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Draconian vacation policies for US slave workers
"The Reid" wrote in message ... Following up to Al Czervik All this without realizing the French work 35 hours a week, get three weeks off per year, and take two hours off at lunch to DRINK. Yeah, that's stupid all right. America *is* Number One -- in hours worked per person per week. French unemployment rate: 10% US unemployment rate: 5% that's part of the mentality that says US must be right because its "richer" so lets all flog ourselves to death to own three cars and a load of useless stuff rather than have a good work life balance. Ultimately your competing with the Chinese with no leave, are you looking forward to celebrating 2% unemployment and no days off at all? -- Mike Reid Shetland, Yell and Unst Nobody is forced to work as an employee in the US. People are free to start their own businesses if they think they can do better. |
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Draconian vacation policies for US slave workers
Stan de SD wrote:
Nobody is forced to work as an employee in the US. People are free to start their own businesses if they think they can do better. If they aren't skilled enough to find employment with benefits while working for someone else, are they really skilled enough to do it on their own? |
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Draconian vacation policies for US slave workers
Following up to Stan de SD
that's part of the mentality that says US must be right because its "richer" so lets all flog ourselves to death to own three cars and a load of useless stuff rather than have a good work life balance. Ultimately your competing with the Chinese with no leave, are you looking forward to celebrating 2% unemployment and no days off at all? Nobody is forced to work as an employee in the US. People are free to start their own businesses if they think they can do better. whoosh!!!! -- Mike Reid Walk-eat-photos UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Walk-eat-photos Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |
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The Reid wrote: Following up to Stan de SD that's part of the mentality that says US must be right because its "richer" so lets all flog ourselves to death to own three cars and a load of useless stuff rather than have a good work life balance. Ultimately your competing with the Chinese with no leave, are you looking forward to celebrating 2% unemployment and no days off at all? Nobody is forced to work as an employee in the US. People are free to start their own businesses if they think they can do better. whoosh!!!! I think you missed a chunk yourself. Note that I can own 3 cars and a lot of stuff that I want (never mind if *you* or someone else thinks it's useless) while having a great work/life balance. A couple of months vacation a year. Or more. 40 hour work weeks generally. More time with my family than at work. You have been reading too many issues of the World Worker's Daily. |
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Following up to Tchiowa
I think you missed a chunk yourself. Note that I can own 3 cars and a lot of stuff that I want (never mind if *you* or someone else thinks it's useless) what you probably don't get is that that lifestyle isnt supportable. We need to consume less, work less and pollute less, its not really anything to do with what I think is useless. -- Mike Reid Walk-eat-photos UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Walk-eat-photos Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |
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Draconian vacation policies for US slave workers
On 17 Jul 2006 19:20:27 -0700, "Tchiowa" wrote:
The Reid wrote: Following up to Stan de SD that's part of the mentality that says US must be right because its "richer" so lets all flog ourselves to death to own three cars and a load of useless stuff rather than have a good work life balance. Ultimately your competing with the Chinese with no leave, are you looking forward to celebrating 2% unemployment and no days off at all? Nobody is forced to work as an employee in the US. People are free to start their own businesses if they think they can do better. whoosh!!!! I think you missed a chunk yourself. Note that I can own 3 cars and a lot of stuff that I want (never mind if *you* or someone else thinks it's useless) while having a great work/life balance. A couple of months vacation a year. Or more. 40 hour work weeks generally. More time with my family than at work. I think you've been tugging your weenie a bit too hard. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |
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Draconian vacation policies for US slave workers
The Reid wrote: Following up to Tchiowa I think you missed a chunk yourself. Note that I can own 3 cars and a lot of stuff that I want (never mind if *you* or someone else thinks it's useless) what you probably don't get is that that lifestyle isnt supportable. We need to consume less, work less and pollute less, its not really anything to do with what I think is useless. Consume less, maybe. Work less, absolutely not. That's the kind of thinking that destroys civilizations. And yes my lifestyle is completely supportable. People have been saying the US lifestyle isn't supportable for over half a century and we keep improving. |
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Draconian vacation policies for US slave workers
Tchiowa writes:
And yes my lifestyle is completely supportable. People have been saying the US lifestyle isn't supportable for over half a century and we keep improving. Any lifestyle is supportable if the population is not allowed to expand out of control. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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Following up to Tchiowa
what you probably don't get is that that lifestyle isnt supportable. We need to consume less, work less and pollute less, its not really anything to do with what I think is useless. Consume less, maybe. definitely Work less, absolutely not. That's the kind of thinking that destroys civilizations. We have to move from using productivity to create more stuff and pollution to using productivity to achieve efficiency and low pollution. We have to slow down, air travel alone threatens to destroy us if we allow it to grow as predicted. And yes my lifestyle is completely supportable. across the world it isn't, so unless you aim to find a way of stopping the new economies moving forward towards western levels, you have a problem. People have been saying the US lifestyle isn't supportable for over half a century and we keep improving. the future will prove you wrong, hopefully you will come to see your mistake as a country before its too late for everybody.. -- Mike Reid Walk-eat-photos UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Walk-eat-photos Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |
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Draconian vacation policies for US slave workers
Following up to Mxsmanic
And yes my lifestyle is completely supportable. People have been saying the US lifestyle isn't supportable for over half a century and we keep improving. Any lifestyle is supportable if the population is not allowed to expand out of control. to support the US lifestyle across the globe population will have to start falling fast. -- Mike Reid Walk-eat-photos UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Walk-eat-photos Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |
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