"Is a lie!": the outburst of indignation of a young man in La Sexta for how a hotelier talks about the sector

This Saturday, March 18, the team of The Sixth Explica He has taken to the streets to ask both hoteliers and waiters about the situation in the sector. The first have pointed to the difficulties of finding workers; the latter, to the working conditions offered. In this way, the debate has moved to the set, where the owner of a local and a young man have staged a tense clash.

Lamia Talbi Lahnaoui, owner of the Luna Egipcia restaurant, has pointed out the case of the Costa del Sol, the place where her business is located, in high season: “There we have an added plus, which is the extra. There are people who do not want to work as an extra. As it is not a job for the whole year, it does not generate peace of mind and permanence. We have seen this phenomenon from the pandemic onwards. In the past, we had workers and everything was fine.”

Lamia: “The mentality of young people has changed. Before, we worked to have our own home”

“And what has changed?” José Yélamo wanted to know. The businesswoman has alluded directly to young people: “Her ideology has changed. Before, we worked and our obsession was to have our own house. We worked whatever it took to have that house, then a summer house and then change the car. Young people today don’t want to, I say it with total respect”.

Immediately, Lahnaoui has received the reply of the actress Romana Flores, who had serious problems finding a job: “When I was 18 years old and I started working while studying, I found that bars needed experience. If I’m 18 years old and I’ve been studying since I was three, I haven’t had time to get it.”

However, the most emphatic response would come from Juan Antonio Báez, vice president of the Youth Council: “Now it is the youth who are to blame for the fact that the hotel industry pays badly, hires badly, does not quote the hours they have to quote. That they exploit you and want to have slavery in the 21st century when it was abolished in the 19th century. The youth is not to blame.”

After Báez received resounding applause from the public present at the setLamia has explained: “Forgive me. I believe that this gentleman has gone for a subject that I have not even named. Young people are not to blame, the thinking of young people has changed with the pandemic.”

Not even remotely Juan Antonio was going to buy this argument: “Youth cannot be emancipated with temporality as it is. One in four young people are at risk of poverty. That is because of romanticizing precariousness and saying that young people do not want to do anything. Is a lie!”. “No lie”, the hotelier has refuted, letting it fall that young people do not want to accept certain conditions of the sector, such as “working on weekends or in August” or going out “at so many at night”.

This Saturday, March 18, the team of The Sixth Explica He has taken to the streets to ask both hoteliers and waiters about the situation in the sector. The first have pointed to the difficulties of finding workers; the latter, to the working conditions offered. In this way, the debate has moved to the set, where the owner of a local and a young man have staged a tense clash.