Living in a 5 o'Clock world

[lib2DaBone]

Read an article today that shows where Europe works 30 hours a week and takes 8 weeks vacation. (more hours worked in the U.S. does not seem translate into improved productivity)

Could it be.. that Corporations... are working us like a 'Rented Mule'...?

We work, we slave... We hope for a glimpse of happiness.. So why are we doing this? Where is the Up-Side? Trading my time for the pay I get.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXKRwqBmC4A

[MrPerson]

1. Do you have a link to the article?

That sounds like we should do that here.

[lib2DaBone]

2. Hate to interrupt a good rant... here's one link

.. it was all over he media this weekend...http://www.nber.org/papers/w11278

[stray cat]

3. Work less work all - one way to lower unemployment is to cap hours - ie forcing part time employment

like those in companies that are taking cuts in hours and consequently pay to keep coworkers employed

[LostInAnomie]

4. I've always said that the work day should be reduced to 6 hrs.

It would open up a 4th shift and allow the opportunity for more people to work.

[Doremus]

5. I don't know how productivity is over there, but here it's off the charts.

And yet wages for the people who are 100% responsible for it -- us, the poor working stiffs -- have declined.

Guess who pockets all that extra profit? (Hint: it's not us!!!) :mad:


We need a revolution I tell ya!

[rrneck]

6. Yep.

How do you think they got all that fucking money?

George Grosz. Eclipse of Sun. 1926. Oil on canvas. 210 x 184 cm. Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY, USA