I never told my employers that I had 7 years of Spanish during my schooling. One day we all had to make collection calls and, from the notes on the patient's account, I knew I would have to speak Spanish. After a short phone conversation I hung up. It was dead quiet in the office and everyone was staring at me. My boss asked why I never said I spoke Spanish? I said I was not fluent and went back to placing calls. We never spoke of it again.
I see every employer I ever had in a career of over 50 years in these clips - I also see how i was taken advantage of at every turn. On the other hand, 50 years ago Veronica's employment would have been short-lived
Probably not. I've found that applicants that treat interviews as if the company is also auditioning wind up better than those that just take the base offer or don't hold firm stances. Not always, mind you. But as the saying goes, closed mouths don't get fed.
Yeah, but a lot isnt most. English is the number 1 spoken language in the world - According to the latest UN research and it includes native and non-native speakers. So whereas a lot of folks do not speak English, most do.
My daughter got a job at a huge food franchise company transcribing conversations with overseas franchise owners. She is fluent in Italian,French and Spanish and is learning Japanese paid for by the company. She gets a pretty good bump in pay over the other transcribers that only speak english and once she can transcribe in Japanese she will get another pretty big bump up in pay. Pay your employees for the job they are doing.
I worked in a collection center years ago. The company did collection for several cable companies across the US. They finally placed most of the Spanish speakers in one que. I was so happy because my Spanish speaking coworkers were going to get more $ per hour!!! English calls came into their que so they were doing double the work. I saw them exhausted from switching languages and vernacular. They deserved every bit of that raise!!!❤
Funny story at my last employer I was written up for speaking to customers in Spanish which I picked up while living for 20 plus years in Texas. Due to the fact that the folks who were supervisors did not know Spanish and were unable to "tell what I was saying to them" was correct or not. Also when our calls were centered in Texas I would drop into the Texas drawl I picked up living there ( for 20 + years} with out noticing and this was also write up offence. Long story short I was discharged due to my ability to speak with folks in Texas, where this company had a large call volume.
@@srideout91 it is not, this is the only channel the real veronica works with, she made a video about them and asked people not to attack ToonTribeAnimations because they're the only one she gave permission to.
I had an employer who wanted me to perform IT services. I asked for additional compensation since I was not hired for that role. They pulled out my job description which had clear at the bottom a line that read "and others duties as necessary". I knew that was the end.
Interestingly, if it's well outside your job description, that's not going to hold up under any reasonable scrutiny. Sadly, in any right to work state, they're not reasonable. I'm qualified as a documentation librarian and they currently have me doing data validation. They also have me receiving regular extra bonuses and free days off I don't have debited against my PTO because this is so far outside my job description it's a) not funny and b) so not funny they're aware they're pushing it. I also trust my employers as they've come through for me before, they are now, and they will again.
@@gregmay4212 "I was recently infected by a small Altarian brain worm that ate only that particular piece of information. There's a price to relearn it again."
Being bilingual is either a privilege given to you by your parents as a child or a skill you worked your butt off for... but a skill is a skill, companies should pay extra for it. How dare they reject someone who's unilingual but then don't pay the bilingual person extra.
I'm fluent in Spanish and English and never got paid extra for helping in the office. People are speaking up today. Years ago it was expected to just translate
I’m back to studying Spanish after years of grade school study and I’m working on French too. It’s cheaper nowadays to study with all the resources available but it still takes time and commitment. Time is money 🫴🏽💵 and labor ain’t free
Two channel similar to your recently shut down this week because I didn’t give credit to the original individual. If I were you, I would start giving credit where credit is due or you will find yourself in the same exact situation. I will not be surprised if you already have strikes on your channel for doing this.
I worked in a company for 3 years and the assistant of the sales manager spoke 3-5 languages. They told it to me in my first week and how important she is. She was a better Secretary and everyone knew that except her. She might been really important and had more workskills then me but at the end I earned 20% more and worked 25% less. That was 2016-2020 and she's working there to this day in the same position and I think for the same Money.
The interviewer effed up and prematurely showed their hand. Should've waited until AFTER hiring the employee before trying to exploit their multi-lingual skills. That way the ball would be in the employee's court to determine if it would be worthwhile to renegotiate their contract. But at the pre-hire stage they need to ante up if they try to make that skill a REQUIREMENT.
First you have to be accepted for the job... I guess you can negotiate that into your package, and I guess that's what's being portrayed here. I personally would approach this the way this clip shows, there's a lot out there that can do the job, that's just reality.
If you are getting paid hourly than yes, get a bonus for your skills. If you are salaried though, add in all your training and experience into what your salary is and accept that you may be called to do that work while doing business. It's a great selling point and can help you land that job. If it's going to be outside your normal work and they just expect you to add more time in, then discuss benefits you can get if it becomes a lot of work.
Agreed. You at least have to pick your battles. If you pull a "Veronica" over every issue, you'll just get a reputation for being difficult and no one will take you seriously and you can find yourself isolated. But a well-timed zinger in a meeting can have a potentially positive impact - as long as you don't do it incessantly.
Why should employees being expected to ‘help out the team’ and accept that ‘we’re like family’ when many employers will dismiss employees without notice or cause, withhold vacation or PPO pay and otherwise make life difficult or unpleasant for the employee , and the employee is expected to just put up with it?
Is Veronica interviewing for a consultant position or to be a full-time employee? Sounds like a full-time employee, which means that she can't invoice the company for performing certain tasks that are simply part of her job. The only extra compensation she can hope to receive as a full-time employee is either a raise or time and a half for any overtime she works. It's not a favor, boss. It's part of the job. You're setting up the company for liability by calling it a "favor". I can't believe Veronica is talking like this on a job interview. I would never hire someone with her attitude; I wouldn't trust her to do accurate translations.
That still doesn't take away the fact that no employer should ever even remotely ask any extra tasks or expect the similar without any extra compensation. They just come off as very parasitic then.
If she has this attitude now and you don't hire her, she can't come back and do the nasty videos she did earlier of the nagging employee. Perhaps she might be getting the job because she can speak three languages. But, she just needs to say either she's getting paid for it or not and then shut up about it rather than droning on and on and on like she does in every video she makes with that horrible accent she has.
Well the interviewer did say that her translation services were not included, therefore, it is an extra task that the company would love to have her for. Anyways, the interviewer did say that they have translator services it just seems to me like they have to go that extra mile. So it seems to me that if they are willing to go that extra mile when they don’t have Veronica around (or any employee that is qualified), then they should compensate her for the times that she is both available AND use her translator services. However, In a way I kind of feel like she may have hurt herself in that regard too, because the interviewer did say that they have a translator service, so she didn’t make herself exactly stand out, but somehow she still managed to make herself seem valuable because she would be in house. So I can kind of see your perspective.
@@marianieto1237 that they have translator services They have to pay for them, so if they want a staff translator who does the same services, she deserves to get paid as well There aint no such thing as a free lunch, Josephine.
Lol "I would never hire someone who was straightforward, knew their value and spoke plainly to me in regards to their pay". Noted. Don't work for you. You don't consider your employees and are likely to punish them for being direct with you. This is a clear example of an employer trying to save money on a needed service by roping it into an individual employee's tasks without properly compensating them. They say right in the video that they pay someone to do what they are hoping she will do for free, just because she has the skill. If it were just "part of the job" then it would be something everyone on the team had to do. Having a skill doesnt mean your employer just gets to use it with impunity irregardless of your actual job description. People train and pay for schooling etc to aquire skills that will make them higher earners. Nobody is trying to help you save money on translation services as a favor boss. Sorry 😂
I'm guessing that they hired someone else. I would never hire anyone that acted so rudely on an interview. She could have had an edge over the other 100 people who wanted the same job. auf verschiedenen, adieu, adiós, αντίο σας, bye bye 🕊️
its funny. i see what you did there at the end. but "auf verschiedenen" does not mean what you think it did. i can translate it for you and tell you what good bye actually is in german, but your comment was rude so you didnt make it over the edge
I never told my employers that I had 7 years of Spanish during my schooling. One day we all had to make collection calls and, from the notes on the patient's account, I knew I would have to speak Spanish. After a short phone conversation I hung up. It was dead quiet in the office and everyone was staring at me. My boss asked why I never said I spoke Spanish? I said I was not fluent and went back to placing calls. We never spoke of it again.
This isn’t a flex, instead of adding it as a skill(with the skill level) on your resume you did the work for free
@@charde9739yea honestly sounds like they are not taking advantage of that extra skill. But idk maybe they just didn’t want to do work with it?😅
I see every employer I ever had in a career of over 50 years in these clips - I also see how i was taken advantage of at every turn. On the other hand, 50 years ago Veronica's employment would have been short-lived
Probably not. I've found that applicants that treat interviews as if the company is also auditioning wind up better than those that just take the base offer or don't hold firm stances. Not always, mind you. But as the saying goes, closed mouths don't get fed.
Lol she’s right a lot of people aren’t fluent in English these day’s either!
Me included.
These day's what?
Also, many people fail to use correct punctuation.
Yeah, but a lot isnt most. English is the number 1 spoken language in the world - According to the latest UN research and it includes native and non-native speakers. So whereas a lot of folks do not speak English, most do.
These DAYS. The irony.
My daughter got a job at a huge food franchise company transcribing conversations with overseas franchise owners. She is fluent in Italian,French and Spanish and is learning Japanese paid for by the company.
She gets a pretty good bump in pay over the other transcribers that only speak english and once she can transcribe in Japanese she will get another pretty big bump up in pay.
Pay your employees for the job they are doing.
Corpos take note: this is the way!
I worked in a collection center years ago. The company did collection for several cable companies across the US. They finally placed most of the Spanish speakers in one que. I was so happy because my Spanish speaking coworkers were going to get more $ per hour!!! English calls came into their que so they were doing double the work. I saw them exhausted from switching languages and vernacular. They deserved every bit of that raise!!!❤
Queue
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Funny story at my last employer I was written up for speaking to customers in Spanish which I picked up while living for 20 plus years in Texas. Due to the fact that the folks who were supervisors did not know Spanish and were unable to "tell what I was saying to them" was correct or not. Also when our calls were centered in Texas I would drop into the Texas drawl I picked up living there ( for 20 + years} with out noticing and this was also write up offence. Long story short I was discharged due to my ability to speak with folks in Texas, where this company had a large call volume.
If she wants to be a translator, remove her from office work. And pay her accordingly upon service rendered.
Your veronica videos are the best 😂
This is stolen content.
Did something change because she pinned a post on her Instagram saying the only channek she's working with ToonTribe?
@@srideout91 it is not, this is the only channel the real veronica works with, she made a video about them and asked people not to attack ToonTribeAnimations because they're the only one she gave permission to.
I had an employer who wanted me to perform IT services. I asked for additional compensation since I was not hired for that role.
They pulled out my job description which had clear at the bottom a line that read "and others duties as necessary".
I knew that was the end.
Interestingly, if it's well outside your job description, that's not going to hold up under any reasonable scrutiny. Sadly, in any right to work state, they're not reasonable.
I'm qualified as a documentation librarian and they currently have me doing data validation. They also have me receiving regular extra bonuses and free days off I don't have debited against my PTO because this is so far outside my job description it's a) not funny and b) so not funny they're aware they're pushing it.
I also trust my employers as they've come through for me before, they are now, and they will again.
Why can’t u say ur unable or you don’t know how to or smth since that’s not your job (genuinely asking)
I had been doing it for a while. (I was originally a computer science manager.)
I wanted to be compensated for the work I was doing.
@@gregmay4212 "I was recently infected by a small Altarian brain worm that ate only that particular piece of information. There's a price to relearn it again."
@@gregmay4212 ohhh ok, jeez that sucks . Guess I should look out for as necessary when I look into jobs
Veronica’s the hero we didn’t know we needed.
Being bilingual is either a privilege given to you by your parents as a child or a skill you worked your butt off for... but a skill is a skill, companies should pay extra for it. How dare they reject someone who's unilingual but then don't pay the bilingual person extra.
I'm fluent in Spanish and English and never got paid extra for helping in the office. People are speaking up today. Years ago it was expected to just translate
even 20 years ago it was listed on job listings that fluency was a minimum hourly + $1-3
I’m back to studying Spanish after years of grade school study and I’m working on French too. It’s cheaper nowadays to study with all the resources available but it still takes time and commitment. Time is money 🫴🏽💵 and labor ain’t free
I can't stand when a company wants to freeload off of its employees and tries to sugar coat on top of it!
If I put it on the resume, the discussion about it will involve pay.
Can you imagine being married to the mind behind Veronica?
I would be into it. But. Im not into women. LoL
How to talk your potential employer into not hiring you.
Thank you, PERIODT!
I live in Las Vegas and we have a casino dealer who speaks 7 languages. He makes more money some of the managers.
Two channel similar to your recently shut down this week because I didn’t give credit to the original individual. If I were you, I would start giving credit where credit is due or you will find yourself in the same exact situation. I will not be surprised if you already have strikes on your channel for doing this.
The video description gives audio credit and tags V's TH-cam channel...
The video description gives audio credit and tags V's TH-cam channel...
I would just like to be able to call a call center and speak with someone who is fluent in English 😮
I worked in a company for 3 years and the assistant of the sales manager spoke 3-5 languages. They told it to me in my first week and how important she is. She was a better Secretary and everyone knew that except her. She might been really important and had more workskills then me but at the end I earned 20% more and worked 25% less. That was 2016-2020 and she's working there to this day in the same position and I think for the same Money.
The interviewer effed up and prematurely showed their hand. Should've waited until AFTER hiring the employee before trying to exploit their multi-lingual skills. That way the ball would be in the employee's court to determine if it would be worthwhile to renegotiate their contract. But at the pre-hire stage they need to ante up if they try to make that skill a REQUIREMENT.
First you have to be accepted for the job... I guess you can negotiate that into your package, and I guess that's what's being portrayed here. I personally would approach this the way this clip shows, there's a lot out there that can do the job, that's just reality.
Did she get the job?
So, I guess whoever is going to do business with that company should learn to speak English or pay more for a translator or bring their own...
People watching these videos. They are funny for sure, but you should only act like this if you really don’t care whether or not you’re employed
If you are getting paid hourly than yes, get a bonus for your skills. If you are salaried though, add in all your training and experience into what your salary is and accept that you may be called to do that work while doing business. It's a great selling point and can help you land that job. If it's going to be outside your normal work and they just expect you to add more time in, then discuss benefits you can get if it becomes a lot of work.
Me when I suck off corporate (I am very pathetic)
Agreed. You at least have to pick your battles. If you pull a "Veronica" over every issue, you'll just get a reputation for being difficult and no one will take you seriously and you can find yourself isolated. But a well-timed zinger in a meeting can have a potentially positive impact - as long as you don't do it incessantly.
I’d be surprised if anyone take these videos seriously lol. But yet, it’s 2024 so not really 😂
Why should employees being expected to ‘help out the team’ and accept that ‘we’re like family’ when many employers will dismiss employees without notice or cause, withhold vacation or PPO pay and otherwise make life difficult or unpleasant for the employee , and the employee is expected to just put up with it?
Is Veronica interviewing for a consultant position or to be a full-time employee? Sounds like a full-time employee, which means that she can't invoice the company for performing certain tasks that are simply part of her job. The only extra compensation she can hope to receive as a full-time employee is either a raise or time and a half for any overtime she works.
It's not a favor, boss. It's part of the job. You're setting up the company for liability by calling it a "favor".
I can't believe Veronica is talking like this on a job interview. I would never hire someone with her attitude; I wouldn't trust her to do accurate translations.
That still doesn't take away the fact that no employer should ever even remotely ask any extra tasks or expect the similar without any extra compensation. They just come off as very parasitic then.
If she has this attitude now and you don't hire her, she can't come back and do the nasty videos she did earlier of the nagging employee. Perhaps she might be getting the job because she can speak three languages. But, she just needs to say either she's getting paid for it or not and then shut up about it rather than droning on and on and on like she does in every video she makes with that horrible accent she has.
Well the interviewer did say that her translation services were not included, therefore, it is an extra task that the company would love to have her for. Anyways, the interviewer did say that they have translator services it just seems to me like they have to go that extra mile. So it seems to me that if they are willing to go that extra mile when they don’t have Veronica around (or any employee that is qualified), then they should compensate her for the times that she is both available AND use her translator services.
However, In a way I kind of feel like she may have hurt herself in that regard too, because the interviewer did say that they have a translator service, so she didn’t make herself exactly stand out, but somehow she still managed to make herself seem valuable because she would be in house. So I can kind of see your perspective.
@@marianieto1237 that they have translator services
They have to pay for them, so if they want a staff translator who does the same services, she deserves to get paid as well
There aint no such thing as a free lunch, Josephine.
Lol "I would never hire someone who was straightforward, knew their value and spoke plainly to me in regards to their pay". Noted. Don't work for you. You don't consider your employees and are likely to punish them for being direct with you.
This is a clear example of an employer trying to save money on a needed service by roping it into an individual employee's tasks without properly compensating them. They say right in the video that they pay someone to do what they are hoping she will do for free, just because she has the skill.
If it were just "part of the job" then it would be something everyone on the team had to do. Having a skill doesnt mean your employer just gets to use it with impunity irregardless of your actual job description. People train and pay for schooling etc to aquire skills that will make them higher earners. Nobody is trying to help you save money on translation services as a favor boss. Sorry 😂
I'm guessing that they hired someone else. I would never hire anyone that acted so rudely on an interview. She could have had an edge over the other 100 people who wanted the same job. auf verschiedenen, adieu, adiós, αντίο σας, bye bye 🕊️
its funny. i see what you did there at the end. but "auf verschiedenen" does not mean what you think it did. i can translate it for you and tell you what good bye actually is in german, but your comment was rude so you didnt make it over the edge