Emilios bar

"hi, having just read the october edition of jobs abroad, i would like to advise you not to carry on advertising the job at emilios bar, Spain.

I worked there last summer 2003, after finding the job through the book 'Summer Jobs Abroad 2003'. Although i enjoyed the job very much initially, i soon found out that the owner, emilio is a manipulative con man. Although the pay, 100 euros, was expected, i did also expect tips. Emilio asked all us waitresses to put the tips in a tin which he would count and share accordingly. I soon came to realise that he was taking a share too and although i suggested many times that we just keep our own tips, he always got verbally aggressive.

Emilio only employs girls, which is customary in Spain, but he tried to come on to all of us after closing, even telling us about his intentions to use the bar for special customers only after 4am, with us dancing etc for the men. This would not really have been a problem had he not started to get very nasty and cynical as he could see I did not want to do this.

I lived in the appartment he provides, yet this became very difficult as he was watching my every move from his house nearby, even trying to tell me that no one could come to my appartment.

All this might seem very trivial but i just feel that he is taking advantage of young girls because he knows he can manipulate them as they need the job. In the end i quit because emilio was a control freak who got nasty when i didnt play happy.

It is a risk when you take on a bar job in another country when you don't really know that much about it, so i wanted to make sure that no other english girl will have an upsetting experience like i did.

thankyou,
Laura Bargery"

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