Nashton
2/12/2012 11:48:00 AM
On 12-02-12 7:38 AM, Agamemnon wrote:
> "allo"<hahaha@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:jh7keb$1cf1$1@adenine.netfront.net...
>> Let face it. the reality is these southern European people are lazy.
>>
>> I was told when one foreign company imported foreign Chinese workers to
>> work in Greece, Italy and Portugal, the local workforce complained to the
>> their governments that foreign workers should not be allowed to work 12
>> hours a day 6 days a week. In addition, foreign workers are also forbidden
>> to live in dormitories or within the work premises.
>
> Whoever told you that is a liar since those working hours are illegal under
> EU law.
>
>>
>> If follow the local working standards it means work could start only after
>> 9 am, or worse 11 am, then comes the 3 hour lunch as well as "afternoon
>> nap", and real work is from 4 pm to 9pm.
>>
>> In addition, there also many holidays and local workers like to take sick
>> leave. When pay day comes and they will collect their salaries and not
>> show up.
>>
>> Civil servants are even worse. They either don't turn up on the last day
>> of the week or come at 2 pm and leave at 5 pm. And this is a 5 day work
>> week. In France, even on 35 hour work week, many only work 3 days a week
>> and don't bother to show up because no one track headcount.
>>
>> In the end, their laziness seems to have morphed into a form of "culture"
>> and if the think drinking wine, smoking and partying is good the economy,
>> they truly deserve more austerity because most of these workers are
>> overpaid for doing very little. Greece don't even export olive oil any
>> more because no one like to be a farmer.
>>
>> In contrast, the northern European work ethics and culture is something to
>> emulate. The Germans, Swedes, Dutch, etc, etc, always follow work rules,
>> turn up for work on time, and perform a professional job.
>
> And who is it that lives longer?
>
> The Germans, Swedes and Dutch or the Greeks, Italians and Portuguese and
> French?
>
>>
>> Civil servants are polite and do not skip work for no reason.
>>
>> Although northern European get higher wage, their work productivity is
>> good. This could be due to northern Europe do not get a lot of sun and if
>> they do, they try to squeeze more work in those time.
>>
>
> The crisis in Greece wasn't caused by lack of productivity. In fact
> productivity in Greece was higher than that of any of the northern European
> countries and it's economy was growing much faster.
Where and when Aga, was productivity in Greece higher than in Northern
Europe?
And how was our economy growing faster? Have you seen the numbers of how
the debt has skyrocketed since A. Papandreou?
>
> The crisis was caused by GREEDY BANKERS!
--
ADR on the current fiscal crisis : "There is no evidence
whatsoever that Greece spent irresponsibly and that it did not manage
its debt."
ADR on the open letter of Greek academics on the economy.
Pissaridis, Nobel Prize laureate is amongst them.
"This letter, signed mostly by persons with appointments and strong
connections to Greek academia has been extensively panned in the
forums of Greek academics wild inaccuracies, obvious distortions and
absolute lack of solutions."
"There is not chance in hell that the government will get
access to a persons' account that has moved the his/her
money quite legally to Switzerland or any other European
bank"
The naive ADR on Swiss accounts.
"Of course, they will be great Greek patriots who will fight on -and
eventually win-. In the meantime, I will stay with some proud people,
the Irish (since I have a great emotional connection with the place
and dear memories) "
ADR taking another emotional tantrum, takin g his marbles and going home.
"Palestinian rockets killed only a few rats in Israel"
Another "lesson" on current events from ADR
"I am always right, I am never wrong and you can't deal with it"
ADR and is God like infallibility
"When there are commentaries in the Wall Street Journal calling for the
replacement of this ridiculous government, you know we have reached
the end of the road"
ADR and the credence he places on ...magazines concerning the rise or
fall of a govt.
"That's impossible. For the news of the fire to travel from Rome to
Actium and for the Nero to sail back to Rome it would take many more
days than the fire lasted. Nero would have arrived just to see
smoking ashes."
For ADR, Actium = Antium
Ti Lozanh, ti Kozanh.
"This totally laughable and it shows
that you are smoking something powerful.
Have you tried to install a
DSL line at home in Greece lately?"
ADR on broadband penetration in Greece.
"These radiation level are just within certain areas of the reactor.
Let's not overblow the whole thing. Provided that the plant is
finally secured and cleaned, this radiation level will decline quite
quickly (depending on the actual elements that provide the
radiation)."
ADR forgetting about the plutonium, offers his in depth
analysis of the nuclear reactor crisis in Japan.
"To think that Anastassios had anything to do with the manufacture of
medicines is a frightening thought.
A man of fathomless ignorance who uses it as knowledge to guide action
and is involved in pharmacy imparts to medication a sense of Russian
roulette that's worse than the fear of disease.
Be afraid.
A man for whom Actium is the same as Antium, inequalities are the same
as negative statements, thinks just as well that chloride is the same
as clorate and sulfide the same as sulfate. There never was a
sophist movement, ancient Greece and Rome had no lawyers, and science
is never concerned with proving negatives. Anything goes, folks.
A mind that dysfunctional in a relaxed history forum with not
deadlines or bosses must be even worse in the spheres of life with
strict obligations.
Bingo! Then one hears that such a man failed to meet his performance
goals at his work and got a bonus of exactly zero dollars last year.
And that shortly afterward his employer reconsidered Mr. Retzios'
business contribution in his 24 months of employment and felt he was
being robbed, and rightfully fired the goober's a.s.
How many times must that have happened to Anastassios,... and
counting?"
Someone pegging the fool ADR for who he really is.