How Not to Run a Hotel
Have you heard the one about the white hotel owner who told his Hispanic employees to change their Spanish-sounding names in order to improve his business’s bottom line? Oh, yes he did.
Hotel Owner Wants to De-Ethnicize Hispanic Employees
We’ve probably all experienced a new boss who charges in with new rules before ever scouting out the culture of the organization he’s now running. This story about a white hotel owner in New Mexico who told his Hispanic employees to change their first names to make them sound more American adds another dimension to that familiar workplace scenario.
