This article presents the partial results of an ethno-sociolinguistic study conducted in a bilingual (English-French) workplace in New-Brunswick. We particularly focus on how speakers of the minority language, French, perceive their own language and that of others in order to see how language representations are intimately linked to language practices and, in this case, linguistic insecurity. This gives a better understand of what it means to be a “minority language speaker” in the workplace and, most of all, why it is essential to take in consideration the symbolic aspects of language in the analysis of sociolinguistic settings.