Reply #98: Russian immigrant waitress with poor english skills. [View All]

And different social background and mores. We have an enormous number of russian and eastern european seasonal workers in New Jersey who come just for the summer and work service jobs. Most have just enough english (but their russian accents are actually very cool) to get by. Her name was Karina, and I bet you thats her situation.

Their culture, it seems from talking to them, is a bit "Archie-Bunkerish," they can seem insensitive about a lot of things, very very straightforward, they do not use euphemisms for anything.

So this non-native english speaker from a completely different culture committed a faux pas.

Lets all just condemn the employer and assume everyone in the room was an anti-semite, thats the smart thing to do.