Comments by "jorge luis barrios mur" (@jorgebarriosmur) on "VisualPolitik EN"
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@larryc1616 In touristic areas yes! (worked 11 years in a hotel reception, and there were days I didn`t speak a word in spanish). If you go inlands tend to younger people, more fluent sometimes, and don`t forget to carry a translator in your phone.
Also, I know teenagers (14-15 years, you know) who, as prank, sent tourists in the oposit direction, if asked for indications (nothing daengerous, but given that your holidays are limited in numbers, spending hours findig a place you had just at the next corner, can bee annoying). ANY hotel worker (and most of other profesionals) will gladly help you, even if you are not THEIR client.
Airbnb and similars have gotten lately a bad reputation here (acussed of taking homes that should be for natives, and making prices rise). Cruisers also (for all the disturbances their passengers cause when they appear, all of them, at the same time, at the same place).
Stick to a more traditional hotel (or pensions)- holiday-packages, and you will earn the gratitude of the locals (as this is what benefits them more in the long term).
Under the current circumstances, identify clearly as a canadian. Do it, even if you are from the US.......there are douchebags an troublemakers everywhere, even if there is only 1% of chanche finding one, why take the risk?
Of course, you can`t hide your nationality to your hotel staff, who will have to examine your passport in the check-in, but they are obliged to confidentiality by our personell-data-protection-laws, and would risk their jobs and hefty fines if they blabbered. Outside, get yourself a cap with a maple leaf and the word "CANADA" on it....... people will smile more, and you won`t have to answer unconfortable questions about your president, your sanity, your ability to think in general, what you were thinking about when you voted for him, or if you are aware where Spain is in a map........
And if you happen to come from the US, remember, we have universal healthcare. If you have a problem CALL THE FREAKIN AMBULANCE........
Enjoy your holidays!
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@jbtechcon7434 ......unless, of course, you cut unemployment-money, food-stamps, and social programs, forcing workers to accept this wages, that allow them barely to survive.
But I am sure, that`s not what your goverment is planning, right?
The only time I can recall the market having worked in favour of the labour-force, was after the black plauge, in the middle ages, when workers (overall skilled agriculturall workers) were so scarce (because most of them had died in the plauge and the following turmoil) that employers HAD to offer better salary and conditions, to convince the remaining workers to labour for them, and not for the count of the next valley (who ALSO risked to get ruined if HIS harvest wasn`t done, and so tried also to outbide his neighbour)
Otherwise, employers usually, either cut sociall benefits, to "encourage" the worker force to accept the given conditions, or simply rise the price of living acordingly to what they have to pay more (aka inflation), rendering the increased wages useless (because if your salary rises 30%, but you also have to pay 30% more money to get EXACTLY the same stuff and services you got before, you are basically, in the same place, and as screwed as before)
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