LOL, because there's absolutely no reason to speak any other language. Certainly not because you can actually communicate quickly and easily in your first language, and you have, y'know, work to do.
I was a barista for a small business one summer, and we worked with a guy from Venezuela. He could speak English but pretty slowly and had a hard time understanding it, especially with all the noise. I'm bilingual in Spanish and English, and at first the boss asked us to speak only in English (he thought it looked unprofessional to speak in Spanish). That lasted all of three days - we wasted so much time trying to speak slowly and clearly and repeat everything three or four times that the boss asked us to go back to Spanish.
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I was a barista for a small business one summer, and we worked with a guy from Venezuela. He could speak English but pretty slowly and had a hard time understanding it, especially with all the noise. I'm bilingual in Spanish and English, and at first the boss asked us to speak only in English (he thought it looked unprofessional to speak in Spanish). That lasted all of three days - we wasted so much time trying to speak slowly and clearly and repeat everything three or four times that the boss asked us to go back to Spanish.