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Same story from CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight transcript:
Home Depot, this country's biggest home improvement retailer, today announced plans to hire 20,000 new workers. What makes this initiative different is that Home Depot says it prefers to hire Spanish-speaking workers for those jobs. And even more surprising, Home Depot's partners in the campaign include groups that advocate amnesty for illegal aliens and U.S. driver's licenses for illegals.
Bill Tucker reports.
BILL TUCKER, CNN FINANCIAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Home Depot is no stranger to marketing to the Hispanic marketplace. The home of the Los Angeles Major League soccer team is sponsored by Home Depot. Home Depot also sponsors the Mexican national soccer team.
And now the company is taking its relationship with the Hispanic community in a new direction. Home Depot wants to create 20,000 new jobs this year, and it's partnering with an array of Hispanic groups, hoping that they will help recruit the Hispanic bilingual workers.
DENNIS DONOVAN, HOME DEPOT: We see this as a real opportunity to work with these prominent Hispanic organizations, to tap into their strong networks of relationships and local offices that will not only help us fill our jobs, but also create employment opportunities.
TUCKER: The groups in turn will promote Home Depot.
ALFONSO MARTINEZ, HISPANIC ASSOCIATION ON CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY: One of the obvious outcomes of this is that Home Depot will earn the trust of the Hispanic community, which is such an important aspects for corporations reaching out to the Hispanic community.
Reporter: That alliance is made up of the ASPIRA association, the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, SER-Jobs for Progress National, and the National Council of La Raza.
La Raza's involvement raises some eyebrows, because it is a politically active group on illegal immigration issues.
(I don't know what that means, so don't ask.)
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Just great. Some more jobs that Americans could do normally, but can't because they don't speak a foreign language.
This trend has shut me out of a lot of jobs, that I would be otherwise qualified for, and no I don't have time to learn to speak espanol....
well they won't have to look far...
there's thousands of illegals walking up and down every Home Depot in America! LMAO
It looks like white folks had better learn Spanish if they want to compete for jobs at HD. It sounds like the multi-lingual gambit is an attempt to dodge laws banning racial discrimination, i.e., "Oh, we aren't hiring them because they are Hispanic, but because they are bi-lingual, the better to serve our diverse customer base."
I refuse to do business with any company who makes hiring or marketing distinctions based upon race. So long, HD.
Home Depot could recruit at WalMart. The last time I visited the local WalMart, I didn't hear one employee or customer who spoke English.
Read later.
Reminds me of when IBM had to buy stickers with "Basura" (or what ever the proper word is) on them because the cleaning crew couldn't figure out that the piles of trash in the hallway (all marked with "TRASH") were trash. How hard is it to learn "trash" when that's your job. How hard is it to learn "hammer", "nails", "lumber", "concrete", "paint"...?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/725312/posts
IBM has been trying the same sort of strategy, going after "minority" business. Here's a bit from IBM's VP of Diversity, Ted Childs.
In addition, IBM has a program that partners its executives with current or prospective customers from similar backgrounds. For instance, black IBM executives, in
addition to their regular duties, call on black business contacts, Hispanics call on Hispanics.
"I have a couple of accounts," Mr. Childs said. "I made my first call last year ... a brother-to-brother call." It's a strategy that has gone over well with the customers,
he said.
"We're going to see more companies owned by women or by ethnic minorities. If we get to them in their infancy and grow with them, that's how we'll grow," Mr.
Childs said.
"It's about opportunity, the opportunity for IBM to compete."
I sure hope Home Depot is checking their Green cards or it's off to Loews for me.
What happened to hiring employees, just regular folks.
Couldn't this move by Home depot be considered a Racist, Discriminating move?
Sigh...
English. Soon to become the New World's Latin.
No doubt the usual suspect(s) will be on this thread supporting La Raza.
From what I understand, Home Depot already employs a lot of Spanish speaking workers, even on Lawn Guyland. The one in Brooklyn employed many Dominicans and Ecuadorans, not alot of Mexicans.
Hispanic purchasing power will reach an estimated $1 trillion by 2008, the Hispanic Association of Corporate Responsibility says.
A) How about the Spanish speaking public learns to speak f'ing english since they have decided to live here?
B) How do they know they are not just hiring a bunch of illegals?
C) Do they even care?
D)"Home Depot's efforts will pay big dividends in the future" as the retailer fights with Lowe's and smaller rivals to capture that business, Humphreys said."
Mr. Humphreys, we are watching. You profits over borders greedy f*cks make me sick. Have fun selling out your country A$$H0lE.
How about just hire workers, PERIOD. And while you are at it, pick some with half a brain who have some clue about hardware and know what customer service is. I think I have walked out of a Home Depot check out line, leaving my full cart behind, more times than I care to remember. If I had a Lowes nearby I'd never go into a Home Depot again.
Hey, It's a good business move for HD. Our Pres has allowed our beautiful America to be overrun by illegals, so why should HD not take advantage of the crisis to make money?
Bush is the worse President our country has had. His legacy of destruction via II to our beautiful America will go down in history.
They just lost 100% of my business.
I was already unhappy with them for how they treated a neighbor who had an on the job injury earlier this year, but this takes the cake,.
The biggest question is how are they going to find 20,000 Hispanics who can pass their "pee into the bottle" tests?
I was angry enough that all the signs in the stores are both English and Spanish. We are talking about Northern Nevada here, folks, not San Diego!!!!!
And the next time I need hardware,
I'll drive right past Home Depot and continue on to Ace!
