Low pay, for a long time, refers to the lives of many workers of Mexico

One of my favorite things about the TV show “Downton Abe” is the feature of its floor/below. Once, it is a period of time that the trials and tribulations of a rich family are not alone. About the lives of the vast employees who run the house – workers who have long allowed the rich families to live in the way they have done with their fierce social expectations and customs.

Just think about the simple habit of changing dinner, for example: first, you need someone to create your clothes. Someone should wash your clothes and make sure they both dry and press when you want to wear. You or your personal employee need to make sure someone is placed in your clothes where you can find them. For most of the era, you need someone to decorate you.

As an American citizen in Mexico, I am part of the “floor” crowd. I don’t help people park their cars and I don’t drive anyone in a taxi or spacecraft. I will not clean up after the parties went home, and I did not hand them over to the newly washed and folded clothes. I have not asked people that I can get them from a position on the market, and I am not confirming the presence of the toilet paper in the caby bathroom.

In short, I always serve, never server.

However, my partner is not. He grew up like many people from the small towns and cities here: a mother raised three children and sends money from hard work in the United States. According to Mexican standards, they lived enough. With US standards, it is basically poverty.

He did not go to restaurants and saved on very special occasions. He did not see a movie in a theater until he almost finished with the elementary school. Air conditioning is practically unheard of in his hot tropical city. He and his siblings were responsible for keeping the house clean and washing clothes.

Although they all go to college and get stable and middle class jobs, the luxuries given to them only refer to the experiences of “upstairs” from time to time.

Mexico may have a reputation for a very relaxed lifestyle, but Mexican works more than any other OECD nation. When spoken Reducing the Work WeekIt currently operates for most people from Monday to Saturday, the realities of the low wage and the high costs of this economy are inappropriate.

If you are working in a wider informal field, for example, that labor rules will not be implemented anyway. For the proper sector, in the meantime, he knows: If you want to feed your family, do what you have to do.

Mexico clearly makes it clear that many of us do not want to admit to the north of the border: hard work is only tied to customs for gain – with about a million caution.

Being with my partner has allowed me to see the “down” of Mexican experience. Tourists may have a good meal and then wander back to their hotel rooms, but the workers who serve them often stay till 3am before they go to their lowest life quarters of kilometers.

The reason I recently seen this is that my partner’s current work is to manage a restaurant. Because it is very difficult to fill up positions, he does the job of two to three people simultaneously and he runs the place where he should oversee. He works for about 80 hours per week, often before sleep and meals. If things do not improve soon, he will look for something else, but as people often say here: What’s what is. (This is available.)

I did not write this to anyone to feel bad for enjoying themselves in Mexico. A job is a job, we all do what we can and try to relax once. One of the things I recognize and proud about my own culture is, in fact, most people are very reasonable.

But the presence of a pre-line seat for these jobs has given me a different perspective. Most people do everything they can, because there are not a lot of money turns. Despite that low income, they are still friendly and humorous.

My partner And The employees sing along with the paid actors while working. Who gets to wash the dishes. Even on holidays like Christmas and New Year, they are, usually without extra pay (Christmas Day and New Year’s Day holidays, people in the restaurant industry are not “Eves”).

A lot of things do not work and the funds are not available to work. It is very difficult for Americans, in particular, to understand, I think, because we are very accustomed to the things they act on the way they want. However, most of the businesses here are running on thin edges. In any case, the owners always say.

One of the many street hackers I communicate – of course the same person who holds the same punishment – I hear “Crazyas”, and they are “okay, a good day!” They will respond. They make jokes: “These are stolen, but they are real!”

Good comedy helps for things, but this is not an alternative to a living, which allows you to sleep and eat well. I often wonder if the workers on the other side of the border will improve their conditions.

For now, there are less probabilities to sharply improve one’s financial opportunities, but no place for a labor revolution seems to be the first.

There is a song written by the best Belgian singer Strome about workers. The main chorus, roughly – I will not speak French – “We celebrate for those who can’t celebrate.”

So the next time you go out, you will lift a mirror for those who make your time possible. This is not the wage hike they need, but it is still a long way to know what they are appreciated.

Sarah Devris A writer and translator of Varagruz’s Salaba. Can access her through her website, Sarahvris.Sapstag.com.