The British workers

[STEED]

Today i went and saw my GP (Doctor) and while I was waiting and wonder when the planet will be blown up and so on, I came across an article in a magazine stating the British work force by 2020 will be working a 60 hour a week and 70 hours by 2030. :huh:

Good grief I read on, The British work force is the hardest worker in all of Europe and can not wait to get back to work after the holiday breaks and rack up the hours in over time. We are becoming a nation who look at sick leave as an act of treason and holidays will become the thing of the pass. We do more hours and put are European neighbours to shame.

The article goes on to say, we will build up wealth and spend more on items we do not need. This will not stop the Governments from taking the bulk of your hard earn money way from in in the form tax.


So are we fooling are selfs to work harder and live the dream?


PS: Are we being manipulated without knowing it. :hmm:

[bigboywooly]

Not me
Sick pay is like an extra weeks holiday
:rotfl:

I only work overtime if I need the cash for something
Otherwise the 35hr a week is enough :up:

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Well someone has to work so the layabouts in the EU can turn over a profit ;)

[KevinB]

Lunch is for wimps:hmm:

[The Avon Lady]

Lunch is for wimps:hmm:
Looks like lunch and supper are for wimps. :hmm:

[Enigma]

I work 50-60 hours a week, but its entirely by choice. Noone makes me. But, if I want to make the living I like, I got to put the time in.

Here in the US, the average corporate employee gets 2-3 weeks of vacation a year and 2 weeks of sick time. It's nowhere near enough time off a year. nowhere near. Calling out sick is something that people hate to do, because management frowns upon it. They would prefer you come in sick and get everyone else sick. Whats more, they heavily reward people who do not take their time off. Dont take a sick day for a year? You will be rewarded with praise and maybe a small bonus.

Not taking a day off in a year? Coming to work with a fever? That's sick.

[KevinB]

Lunch is for wimps:hmm:
Looks like lunch and supper are for wimps. :hmm:

You forgot breakfast:rotfl:

[Godalmighty83]

i already work a 56hour week, it aint a lot of fun.

[STEED]

Why the heck do we need to do more than a 40 hour week?

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Lunch is for wimps:hmm: Looks like lunch and supper are for wimps. :hmm:
You forgot breakfast:rotfl:

No-one keeps me from my Nesquik!!! :hulk:

[STEED]

The British report is out and we Brits are grumpy fed up and working longer hours.

[waste gate]

The British report is out and we Brits are grumpy fed up and working longer hours.

Someone has to make up for the German's and their six weeks paid vacation and all the other holidays they observe. The month of May is especially heavy on the off time.

[jumpy]

Today i went and saw my GP (Doctor) and while I was waiting and wonder when the planet will be blown up and so on, I came across an article in a magazine stating the British work force by 2020 will be working a 60 hour a week and 70 hours by 2030. :huh:

Good grief I read on, The British work force is the hardest worker in all of Europe and can not wait to get back to work after the holiday breaks and rack up the hours in over time. We are becoming a nation who look at sick leave as an act of treason and holidays will become the thing of the pass. We do more hours and put are European neighbours to shame.


hahahahahahaha

what ******* planet are those guys on?

I'm sure I heard on Tomorrow's World that the advent of the computer would make our lives easier and more carefree, where we'd all be working 3 days a week in some paradise island thingy...
Reality check - it makes my 40 hrs a week daily work more difficult as we're expected to do more with technology that keeps crashing repeatedly.
Meanwhile I work for close to minimum wage at a skilled job, for a bald **** who spends his weekends polishing his new TVR, whilst I sit here and twiddle my thumbs wondering if my other half and I will ever be able to afford to save enough money for a deposit on a mortgage, or have enough left over at the end of the month to start a pension for when I'm old and the government has ****ed off the state pension because it costs them too much?!
I dread to think what would happen if she ever gets up the duff... financially we'd be so far up the creek without a paddle it doesn't bear thinking about. And the real horror of it is we both work full-time.
hehe I'm starting to believe my long-term financial security lies behind the business end of a shotgun down at the local post office :rotfl: ah well, I can but dream of long lazy days where I have the freedom to do as I please when I please.

So why exactly do I want to spend even more of my life making like a battery for big business and the treasury?

[Tchocky]

The British report is out and we Brits are grumpy fed up and working longer hours.
Longer hours.
longer hours.

longer....hours?

longer?....hours...

nevermind

Here, go work it out
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5a/Yearly_working_time.jpg/400px-Yearly_working_time.jpg

STEED, you're reacting as if this report is already true and irresistible. What mag was it?

[Platapus]

Here, go work it out



Where did you get that chart, it looks interesting?

[Tchocky]

Should have said, it's on wiki's entry for "working week". they are hours worked per year, so there'll be some distortion
it's on OECD chart as far as I can tell.

Hardest workers in Europe? Get off the high horse STEED. These things aren't country-specific.

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Should have said, it's on wiki's entry for "working week". they are hours worked per year, so there'll be some distortion
it's on OECD chart as far as I can tell.

Hardest workers in Europe? Get off the high horse STEED. These things aren't country-specific.

Then again, that chart is from 2004.

[jumpy]

Besides which it's all relative to the overall standard of living and work for the country... britain is supposed to have done away with 'workhouses' at the turn of the century and I'd hate to see it come full circle :nope:

[STEED]

STEED, you're reacting as if this report is already true and irresistible. What mag was it?

Not a magazine at all. :smug:

It was a UK survey.

Hardest workers in Europe? Get off the high horse STEED.

IT CAME FROM A MAGAZINE

Why don't you get off your high horse.