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I particularly love this one:
In Europe, a lot of young people have part-time jobs from around the age of 16, so when they come over at 18 or 20 they have already got quite a bit of work experience.
Replace 'In Europe' with 'Among the working classes,'.
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That's not going to work if you include the rest
They understand that if work starts at nine, you turn up at five to nine. We end up doing quite a lot of life-skills training for people who have been brought up in the UK.”
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In Europe, a lot of young people have part-time jobs from around the age of 16, so when they come over at 18 or 20 they have already got quite a bit of work experience.
For whatever reason there has been a shift in the UK with teenagers much less likely to have part-time jobs these days than they would 20-30 years ago. Part of that might be because there is a lot more pressure at school than there used to be. I think that is bad all round.
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Replace 'In Europe' with 'Among the working classes,'.
Really?
All the French kids I knew when I was younger had part time jobs regardless of class. And it's not like France doesn't have a class based society. In the UK that definitely wasn't the case.
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I particularly love this one:
In Europe, a lot of young people have part-time jobs from around the age of 16, so when they come over at 18 or 20 they have already got quite a bit of work experience.
Replace 'In Europe' with 'Among the working classes,'.
I suspect your understanding is intuitively right given your experience; whenever an employer sounds off about EU workers, it usually comes across to me as 'the supply of workers from the EU is very convenient for me'.
I can't speak for all of Europe, but in Germany there's a three-tier school system. Those who leave school at 15, from the 'lowest' school tier, which is called "Hauptschule" or 'main school', will either start work without getting any subsequent qualifications, or go on to the second tier, "Realschule", do their equivalent of GCSEs, and start an apprenticeship (hard to get in some industries, easier in others), as will most of those who've been in the Realschule all along, although some will go on to the "Gymnasium", the 'highest' tier, and do the equivalent of A-levels, afterwards either studying or going on to an apprenticeship.
Very few young people from any type of school will have a 'part-time job', strictly speaking. Many will have summer jobs, but that's not the same. Those who have gone into jobs withoput qualifications will most probably work full-time. Those who do an apprenticeship will for the most part also do it full-time, it being a mixture of working in the company to which they are apprenticed and school work at the professional school.
By the age of 18 or 19, many young people will have completed their three-year apprenticeship and will be in full-time work, including in the hospitality industry. Their work experience will be as a result of their full-time apprenticeship, and they'll naturally be more skilled than people who have no recourse to such a system. Imperfect though it is, it's a lot better than parachuting people into jobs without that support.
Apprenticeships cost companies and the government money, so Ms British Hotel Owner will benefit from the German and perhaps other governments having spent money on young people that she doesn't have to invest any more, whether she pays them well or not.
I have no idea what the system is like in Poland, but I'm sure there are similar ways in which people acquire skills that British business owners can then use. /csb
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Yeah, I think you're looking at that through (let's say) a very particular lens; possibly 'I bet she voted Brexit so she can fuck off', but perhaps look at what she actually said (my bold)
"Palmer says it’s difficult to distinguish what is Brexit and what is the pandemic: “It’s just all come together in one mighty swirl of a disaster zone.”"
"“when actually no one truly knew what the outcome would be. It was a bonkers thing to go to a referendum on""
“There is no chance we would be where we are now without the skills of people coming from other countries.”
"we’re pretty hot on the work-life balance, and the life part is pretty fun, with beaches and surfing. So it’s always been attractive for hospitality team members from across Europe.”
"Workers came from all over: Spain, Italy, France, Poland, Romania, Estonia, sometimes whole families. Some came for just a summer, to practise their English; others came over and settled. They brought experience with them, says Palmer. “They have a greater understanding of what our European guests want, and a skill level you don’t always see in UK hospitality workers. In Europe, a lot of young people have part-time jobs from around the age of 16, so when they come over at 18 or 20 they have already got quite a bit of work experience. They understand that if work starts at nine, you turn up at five to nine. We end up doing quite a lot of life-skills training for people who have been brought up in the UK.”
"She thinks her business will survive, by looking hard at costs, but that some hotels won’t and that it’s going to be incredibly tough for the industry."
Yes, I think your reading of the article is pretty simplistic. 'Apparently decent business owner relates economic realities of multiple converging adverse events on her sector' seems closer to the mark. But then she's "posh" so fuck her eh?