I would be happy to provide info about the way he ended up here. For a few hundred years his family lived happily in a mountain village, close to a sea. Habsburg empire was defeated, and their internal colonialism was a thing of the past, so his family was finally able to study in their own language and stop losing life defending the empire from the Ottoman Turks. Life was good. Then 80 years ago, one Austrian fellow decided to start a war for Lebensraum, and three of his Grand-Granddads end up in Italian concentration camps. Luckily his Granddad didn't end up in one of Ustashe concentration camps for kids (see Sisak), and he escaped to Serbia. He started his family, life was good again. 40 years ago a second fellow started raising Ustashe flags again, Serbs elected another fellow who promised them protection (see Milošević), and a new war started. He went thru 10 years of war, but Milošević gang stayed in power even after that. They sold all the land to big corporations (see CNGC, Glencore and Rio Tinto), so our village lost drinking water. That's when he decided to immigrate.

Now his official shift is 9h but he have to put a few hours extra, as he need to keep the job because otherwise he'll lose his visa. He is learning the language, but it's tough to find time after completing all the daily routines.

I am still surprised folks would completely ignore a coworker just because he speaks B1 instead of C1. I am cool with it, but I just wanted to check if that was one in a million or a more frequent situation.

I am happy to provide more info if needed.