Toyota vs GM: just for laughs

[Kal-El]

I work from 8 am-9:30 pm 5 days a week and still can't pay all the bills.

It is true that Americans actually work among the most amount of hours per year.

In many European countries, such as Germany, they work only 32 hours a week (that's full time for them) and have like 6-8 weeks of vacation.

Many Americans are lucky to get 1 week off a year.

[frownonfun]

Originally Posted by Kal-El

I work from 8 am-9:30 pm 5 days a week and still can't pay all the bills.

It is true that Americans actually work among the most amount of hours per year.

In many European countries, such as Germany, they work only 32 hours a week (that's full time for them) and have like 6-8 weeks of vacation.

Many Americans are lucky to get 1 week off a year.

yeah i don't wanna turn this into a me complaining about my job thread, cuz i like my job. but i don't get any paid days off. nada. vacations i take cost me not only for the vacation but for the time i miss from work. something is wrong with that. who does get paid vacations though? the people on top. the ones getting rich off the peons like me.

also when i lived in england... it seemed that people never worked. shops closed at like 2 or 3 in the afternoon and restaurants were open only during evening hours. finding a 24 hour store seemed like a rarity. it was weird to me. it's like no one worked that long at all. yet the uk seems to be managing just fine. or no worse than us anyway.

it seems to me we lag behind other countries in many many ways these days yet we work more than anyone else in the world. what's up with that?

[GeneW]

Originally Posted by frownonfun

it seems to me we lag behind other countries in many many ways these days yet we work more than anyone else in the world. what's up with that?

We have military personnel in over 100 nations, a thirteen carrier group Navy, thousands of warheads, two small wars and millions of people under arms.

Being the Planet's Policeman is not cheap.

Gene

[GeneW]

Originally Posted by Kal-El

I work from 8 am-9:30 pm 5 days a week and still can't pay all the bills.

It is true that Americans actually work among the most amount of hours per year.

In many European countries, such as Germany, they work only 32 hours a week (that's full time for them) and have like 6-8 weeks of vacation.

Many Americans are lucky to get 1 week off a year.

Germany's economy contracted last year and will contract still further in 2009. Their "social welfare" system is VERY expensive. We'll see how long they keep on getting those two months a year off for "holiday" while people in Asia work seven day weeks, live in dormitories and eat two meals a day until they burn out, get fired and are replaced by eager people from the countryside.

Gene