diversity... In the workplace ,,,oh yeah, we have that..NO CHOICE

In the workplace that I am familiar with is based on a civil service job, which is one from the get go is test based.Nobody gets into a job of this magnatude with the good ole boy system or having a relative in an influential position. Primarily, this makes most civil service related jobs very diverse and it is reflective in how we deal with one another.Many of the Fire Stations in Laredo have a shift Captain who governs all the little attitudes that his subordinates have towards one another; which includes himself at times. We all have very diffrent backgrounds,with guys from as far North as Massachusettes to as far south as being born in Mexico and becoming Naturalized citizens and Ultimately becoming Firemen through the proper process of test elimination through our physical agility tests,background, and battery of psychological tests that are designed to weed out unfavorable characteristic types of candidates. In the end we all have a common purpose at the end of the day and that is to pool all of our knowledge to reach a common goal for the sake of the commmunity which pays us. I wanna say ettiquette is usually the biggest deal for the guys and that is just because we all acknowledge that working along a border city that Spainish is going to be the predominant language spoken by evryone we come across. So when the Guys from up North start barking at the native Laradoans on Sunday who want to watch soccer; while they want to watch NFL Football, all I can do is laugh and find a corner to sleep.FYI>>> there are several tv's to settle these little diffrences,but without those diffrences then we could not have diversity.