Hispanic Jobs

It takes all kinds of people. LatPro is made up of employees from all over North and South America, from every kind of background, from every sized city or rural area, from every section of the political spectrum. We have Colombians, Argentinians, Venezuelans, Guatemalans, Brazilians, Puerto Ricans and Cubans to name a few. We also have born and raised Pennsylvanians such as me. LatPro is a very nice group of people and we get into some lively debates and conversations about all sorts of things.

I am wondering if other companies have the same types of back-and-forth as LatPro. Have you ever corrected your boss or peer on their grammar? Well that happens all the time here, and at least for the first 10 or 20 times is appreciated. Do fellow employees tease each other about their accents? I mean, come on, when I was in college in New York the rest of my friends in the dorm used to think my Pennsylvania accent was funny. But I’ve come a long way and am starting to see what accent belongs with what country.

Do the non-Spanish speakers constantly ask for words or phrases to be translated for them, as if trying to learn Spanish or Portuguese in a day, phrase by phrase? We have those people too, and they aren’t shy to try out their new-found knowledge on the rest of the bunch. I am all for learning the new language and practicing, so this is a very amusing daily exercise here.

Then there are the conversations about which countries’ leaders are corrupt, who is financing the other countries’ political leaders, the bad decisions made by those leaders (including the US). All this to the point where the Presidents of some countries have nicknames. Uncle Huey did this. Uncle Huey said that. I’ll let you guess who Uncle Huey is.

So is my company a nice and fun place to work? Yep! No, our CEO doesn’t dress in drag like over at Southwest Airlines, so it’s not that fun. But is it a typical office? Well, that’s what I am searching for the answers on.

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