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Originally posted by 3SOT3RIC0
Sorry just read my post realized i left out the fact that i can pretty much write my own schedule at new job depending on due date of parts. Not braggin just really enjoying at least that aspect of the job. Trust me the rest of it sucks most of the time. I need to start buying lottery tickets
Originally posted by NoJoker13
reply to post by Rodinus
35-45 hours of work? You mean the average American work week? French work forces dwindled when they had to attempt this? LOL
Originally posted by Ismail
reply to post by jibeho
The rights that you openly scoff at were fought for by the french workers, and they were paid for in blood.
You seem proud that your wife works 12 hours a day. Do you understand how pathetic that sounds ? In a few decades you'll be dead, and you will have achieved what ? Money ? That's paper. Social status ? Can't take that with you either. I fail to see what work ethic-related satisfaction could possibly make up for the extra hours that I spend with my loved ones, as opposed to mindlessly grinding away like a good little economic cog.
Being called "lazy" by brainwashed worker-ants like yourself is akin to a compliment.
Originally posted by Malynn
lol Listen to all this Xenophobia and Bigotry. Do Americans work hard? Yes, they're very good little cogs in the wheel. Do the French work hard? I'm sure they do, but they haven't lost sight of the important things in life either.
Hilarious how people assume that just because you don't work like a mindless zombie that you take handouts from the government. Hilarious how people who don't know any better assume socialism = everything for free on the government dime.
Originally posted by Billmeister
The anti-union propaganda machine is very well-oiled.
The people who own the media outlets are on the "same team" as the industrialists, and so the myth gets so consistently shoved down our throats that some people actually start believing them.
It is sad to see that people will fight amongst each other to level things down... wages, quality of life, number of leisure hours etc...
It all boils down to class warfare, but, sadly, some people just can't see it. And believe me, you are NOT on "their" team.
Remember when technological advances were supposed to improve quality of life by reducing work hours? Instead, they reduced the quantity of workers and increased the profit margin of the 0.1%.
How average citizens can fall for the propaganda spewed out by industrialists who were only too glad to dynamite miners in the shafts and hire militias to shoot at workers asking for decent wages is beyond me.
Originally posted by NoJoker13
reply to post by Rodinus
I commented on the article so I'm wondering what exactly is constructive for this debate? I don't see much of one and commented, again, on the article in subject. Also if making the French workforce look bad brings more jobs to the states then I suppose the smear campaign works. Kindest Regards, the guy who could give a # about the French workforce.edit on 21-2-2013 by NoJoker13 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by aLLeKs
I saw this today in a German newspaper... and it did not suprise me. I have travelled a lot through France, I have many friends there.. but they are kind of lazy.
Sometime I feel like I am completely out of this world as a German. France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece... somehow the whole mentality and the whole life style is so... hmm how to say it without hurt some feelings?... relaxed? This is why it will never work out with the euro
The only place I have been which is even more strict and controlled than Germany is Japan.