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Re:Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US... by ajmurmann on Saturday September 09, 2023 @09:14AM (#37444982)
"chances are they’ll converse in their native language from time to time"

This needs to be a big No No. Everyone should speak the language everyone else can understand in the workplace at all times. I natively speak German, but I never speak German at work even when I temporarily was only working with someone visiting from Germany. It would have been rude to everyone around us. But then I'm also weird in that I dislike speaking my native language...

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Re:Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US... by dotnet00 on Saturday September 09, 2023 @09:33AM (#37445209)
Agreed, I'm Indian and thus often it is the case that other Indians try to speak with me in Hindi, but I end up having to insist on English in certain contexts.

It's unnecessarily rude and exclusionary towards others. But on the other hand, I previously encountered the opinion that people who insist on speaking in English (especially without the "quirks" and accent of Indian English) despite being able to do Hindi are just trying to be pretentious.

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