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cause nothing makes a person more productive than working them to exhaustion and then working them some more, then paying them virtually nothing for it.......right?
No, but the number of holidays has to be sensible.
Again, saying that the Americans have too much time off is like saying that the Greeks have no holidays at all.
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i think the obamanator should declare 4 weeks of gladiator games for the whole darn country, we sure have enough stadiums in this mighty sport hungry country. he could have the dems against the crats in an all out one month bloody battle in the arenas. i can see it now free beer and wine to all, what a festive celebration of triumph and defeat..chariots with sarah palin vs nancy pelosi. with weapons of choice.!!archery and , sword fighting. crossbow,jousting, catapulting for congressmen and congresswomen competion.. let the games begin..
Americans have more holidays than any other nation! This cuts down on production and makes the workers lazy.
Wouldn't it be a good idea to reduce the number of holidays? Let's say, 4 holidays per year are more than enough. I propose that we should eliminate Labor Day. Instead, it should be Executives Day - a day when corporate big wigs can have the day off.
Also, vacation time can be reduced to one week per year. That is plenty.
Where are you getting your info from?
I don't always trust study results, but I have seen some that were focused specifically on the amount of overtime hours, holidays taken by a nations workers pitched against levels of productivity and general sense of well being. In this scenario, the US, England and Japan took a nosedive. France and Germany I think came out on top for most amount of holidays as well as higher productivity on the job.
Americans waste a lot of hours at work browsing Facebook and bitc*in by the water cooler. It's almost like a subculture. I've seen it and I hate it. Workers are often paid for 8 hours while in reality they do 4 (especially in some office environments).
I thought we are a country that is suppose to value family values? Vacations and days off do more for families than stepping up productive would. Life is about more than just making money.
Sorry, but that is no longer true in America. Life is ONLY about making money, every minute from birth MUST be directed towards survival and that's "making money".
Americans no longer can afford to "work to live"...they must "live to work".
You even see people who WANT the retirement age moved UP! What does that mean but "work 'til ya drop" ?
I have seen a poster in CD declare that children should have to EARN their elementary education!!!!!
So, with some Americans thinking "work from cradle to grave is good for America " , family is just a working unit and NOTHING more.
Leisure time, up to 24/7/365, is the primary perk of being really, really rich. True wealth demands that everyone without wealth must work to support the wealth and to never threaten the exclusivity that comes with wealth.
The German’s are not stupid. They have studied the effect of long vacations on industrial (note – Germany has not let their industry be outsourced) productivity and production costs and have reached the optimum balance between production and leisure.
The United States, along with Thatcher’s England, still uses work, along with money, to separate the wealthy from the workers. As the shift in wealth distribution in the last four decades has been away from the workers to the owners the need for working more and more hours has kept American labor too tired to do an optimal job or keep a family together. We have lost the one income family into the fight for class separation as well as the fight for more short term profit.
These policies are detrimental to our country and our society. We need to pay workers more and give them more time to recover from the stress of keeping up with the robots on the line or in the office. The increased wages and down time will increase overall productivity and production enough to pay for the wages and time with some left over for increased profits.
I'm surprised there's 3 full pages of "troll food" for the OP's post.
Ya, I knew it was "troll food" even though I posted agreeing with another poster.
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