Re: American's time shortage

"Bob LeChevalier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >RH wrote:
> >> The following was copied from:
> >>
> >> http://www.simpleliving.net/timeday/
> >>
> >> American's are putting  in longer hours on the job now than we did in
> >> the 1950s...
> >>
> >> In fact, we're working more than medieval peasants did, and more than
> >> the citizens of any other industrial country.
> >
> >One European country recently had a national strike for a 6th week of
> >annual vacation.  American workers are lucky to get two, and usually
> >have to work extra hours before and after to catch up.
> >
> >Americans (the ones who still work) are being worked to death to support
> >the social welfare state.

Compared to *Europe?*

> Umm.  Europeans have more of a social welfare state than we do.  They
> pay MUCH higher taxes as a result.
>
> We are worked to death because we want to have our cake and eat it
> too, and thus tolerate management abuse, and the corporation managers
> want to make money faster so that they collect their enormous options
> profits, so they continually heighten the abuse.

There does seem to be certain sub-culture (or maybe it's the primary
one?) that doesn't seem to think a person is sufficiently virtuous if they
aren't happy to be abused by their employer.   I used to tell my husband,
"If you are willing to work 15 hours a day and weekends...do you
think they are going to tell you to go *home*?"

--Julie