Major Filipino Grocery Store Chain - Hiring Practices

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

If it makes you feel any better, sex shops and gun stores are predominantly staffed by white people.

and how does aj know this?

I frequently go out of my comfort zone.

It's about 20% Indian. There's an apartment complex called Hilltop which is all Indian. Most of the other apartment complexes are mostly Indian. I live about 15 minutes from Hilltop.

ps. I do not recommend visiting Hilltop. It's not dangerous, just very depressing.

[Calypso 464]

ps. I do not recommend visiting Hilltop. It's not dangerous, just very depressing.

I don't know where we are specifically going in Edison but my husband and his brother-in-law are ordering something there before we drive back to Secaucus. It must be food.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I don't know where we are specifically going in Edison but my husband and his brother-in-law are ordering something there before we drive back to Secaucus. It must be food.

Indian food is the only reason anyone goes to Edison, unless there's family to meet.

My favorite is Rasoi. Good food, good portions and the bartender rocks.

[DEDixon 39]

Sure, if white people in said community were conversant with a culture and spoke a language no one else did, and if the customer base were such that made such knowledge necessary.

We're a J2EE shop at work. We don't hire C++ people. Not because they don't apply, but because we have no need for them.

but if management hired 95% J2EE east indian programmers, you would be crying a river.

[DEDixon 39]

I don't have problems with Filipinos being hired in Filipino supermarkets. I used to detest using Filipino, our national language, when I was in the PH [i love my native tongue Cebuano-Visayan] but whenever my husband and I go to Seafood City, I speak to the service crew in Filipino and it feels positively different. Moreover, Filipinos are more familiar with Philippine goods and products. For example, I may not find tamarind for my sinigang. It can be easier to ask a fellow Filipino for a tamarind substitute rather than face a clueless "white" who hasn't even known what sinigang is.

even if they diversified to say 50% filipinos, you'd still be able to get your warm and fuzzies.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I don't have problems with Filipinos being hired in Filipino supermarkets. I used to detest using Filipino, our national language, when I was in the PH [i love my native tongue Cebuano-Visayan] but whenever my husband and I go to Seafood City, I speak to the service crew in Filipino and it feels positively different. Moreover, Filipinos are more familiar with Philippine goods and products. For example, I may not find tamarind for my sinigang. It can be easier to ask a fellow Filipino for a tamarind substitute rather than face a clueless "white" who hasn't even known what sinigang is.

Sakto, igsuon!

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

but if management hired 95% J2EE east indian programmers, you would be crying a river.

Why do you think that?

[Calypso 464]

Sakto, igsuon!

Are you making Doc Jinky write?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Are you making Doc Jinky write?

I asked her how to say, "Right on, sister!" and she gave me that.

[DEDixon 39]

Why do you think that?

oh sorry, i didn't know you were east indian.

[Calypso 464]

I asked her how to say, "Right on, sister!" and she gave me that.

We'll, she didn't make fun of the translation. She said it accurately.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

We'll, she didn't make fun of the translation. She said it accurately.

I just love love LOVE sinagong....so, sakto, igsuon!

[Calypso 464]

I just love love LOVE sinagong....so, sakto, igsuon!

Sayup. Dili sinagong, sinigang ang sakto.

[Dr. Obvious 49]

Local Filipino population less than 10 percent, store hires pretty much all Filipinos, discrimination? I seriously doubt other nationalities haven't applied.

Anyone think Safeway would get away with hiring solely white people if the local population wasn't 100 percent white?

One day, I even saw a sign... "Now Hiring Male... blah, blah, blah"

Wait, have you applied and they told you to lick a goat's testicle because you weren't One Of Them or you are just assuming that is what they would tell you?

This thread is useless with out a job application. Or useless anyway. Whatever.

Edited April 17, 2010 by Wacken

[DEDixon 39]

Wait, have you applied and they told you to lick a goat's testicle because you weren't One Of Them or you are just assuming that is what they would tell you?

This thread is useless with out a job application. Or useless anyway. Whatever.

oh me oh my, a useless thread threat.... what is the world coming to?

no i didn't apply.