Olympus-OM
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [OM] Working hours

Subject: Re: [OM] Working hours
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 06:26:38 +0100
John

I don't know who has rattled your chain this time, but I do believe  
that there is something of the Daily Mail about your comments.  I  
expect that you have spent very little time in Europe since you  
emigrated and that makes you ill-equipped to comment on how Europeans  
as a whole go about their business, whether in the public or private  
sectors.

But why comment at all?  If one of us were a millionaire who didn't  
need to work would you comment on that individual's good fortune or  
would you grumble that "real contributors" don't have time for  
photography?

I suggest that you might regard it as their own business and keep your  
own counsel ...

Chris

On 3 May 2009, at 02:02, John Hudson wrote:

> Ken .......... you have not been to Europe in the past several years.
>
> Our Iberian based correspondent enjoys what, 7 weeks of annual  
> vacation,
> plus upwards of 30 days of stat holidays per year, and a 37.5 work  
> week all
> of which boils down to next to nothing of working hours a year.
>
> Hereabouts a real contributor to the economy would be pushing 70+  
> hours a
> week with 3 week max of annual vacation and maybe 6 or 7 days of stat
> holidays a year at the max. The idea of greater European  
> productivity is a
> piece of complete fiction.

-- 
_________________________________________________________________
Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus
Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/
Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Sponsored by Tako
Impressum | Datenschutz