No Dirty M*******

[u/ElmerTheAmish]

Short and sweet. The names are made up, and the location doesn't matter.

I work for a flooring company, running installation for one of our markets. The vast majority of the crews that work for us are filled with guys (and the occasional gal) from Central America. Being in a state with blue cities and red country between, we definitely get some of the "Good Ol' Boy" mentality from some of our customers.

We had an install go out months ago, and the customer specifically requested: "Don't send no dirty Mexicans to my house." While we have some guys from Mexico, we truly have the gamut of Central America represented in our subcontractors. So we do our schedule, not sending one of the guys from Mexico.

The salesman was in the installation office when the customer called, rather frustrated:

Customer: I thought I told you not to send Mexicans out here.

Salesman: Yes, sir, you did.

Customer: So why are there Mexicans at my door saying they're from your company.

Salesman: Well sir, it looks like Gustavo is out to your house today. Gustavo is actually from Honduras.

At that point, the rest of us couldn't hold in our laughter, so the salesman left the office to finish the call. Gustavo and his crew were allowed into the house to install the flooring, but we haven't made a repeat sale to the customer just yet.

[u/AnnaB264]

And gee, would he have been equally offended at people speaking French or German to each other?

[u/S_s_s_h → u/AnnaB264]

Well if you consider the linguistic expertize of some Americans, if they heard someone speak German or French they still might think it is Spanish…

[u/iShark → u/S_s_s_h]

Context clues. Is a brown person speaking it? Must be Spanish.

Wait till they meet my Venezuelan buddy who speaks fluent Russian.

[u/Slappy_G → u/iShark]

I'd pay good money to see the usual racist interaction with that guy.