<p>so i’ve just started a new job. Officially, the position only requires me to know english and when i interview for this job, i told them that i only knew english. </p>
<p>My work is done in english but there are other people in my group who speak both french so the group meetings are sometimes in french. I don’t know french so and i’m wondering if my job is at risk??</p>
<p>any advice?</p>
<p>You should just ask… Even if by asking you risk your job, you’re already in trouble if the meetings are in a language you don’t understand.</p>
<p>They’re not going to fire anybody for not knowing French. Talk to your supervisor/manager and let them know that you feel uncomfortable at meetings where they’re speaking French, and one of two things will happen: either they will start speaking English, or they’ll let you skip the meetings (and maybe read a trascript afterwards).</p>
<p>My freshman year RA got fired from his first job after 3 weeks for being a d-bag. If the job doesn’t require french and you did not misrepresent yourself, you should be fine. If they do fire you it will probably be for some other reason.</p>
<p>Go ahead and start learning the language anyway. It will show dedication and sounds like it would be useful in your situation.</p>
<p>Off topic, I once sat near my brother-in-law while he was on a conference call that was in french, german, and english simultaneously.</p>