Thursday 9 August 2012

WHITE CANADIAN WORK

The canadian dream, dont we have it, in some form or another? I did, and I belive i still have it, somewhere on the mud cynicism that living in canada for 9 years and having low payed jobs and being asked to over produce when I wasnt even motivate to do my best, when you feal exploited by a system that asks more and pays, humanly, emotionaly...less and less.

But lets talk about Work, the blood that makes the Canadian, the World economy spin and breath, we the immigrants who try to find a job, feal they belong here, I belong here, I like Canada alot, still there are many things in the canadian system that dont make sence, that hurt Us Imigrants that make Canada their home.

There is a general fealing that we are equal, legaly we are to some extend if we forget for some instants the fact most cops are white canadians, no need to be surprise, more on the way. When it comes to leadership in organizations, corporations and so forth, who leads? canadians, and i wont go to the sex details( male or female) thats a glass long broken. The white "supremacy" in Canada, and I dont mean this in any KKK type of way, goes to the extend that while canadians have the "easy" job, and stay the longer employed it seems, immigrants not just struggle to find a job, keep it and to be understand, because of our "poor english".

It seems its us who have to do the work to be understood in so many levels, yes its a multicultural country and all that, but in a multicultural country dont the "hosts" dont have to do some work too?? But as i was saying I worked once in a company, a famous one in fact proud of its, open to debate, "equality" where most of the leaders were white canadians, employers in fact did the easy job like helping costumers, while the new canadians with their poor english and hard work, stayed on the back producing and while we on the back were expected more and more, often even doing the work on the group of canadians, the leadership never took notice of the difference of treatment.

I applyed several times to places like HMV, Rogers Video, StarBucks, Fundraising and I didnt understood why i didnt fet the job, well, take some time to visit and notice I realized why, who work on this places are Canada born people while fluently speaking and cool atitude candians have, of course me or any other new canadian/immigrant will never  get that job, the answer is right in front of you. Then I have to ask what are the policies of this companies about the people they hire?? are they so specific that goes to the point of the hired being a immigrant or canadian born?..or maybe whos to blame its the leadership, that chooses the easier way, buy hiring people that they dont have to strugle to understand....so maybe its not the difficulty of the job, but some obvious preference on those companies, that dont seem very canadianm isnt it!!!

But if I want to work on Macdonals, Superstore or Burguer King where the conditions, lets say are more EXPLOITIVE, the process of hiring, and work demand wont compare with the previous companies that I said above, because being a canadian born sure brings great advantages and who get the crapy job and have to show we are at the same level as canadians?? we are, the new immigrants!!

Yes we came a long way from the past experiences of Immigration, but we are still a long way to go and for that the system must change and w






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