Here we have an incredible system. The year starts in January. Most of the population now adopts the Russian piss up that takes a good few days to get over. Around Easter we have the Passover . That is eight days of which we are off for two days and work half a day for the rest. Half the population have another day off . Beside the Passover we have Purim which is not a holiday but everyone is in fancy dress and do fuck all. After Passover we have two memorial days which most people take off and then Independence day, another holiday. After a month we have tabernacles which is a day off and a general excuse to work less as the kids are home . The kids break for July August so no one plans to do anything serious as this is the time for anual holidays. There are skeleton staffs for two months. Fortunately or unfortunately October sees the high holidays which is virtually a month that has loads of holidays and fuck all work. Nothing is ever done from the end of June till November. That brings through to December where we a combination of Chanuka and Christmas. Add to this that the younger maLes do a few weeks of reserve duty. I have lived in awe of our high level of skiving. I won't bore you with the fact that about 17% of males don't work at all as they are learning the intracies of how to be a penguin and pray fervently. I believe that most of their prayers,are that the other 80% are going to tell them to get a job. If anyone got to the end of this. You desrve a medal . Maybe you can hazard,a guess as to how we get by. And none of this alerts the fact that Bates is a cunt. On May 28, 2012 10:11 PM, "Damian Walsh" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 28th May is a "ferié" but its not "chomée" - which means that it's a > holiday but you have to work (and without being paid I add). Xmas day, New > Years day, 11 Nov and 14 July all on weekends - there's never a year when > all the holidays equate to days off. > > The 35 hour week, which transformed FR industrial performance for the > better (productivity & profits), has been seriously weakened and it's more > than 10 years since a company was prosecuted (at least visibly) for making > their workers work for more than 48hrs a week. In any case, in a country > where overtime is rarely paid, nobody bothers to count their hours anyway. > This actually explains the FR "productivity miracle" of the last 12 years - > we're working the same or slightly more than before but only getting paid > for a flat 35hs (+ 1 day free per year). > > I'm not complaining about FR, after all it pays for our enviable social and > economic model - but the UK could do just as well if people moved on from > their early 1980s complacency and realised that they have to up their game > a little bit. I've worked for 4 major international companies since the "35 > hr week" and it's still embarassing going to the UK with French colleagues > and hanging about for an hour waiting for people to turn up at 9, only for > them to all bugger off again at 5. > > Damian > > On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Alan Edgar <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Not sure where you get 6 from, Damian ! > > There are 4 this month alone (1st, 8th, 17th, 28th) and when you add > those > > to Xmas Day, New Years Day, Easter Monday, All Saints Day (1/11), > Armistice > > Day (11/11), Bastille Day (14/7) and Assumption (15/8) I make it 11. > > > > Even as a FOTL (Francophile on the list) those holidays plus the 35 hour > a > > week contracts French government workers enjoy means the question should > > actually be: > > > > Are the French just bloody workshy ? > > Cheers, > > > > Al > > > > ------- > > Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 11:36:34 +0200 > > From: Damian Walsh <[email protected]> > > To: leedslist <[email protected]> > > > > To change the subject - no wonder the UK is in double-dip recession. I've > > just seen that there are 9 public holidays in England this year. 9!! > that's > > 3 more than here in France, and France has the world's highest > productivity > > to justify its 6 public holidays. Are the English just bloody workshy? > > > > Damian > > > > ------------ > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: > http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] > > PETE CASS (1962 - 2011) Rest In Peace Mate > > _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] PETE CASS (1962 - 2011) Rest In Peace Mate
