French workers fight for the right to be lazy

[Atahualpa]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
There is no Finnish economy. The entire country gets by through sneaking across to Sweden and stealing shopping trollies and pets.

The award for the funniest post in this thread goes to you

[Kidlicious]

Come on Ozzy. School is not a real job. College is not even a job. Job = stress and responsibility.

[OzzyKP]

Oh please, I know jobs, and I know school. Jobs are easier.

School has no lack of stress and responsibility. Its all false, useless responsability/stress, but that doesn't change the fact that it exists and is important for school.

[Starchild]

Originally posted by Kidicious
Come on Ozzy. School is not a real job. College is not even a job. Job = stress and responsibility.

That says something about the standard of American higher education then cause damn hell, uni is stressing at the moment.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Starchild
That says something about the standard of American higher education then cause damn hell, uni is stressing at the moment.

Well it can be, but you can always take classes over. Jobs are for real.

[Ming]

College is difficult, and can be very stressing. However, once upon a time, my father gave me a piece of advice...

"Enjoy college while you are there... because once you graduate, you have to join the real world"

Unless you are doing brain dead work or manual labor, a job is harder and far more demanding and stressful than going to school.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Ehm, that's kinda of the point I was making. When you're working 20 hours a week (or as little as you can), you a working to live. When you are working 50+ hours a week (or as much as you can) you are living to work.Ehm, that's kinda of the point I was making. When you're working 20 hours a week (or as little as you can), you a working to live. When you are working 50+ hours a week (or as much as you can) you are living to work.

But you're not. Even working 50 hours a week you are working to live. I mean the only way you can be said to 'live to work' is if work takes up 50% of your time, which 50 hours a week definetly does not.

[Pekka]

This is very true.. besides, you can't 'screw up' in college like you can in real life. I mean, you screw up, well it happens. In business world you screw up, you might be responsible for it. The delivery is expected more, because it has real resources attached to it, where as in college you can.. experiment .

We did good sending people to Sweden in 70s for better job opportunities, it turns out it really worked out for the Swedes Things are again getting little hectic around here so I think we should send the second patch over there. This time we hope they are sober when they arrive, and that they are not armed.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

Ehm, that's kinda of the point I was making. When you're working 20 hours a week (or as little as you can), you a working to live. When you are working 50+ hours a week (or as much as you can) you are living to work.Ehm, that's kinda of the point I was making. When you're working 20 hours a week (or as little as you can), you a working to live. When you are working 50+ hours a week (or as much as you can) you are living to work.

I mean the only way you can be said to 'live to work' is if work takes up 50% of your time, which 50 hours a week definetly does not.

Read what I said again.


But 50 hours a week is close to half your time. 56 hours is the breaking point, when you are spending the equivelant of 8 hours of every day of the week working (with presumably 8 hours of sleep and 8 hours of leisure). Of course, it doesn't usually work that way - you're more likely to be spending 10 hours a day working only on the weekdays, in which case you are spending more than half your time working on more than half the days in the week, albeit with two days of no obligation.

[Vesayen]

The appeal of a 35 hour work week and a decent standard of living is...... tremendous.

I have an OVERWHELMING hatred of France and its people but this almost makes me want to move to France.... how is job stability there :?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
Would you like to see your father more, or is his cash an acceptable substitute?

I see him all the time. He gets home when I'm done with swim practice/homework.

Hell, during crew season I get home after he does.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by General Ludd
I thought you where a math wiz. Subtract 35 from 50, that's the difference.

Are you really this stupid or just trolling?

[Vesayen]

Is it wrong that all I want out of life is any 40 hour a week job that is a reasonable amount of labor and provides a reasonable standard of living :? I'd do ANY job if it pays decent and is DEPENDABLE... I really don't want to be sacked in 2 years because of corporate bull****.

Right now i'm pre-law.... .

[Imran Siddiqui]

Read what I said again.

It's bollocks, but I read it again just to please you . I'm sure Japher's dad can work much more (it's a law firm, there is always work).

But 50 hours a week is close to half your time.

But not there. Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and thermonuclear warfare.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


Are you really this stupid?

I'm not the one who's having trouble subtracting 35 from 50.