Mirko's Mill

The resounding of Moorish and Christian architecture, of Arab-style rounded and Gothic-style pointed arches paying a joint tribute to the Almighty, is a rare symphony to watch. It is possible to witness it in Andalusia though, the sunny land that, for centuries in the low through high middle age, has hosted Arab conquerers alongside Christian subjects, who waited until the thirteen century before claiming back the lands first seized by their Roman ancestors, while still coexisting for two-hundred long years with the last stronghold of their once invincible Muslim overlords, perched up in Granada, the last bulwark of the long lasting Moorish Mediterranean glory. A resistance to which the Alhambra monumental complex stands tall as an eternal, stone-made account on its hill. The guides toil at explaining visitors that the reason for such architectural choices were ingrained in the lack of economic means of the Christian conquerers: there was no possibility to tear everything down and rebu

During the summer season of 2023, we noticed that several customers found a lack of professionalism in my company's staff. So I wrote a blog post on my company's website to rebut the implications carelessly waived by some keyboard lions on the notorious TripAdvisor website.   Here, I take inspiration from that post to discuss more in-depth the problem of seasonal employees and the role of society in the shaping of this particular job market, trying to stress both the regime change which has been underway for a couple of decades and which was hugely accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic.  I hope I prove as skilled at pointing our blind spots as I will hopefully be in describing such dynamics.    Foreign presence in our staff: numbers and trends Let's start with some numbers. At the height of the season, the foreign presence in our staff, out of a total of 46 regularly employed people, was divided by nationality as follows: 13 Senegalese people (2 i