> It's English. I know that this could be enforced by my manager or HR, but would prefer to handle it in a more direct/personal manner. It probably should be.

> It's English. I know that this could be enforced by my manager or HR, but would prefer to handle it in a more direct/personal manner. It probably should be. I assume you're not the only English-only person in the office, and likely not the only person feeling uncomfortable. It's really not okay that they are deliberately cutting you out of import conversations. > Honestly though, there are a host of issues I've seen crop up across my org that I suspect are products of a weak engineering culture caused by our partially-distributed setup. I don't think we're ever going to switch to being completely co-located, but I do wonder if I would have a better experience working in either a completely IRL or completely remote team. Some will suggest that remote work is as (or more) productive as IRL work, but you're seeing a massive push to get people back into the office after the pandemic for a good reason. For example, it's bad enough that you are being left out of engineering conversations, but if you were all remote, you wouldn't even know there was a Mandarin only group chat for these things. I won't re-hash the point about remote management, but this situation you find yourself in should have been picked up and dealt with by an IRL manager. > Hadn't thought of this. I think they like me? But I guess both can be true. I mean that they would no longer have the 'inconvenience' of having to facilitate you in English at all. They would also not have to follow any English (Western) cultural norms in the office either.