[crushkerry]

You would think this was a joke or parody. But it's not.

But like we said over at www.anklebitingpundits.com:

You can't make this stuff up folks. The rest of the article has some amazing stuff about just how little French workers actually work, and how much they bi#ch about what little time they do work. No wonder one Paris daily newspaper had the headline: "The French Don't Want To Work" It really is a must-read article, if only to see just how coddled these whiners are.

Meanwhile let us suggest a new "holiday" for the French: "Get Off Your Lazy A$$es And Get To Work Day".

[crushkerry]

Ping.

[solitas]

...sounds like a lot of the semi-sentients that I work with.

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

Have you ever heard Dave Beck's parody "I Love the French"? What a hoot!

[jocon307]

"Get Off Your Lazy A$$es And Get To Work Day".


Amen brother, make it July 15th. After that one year when they let all their grandmothers and grandfathers die, because they couldn't bestir themselves from the sea shore.

Sheesh, maybe all the good white people already came over here and those that remain (with the exception of my one beloved baby in London, England) should just get taken over by the Muslims.

Hey, the Muslims don't do a lick of work either! Soon only the Americans, Chinese, and Indians will be doing any damn work at all.

Good for us, and let the rest rot.

[elli1]

Plans for the solidarity fund arose after the brutal heat wave of 2003, when the government decided to sacrifice the Pentecost Monday holiday for the greater good. The holiday, which this year falls on May 16, has effectively been converted into an unpaid working day, with salaries - even from private companies - turned over to the government and channeled into a special fund.

That would be proximately like the US gov't telling all US workers to give up Good Friday holiday, work that day AND turn all the wages for that day over to the US gov't to be channeled into another social program.

I'd suggest that whoever bashes the French on this point should turn in their FR card and march over to DU.

[Comstock1]

OK, something I never thought I would do--I"m about to defend the French.

This isn't funny. The way I read it, I can't distinguish between what the French government is doing and slavery. They are requiring workers to work a holiday that was not traditionally worked and the employers are to turn all wages over to the government.

If this were voluntary it would be OK--but these people are going in to Renault or Le Creuset (sp?) and working and not getting paid.

I think most would gladly volunteer these wages to help the elderly survive those brutal< /s > Paris summers. But being forced to do it without a choice? I don't think so.

The last time I looked this kind of thing was called tyranny.

[Ciexyz]

btt

[Lazamataz]

"One minute and 52 seconds doesn't seem like much but it still adds up to 7 or 8 hours a year that would not be paid," said Grégory Roux, secretary of the railroad workers division of the CGT, one of France's largest unions.

France is utterly insane.