If you know...
Aug. 22nd, 2014 10:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serendipity8791That someone is planning on getting the company you work for in trouble, but you know it's legal, even if you disagree politically with it, should you report them?
I overheard the ticketing department's supervisors planning to report our company because, since our payroll department is all in Toronto, they aren't bilingual and can't communicate with them in French. The two supervisors are fully bilingual, though they make small mistakes, I hear them talking with staff from the Toronto office on a daily basis.
Instead of going through our internal lingustic affairs committee, they are going straight to the government office (one of them is emailing the OQLF, as I am typing this) that polices such things. Which will likely mean a fine, which, for a company our size and that is struggling to get out of debt from previous owners doing stupid things, will probably impact revenue.
This does not help the fact that we have had one single raise in the last 6 years. And by raise, I mean, that was the single time my pay went up by anything. This company does not automatically index our salary with the rise in cost of living. You get a raise, or you don't. Heck, minimum wage has been going up faster than my salary has in the last 6 years. We even have an inside joke with my lunch crowd, that, if this keeps up a few more years, they won't have a choice but to raise us every year, because we will effectively have dropped to minimum wage.
Getting the company fined for language shit that could be handled internally and for every little thing you disagree with is not helping any. And I wouldn't even be surprised if employees in other provinces got raises during that time and we didn't because we just cost them too much.
By the way, this was not a discrimination thing, it was just the person in Toronto apologizing for not being bilingual and asking the person in Montreal if they could send their question again in English so they could help them easier.
Sigh.
I overheard the ticketing department's supervisors planning to report our company because, since our payroll department is all in Toronto, they aren't bilingual and can't communicate with them in French. The two supervisors are fully bilingual, though they make small mistakes, I hear them talking with staff from the Toronto office on a daily basis.
Instead of going through our internal lingustic affairs committee, they are going straight to the government office (one of them is emailing the OQLF, as I am typing this) that polices such things. Which will likely mean a fine, which, for a company our size and that is struggling to get out of debt from previous owners doing stupid things, will probably impact revenue.
This does not help the fact that we have had one single raise in the last 6 years. And by raise, I mean, that was the single time my pay went up by anything. This company does not automatically index our salary with the rise in cost of living. You get a raise, or you don't. Heck, minimum wage has been going up faster than my salary has in the last 6 years. We even have an inside joke with my lunch crowd, that, if this keeps up a few more years, they won't have a choice but to raise us every year, because we will effectively have dropped to minimum wage.
Getting the company fined for language shit that could be handled internally and for every little thing you disagree with is not helping any. And I wouldn't even be surprised if employees in other provinces got raises during that time and we didn't because we just cost them too much.
By the way, this was not a discrimination thing, it was just the person in Toronto apologizing for not being bilingual and asking the person in Montreal if they could send their question again in English so they could help them easier.
Sigh.
