'You No Speak English': HR Manager Mocks Job Applicant In Email

SEATTLE, WA - An HR manager for an Everett company was fired this week after mocking a tri-lingual man's written English skills in an email. The man's daughter, a high school student in Seattle, posted an image of the offending email on Twitter as an example of discrimination that non-native English speakers face.

"Let me tell you now, if you no speak English I will send you Home-“ the HR manager wrote to Emily Huynh's father, who speaks English, Vietnamese, and Cantonese.

The company, Dash Delivery LLC, responded to backlash by firing the HR manager. The company apologized to Huynh and her father in a letter, calling the HR manager's email "inappropriate and inconsistent with our values."

"My dad isn’t that hurt, he just doesn’t fully understand the concept of someone not hiring him for his lack of English when he has more experience than most people," Huynh, a Cleveland High School student, wrote on Twitter.

Huynh's father lost his truck-driving job two years ago, according to the Seattle Times, and has been working odd jobs ever since. Huynh's parents both moved to the U.S. in 1995 and live in the Beacon Hill neighborhood, according to the Times.

Huynh's thread on the ordeal, which contains a screenshot of the original email, has been retweeted shared over 23,000 times.

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