VIRAL
An Andalusian nurse complains that he has been left without a place because he does not know Catalan and the networks ‘burn’: “Don’t come back”
Thousands of users reacted to the protest of this interim worker at Vall d’Hebron Hospital
Mundo Deportivo
Updated at 14/12/2024 11:49 CET
A good thing about social networks is that they serve as a yardstick to measure certain topics. A priori harmless interview, which seeks to criticize what seems to be an injustice, takes a 180-degree turn and makes the protagonist go from ‘victim’ to ‘executioner’. That is what happened this Friday on Twitter.
“I’m going back to Andalusia, I don’t have the strength to continue.” This is the headline of an interview published this Friday, December 13, in which Javier Gutiérrez, a nurse from Seville at the Vall d’Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, complained that he had been declared ‘unfit’ for the third time to obtain his position as a civil servant because he was not able to accredit a C1 level of Catalan.
“It’s totally frustrating. You come to feel inferior to Catalan-speaking health workers,” said the nurse in the interview. Javier has been working in Catalonia for 10 years, but that time has not been enough to be able to pass the Catalan exam that workers at the Catalan Health Institute (ICS) must take. “It was an exam for a journalist. It was totally out of place,” complained Gutiérrez.
The full interview, which features others ‘affected’ by this same problem, tries to point out an injustice. Presenting it, as explained in the article, as an “exclusionary condition” for health workers. But the networks did not take long to turn the tables, and responded with a barrage of criticism to those who participate in the interview.
“I have cured countless patients and I go home because they force me to say ‘pa amb tomàquet’ when I order breakfast,” said one user ironically. “In jobs in the public administration it is something normal, logical and coherent. Maybe the problem is the lack of attitude, reluctance, disinterest and believing that they are above the rest,” said another. “Throw and don’t come back,” said another.