Chris,
Well said & distinctly more diplomatic than the reply I was contemplating.
Though "something of the Daily Mail" is a bit vicious... :-)
Regards from another 37 hour a week freeloader (shame we don't get all
those Spanish public holidays).
Martyn
Chris Barker wrote:
> 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.
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