They really don't wanna work

[stonebreakerwasgod]

PARIS (Reuters) - President Nicolas Sarkozy is trying to revamp France's 35-hour working week without picking a fight with trade unions by making it easier and more attractive for employees to work longer.

Introduced in 1998 when the opposition Socialists were in power, the 35-hour work week has been blamed by the ruling centre-right UMP and business for inflation, competitiveness problems, sluggish growth, and a host of other ills.

Sarkozy plans new blow to French 35-hour work week | International | Reuters

...and they really wonder why they are virtually irrelevent today?? Oh, I forgot, they are relevent when they continue to stab us in the back while secretly helping our enemies.

 

[GoshenGipper]

Most of them get the entire month of August off too for vacation.

 

[stonebreakerwasgod]

Good luck Sarkozy, the unions (God bless 'em) will fight you tooth and nail.

The sad fact: the French actually work more than Norwegian, Dutch, German, or Belgian people.

 

[SouthernIrish]

when i hear talk about year round school i say :talktohan

 

[stonebreakerwasgod]

Teachers are exempt. Year round sux big time.

 

[GoshenGipper]

Norwegian, Dutch, German

Yeah, but they have hotter women so it's ok. You can throw the Sweeds and the Danes in there too even though they're not on the list.

 

[stonebreakerwasgod]

I guess hookers get days off.

 

[Newc]

Hell yea...you ever tried hookin 40 hours a week?

 

[stonebreakerwasgod]

Only when I got out of school and had to start paying off my student loans.

 

[SoCalDomer]

so you defaulted on your loans huh? grin:

 

[stonebreakerwasgod]

Pretty much. I think I need to cash in some vbucks.

 

[Junkhead]

Hell, crap like that (and paying non-stop out of my ass for worthless health insurance) almost makes me want to move to Europe.

 

[GoshenGipper]

Hell, crap like that (and paying non-stop out of my ass for worthless health insurance) almost makes me want to move to Europe.

Yeah, but it's filled with Europeans.

 

[ShivaIrish]

Boy, not wanting to work more is such a crappy thinghwhateve

 

[marv81s]

that is why it is called work

gotta do what you gotta do to live, unless your a lazy shit and think the gov't should take care of you and I don't know about you all, but I don't think that is the gov't job to take care of me and/or my family, that is my responsibility

 

[ShivaIrish]

Work may be a necessary thing, but that doesn't mean people should mindlessly support the idea of work. For most people, there should be family time, time for self-enrichment, and relaxation and recreation.

I also think that if people want to work a whole bunch, and earn a whole bunch of money, go ahead (not that I advise that). We should live in a free country. I just don't think that the general populace should pay for it.

I think that maybe the general populace, in the form of taxes, perhaps should pay for people basic essentials to live--even if they don't work. But I'm not set on that at this point.

 

[kjones]

that is why it is called work

gotta do what you gotta do to live, unless your a lazy shit and think the gov't should take care of you and I don't know about you all, but I don't think that is the gov't job to take care of me and/or my family, that is my responsibility

Also, the gov't does such a GOOD job at the things they are in charge of, such as say, foreign policy, why don't we just let them run our homes as well!

 

[marv81s]

or better yet, lets have gov't run health care. That will work out great, i mean, look at how well Vets hospitals are run by the gov't.