OMG, I just though of another one, but I'm sure I'm the only person on here who has to deal with this crap...
In Quebec, we have the language police (I'm not even joking, welcome to my world). Now, you have to understand that while Quebec is a part of Canada, the gov't here likes to think that Quebec is it's own country, we have different laws and different rules that make things stupidly complicated. Canada has two official languages, french and english. Officially, so does Quebec, but most of the french canadians are arrogant ****s (some of my own family included) who think that anyone who speaks english should be shipped out of their 'country', and that Quebec is french and if you want to speak english, get the h*ll out of Quebec. We are allowed to have english on signage, like restaurants, or whatever, but you have to have the same thing written in french, the french lettering has to come first, and MUST be bigger lettering than the english. On top of that, lots of street names and company names had to be changed because they were english. I think the only exceptions were if your product name is licensed in english. For example, Tim Horton's cannot be changed, but they took off the 's. Or in McGibbons irish pub, they had vintage irish signage inside their bar for decoration and the OLF was after them because their signs didn't respect the rules... There are TONS of things like that, every week there's some OLF dude making a stink about something or other.
Plus if you immigrate here, you DO NOT have the option of sending your children to english school. Even if you were born here, if you went to french school, you CAN NOT send your children to english school.
Something else that bothers me. If I go to a store and speak english to the sales person, I expect them to be able to answer me in english (it is mandatory to learn english in school after all),likewise, if I speak french to the person, I expect to be answered in french. You want to work in the public in a bilingual area, learn the bloody language, otherwise you shouldn't get hired in the first place. Nothing bothers me more than asking a question and have the person go "what? I don't understand french/english"
Especially since the question is usually about their product or merchandise, so even if their second language skills are a little rusty, they should still know enough to be able to sell their own product, duh!
BTW, english is not my first language either.