents that deal with this all the time. They brush it off because they don’t understand the depth of the situation. People always use micro aggressions with or without knowing they do which is a big concern when it comes to the treatment of future citizens. I’m just disgusted,” Huynh said to NextShark
“They have been struggling ever since they got here,” she said about her parents. “Some say that once you get to America, you’re golden, but a lot of immigrants struggle in America as much as they struggled in their homeland.”
In the end, Dash Delivery LLC responded to the incident apologizing for the behavior of their employee and even said that following their investigation, Peterson is no longer with the company. The power of the internet!
I've tried to learn other languages, and I'll also admit that I don't have the talent for it. Now, yes, I believe that if you're planning on being in America, you should probably know English, but I'd also say that if you're planning on going to Germany, you should probably know German, or French if you're going to France, or Spanish if you're going to Spain or Mexico.
And at the same time, it's another perfect example of someone learning the hard way that you can't be a shit-bag in a professional environment. There are far more professional ways to tell someone that the job requires a strong command of the English language, after all, and to threaten to 'send you home' is very unprofessional, completely unnecessary, and downright rude. Kudos to the company for throwing out the trash, even if it's a case of Cover-Your-Ass.