Stereotype: Speaking Mandarin

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a bit of disgust. The Manger overheard the conversation and said, "You can't speak Mandarin? Oh, that will be a problem here," with a slight tone of disappointment, I felt offended and was determined to keep the job to prove to them that even though I could not speak my mother tongue I would learn the ways around the kitchen. That task was a little more difficult than I had thought. Everything inside the kitchen were labelled in Chinese and the person trying to show me around knew very little about English and had a very strong Chinese accent, I felt a little out of place and disoriented but was eager to learn. I finally quit the job two weeks later and found another job within one of the fast food chains. Now my view of working in the real world is hard if you do not know what the job descriptions are thoroughly, I now ask and tell my employer what I know and what I need as assets for the job.
Later on I realized that the only reason I had received my first job was ...

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