America has its own oligarchs like Russia has its oligarchs... Until they have a spiritual awakening America is being used and if Republicans keep getting more chances.... they're going to be selling us off in parcels.
Considering that Americans continuously define their whole identity based on "a Revolution" narrative it's ironic that you call somebody else's approach as a "revolutionary spirit"🤔😏🙄 Especially since your fourth of july was recent
And the best thing is… YOU DON’T NEED TO. The protest regarding age of retirement are awesome even when is just 1 year more of age what could be legally required.
Plus US economy is because of dollar. You can print as much money s you want and say hey we have alot of money. By force you can keep going but not forever and then you will know what your real gdp is
What most people don't understand is: This is not about *work* culture. It's about culture. Culture giving work the place it deserves instead of forcefully making it #1.
Exactly. France avoids many of the problems to society manufactured by the 24 hours a day 365 days a year wage slave "culture" of the US, South Korea and other Corporatocracies masquerading as "countries."
@@Ultimusvivi Same in Germany. Also you don't deserve to make a living by just working mere 40 hours a week. Because the capitalists need all the money for their undeserved luxury lives.
This is what I don't understand. They don't have like, a water company? An electric company? Grocery stores? Trash pickup? There are so many things that I can think of that someone has to still do in the month of August!
@@hippojuice23 "putain". It's a slur. Often used as a swear word. Litteral translation is "whore/hooker" . When said in this context we don't even think about the prostitute meaning ,it really is simply a strong word expressing our strong displeasure at something "in this call a phone call from work when you're not supposed to be working. Remember, it's a swear word. Spanish have it too as they say puto or puta in the same manner. It's the equivalent of English speakers saying "fuck me..." When they're really annoyed by something.
As an Irish person, I thoroughly enjoy fishing peacefully while I ignore work calls and texts after my shift is done. Workers' rights are a beautiful thing.
@@Chicxy_Madness the idea was that everyone shit in the Seine when government officials had planned to swim in it It became so popular the president said that they would arrest people doing it even if it's in another river because people made a site which calculate when you had to shit in your closest river so it arrives in the Seine for the big day
We can legally ignore it, but you probably won't keep a job for long, if you're in a line of work like mine. If a deadline is coming up, it doesn't matter what I can legally do. If I don't take care of my files and make it happen, people can find themselves without a home or lose their earnest money. And it's just good client service.. Not everyone works 9-5, and I need to work around my clients' schedules. It's the difference between caring about your clients and and just caring about your paycheck.
@@UnexpectedTurnOfEvents I care about the clients and the quality of my works tremendously. Within working hours. If you want me to be available outside of working hours, I want compensation.
@@UnexpectedTurnOfEvents if you are that expendable then that means you aren't as good at your job as you think, period. nobody with actual skills who adds value to a business is expendable. you're funny lol.
Easy. No need to protest. If you want this, just tell your boss you want 5 weeks of unpaid vacation. You'll still make more money than the French, you'll pay less taxes, and you'll have a lower cost of living. If you don't do that, then you actually prefer the option that the Americans have rather than the forced productivity reduction in France.
@@SimonASNG More money, but also higher cost of living. It's naive to think there is lower cost of living in the U.S. Average rent in France is 16% of average salary and average rent in the U.S. is 27% of average salary. Average utility cost in France takes up 6% and in the U.S it is 8%. The food in France is also a lot of cheeper, yet maintain it's quality. The gas is more expensive in France, but car insurance is also way lower. Education is also cheaper, so is health care (obviously). And btw, on average French worker pay only 3% more on taxes than worker in U.S. (24% vs 27%)
A disorganized social fabric ? Riots? Sky high taxes? Lower quality of life than before? Less money than before because everything is expensive? You mean those things?
@@Fyt11089 You're not very smart then. It's not difficult to understand that she knows France, has been living there and can make the French accent. Get over yourself...
@@OdessiasOddeseys In essence, the right to disconnect, which will become a protected right under the general protections' regime of the FW Act, gives employees the right to refuse to monitor, read or respond to contact or attempted contact outside of work hours from their employer
I mean it worked for most EU countries. Even in Hungary where I'm from you get a minimum of 20 days per year (with a few extra if you meet certain conditions) and as long as you can bring a doctors note to prove you were actually sick, as many sick days as you need.
The thing about Euro work culture that is so great is that there are proper boundaries, if you are on shift, you are exclusively working, if you're not on shift, you're not working. This allows for better work-life balance and actually improves quality of work done.
The German way to start such a conversation would have been: I am sorry to disturb you in your free time, but... So there are bosses who ignore your free time here...
Yes but tell that to an American and they will call you a communist and that we need to remove more restriction of business as it hurt the billionaire :c
try calling a french person during lunch time. they will pff at the phone, look at caller ID then put it back down and comment on how ridiculous it is that someone would try to interrupt someone else's lunch. I love the french, they truly have their priorities in order. I have learned so much from seeing them get their stuff ready to go 1min before their shift is up and being up from their chairs the second it actually is
If i'm paid to work until 5pm, you can be sure I begin to clean my desk at 4:55 and i'm already away at 5:01. If you don't pay me extre hours, you're not gonna make money from my work while I get peanuts
@@CrocusSeal And for goodness sake don't drive more than half a tank of gas from your home. And for God's sake don't get into a traffic accident. The road will be closed down for the rest of the month.
"Oh putain " is the most emotional French word..😂😂. It just relieves all the tension from your mind and body 😂😂😂.. I as a foreign in France use it often 😂😂
I’m a Brit who has worked in Belgium for 10 years. The work life balance here is similar to France. The legal work week is 36 hours. But if you do 38 hours (as most do) then you get an extra 12 days paid holiday per year on top of the already generous amount we get. I heard some American tourists talking about PTO (paid time off) as if they were lucky to get any. Very sad
I went to a music festival in the Netherlands not too long ago. The trip had me taking five days off of work. That is my entire year of vacation time. I have five days. Technically, I don't have *vacation*, I have *sick days*, but my bosses are chill af and let us use them interchangably, and move around our work times as long as we make 40h in the week. I was chatting with two Germans and they both had a look of abject *horror* on their faces when I told them I had five days and all were being used on the Defqon trip. I agreed.
You don't pay 50% if you don't earn a lot of money... Why do people never understand how income taxes work. The average person definitely doesn't pay 50% income tax.
I work full time in Germany, 35 hrs a week, 32 paid vacation days, a good salary and quality of life. We are indeed legally covered so no one dares to call or email you after your shift ends, I feel sorry americans still dont understand that should be the norm for ALL countries!
This may be the case for 1% of all German companies. The rest do not have the resources or the generosity to offer such good conditions. 40 hours and 28-30 days is average.
@@JohnnyShagbot if you are a small entrepreneur in Germany its probably the same, but labour protection laws in Germany are definitely stonger here compared to the US.
@@bulimiahell the value of our labor is worthless because we have such a glut of cheap labor, always pouring in from the border so companies don’t have to pay more because the government just feeds them and unending supply of cheap labor. It has a similar effect on housing
Not only in France, I’d say most european countries work like that. In Austria we have very strong unions, so we have 5-6 weeks vacation, unlimited sick days and now we are fighting for the 4 day work week.
In Ukraine we have no unions and we still have all of that😂 (well officially we do, but no one knows what they do and I don't think they actually have much political power. I have never heard of anyone using them for anything, if theres a problem, we just call our administrative representatives we elected). I think its just Europe-wide thing - people here are just used to work to live not live to work
Yea this is not only in France😅. With some jobs you may have to take a couple work calls though or be up to date with e-mails. The holiday though, 100%, 5 weeks holiday + sicks days (it’s 20 I think but depends on workplace, if you run out you can get a doctors note next time you are sick). Over 60 years of age and you get the extra 6th holiday week. Teachers obviously have longer holidays.
Well, I'm Italian and when my boss came at 17:59 asking me to write a letter for him I told him I couldn't because my shift was over in a minute and I didn't have enough time to write. He was a bit upset, but he knew my reactions so he said "Okay, see you tomorrow."
Depends. If you have a schedule to pick kids up at daycare or similar, you can't do it. Otherwise you could do it on overtime, and go home early the next day instead.
Not in France but Denmark and we have 5 weeks as well, dang near have my American co-worker a heart attack when I told her I would be gone for three weeks. Her exact words were “that is going on leave, not vacation” I didn’t have the heart to tell her we don’t have a cap on the number of payed sick days.
Yeah, I'm Norwegian and i take three months vacation during winter, including Christmas tho and no vacation during summer but i get to live like a king in southeast Asia during the coldest months here. Things in America is just getting worse by the day so it doesn't look bright for workers future over there.
@@dariusdareme yeah, if it passes 3 months and you're still sick and not able to work full time like you used to, you can apply for sickness pension, but it will be smaller than your salary and the bureaucracy is insane. i had to do this for my mother who got sick, back and forth to comitees, doctors, her workplace.
@@KR-lv7vz Yeah, cus we're all fucked up, sick and injured from constantly working ourselves to death. Take the boot out of your mouth, it tastes better.
@@saschamayer4050in the 1600’s the most powerful politician of the time was as murdered & small bits of him cannibalized by a mob. Look up ‘Witte de With’ or “that time the Dutch ate their prime minister’ for more info
I mean in Europe, we do both. CEOs still live cushy lives with little responsibility (if they fail, the govt bails them out), but we ALSO take care of workers.
@@JR-rf9sqMany Parisians were threatening to do it as a protest against the high costs of cleaning the river so it can be used as part of the triathlon in the upcoming Olympics.
@@rwrobwalker Oh I’d heard about the threats/protest, I was just wondering if they’d actually gone through with it. I was able to find some articles though and it looks like it’s been postponed to July (like next week)?
American here...if I am off the clock, I don't go to my work to socialize or answer calls, anything...it may annoy my bosses but when I am off duty, I don't give a crap about anything or anybody.
Australian here. I hate the corporate American work ethic. Seems so inefficient, like they want to be seen to be busy and work long hours when I can get more done in 2 hours than they can get done in a day. Then they look down on me because I won’t join their 6am meeting for 2 hours. The first half hour of which are ice breakers! Such a waste of time and nothing actually gets done
My husband says: Try working with people from India. They keep repeating the same things over and over. And, when you tell them that you have to leave the meeting ( online) because you have work to do, they say "yes" and continue repeating the same thing again. You never get anything done because you spend half of your time in meetings.
This. Americans think because they work for 12h a day, 6 days a week without vacation, they work harder or better when actual developed nations like yours and mine have done the science a long time ago and concluded that a well-rested and balanced worker is more efficient, more motivated and more focused than someone working themselves into burnout. I'm from Germany. We are famous across the world for efficiency and quality. And we get a minimum of 24 days of vacation a year, unlimited sick days, we have unemployment security, healthcare free at the point of charge, public pension funds, etc. So whenever an American tries to "educate" me on the "fact" that if America did any of this stuff, they'd stop being great, I can't help but laugh. And then, inevitably, they come back with another banger: "The only reason you can do that stuff is because America finances your country" A nation of deluded, sad individuals. Or, if they're not deluded, they're even sadder because they see the reality of their country clearly.
Fun fact: there is a metric that tracks labor productivity and we are very productive. It’s one of the reasons we dominate the world economy with a relatively small population. Productivity and efficiency are not equivalent of course but most western countries have about the same degree off inefficient and also work less.
So do we. The thing I wish most non-Americans knew is that what annoys them about America annoys most of US as well - but we're trapped here. In this country, a very small number of people makes decisions for everyone else. I have found that once non-Americans actually meet Americans, their perceptions change and they realize we're not all "like that." In fact, very few of us are like that. It's just that the stereotypes are loudest.
Same in Germany! No overtime. Work is done when it’s 5 PM if not earlier and they have a whole month vacation or “holiday.” Quality of life is so much better in Europe.
I do overtime sometimes, but use that to take additional days off or taking off earlier...Sometimes it results in me going off at noon (usually friday)^^
@@marthaevans1311 Yes. It's what we refer to as a Trump free zone. With luck you Americans will have a Trump free zone too. Then you can sit back, watch TV and learn how Trump gets on in all the pending court cases of his. Furthermore you can look forward to the likes of all the MAGA types being kicked out of your Congress and even Kari Lake being obliged to take up a position in Walmart, perhaps as in "cleaning operative to spillage in aisle three". KL is far too old for TV if five hours in make-up is required.
Yeah.. we get paid 50 percent more to work overtime. You're trying to turn an option and ability to make more money into a negative. But.. that being said.. I have a life outside work so most of the time they can blow me. 40 and done.
Sometimes I really love French people when it comes to citizen rights. The courage to take the day off to unite and protest to the government is something. It even has the public support, and I mean like, all of you. Not all countries have that. In my country, when the workers are protesting during the labour day, most of our people would say, "Ngapain sih demo-demo, bikin macet." (Why did they protesting? Such a waste, only adding the traffic)
Don't worry, they do that in France too. Then the media try to show how violent protesters are and stupid people back it up. Hopefully, people who really need progress because they're struggling in their life and politically cultured people don't give a shit and keep on fighting. It's been a long time it hasn't paid off though as all our current and previous presidents have been infamous for not giving a shit about massive protests and get more and more violent at repressing them.
I'm from the UK and work in the US currently and I miss working in the UK so much. I can't wait to go back once my contract finishes. I thought the UK was bad but it is heaven compared to US working standards and lack of benefits
@@alextias3410 I am not holding my breath. I will move to France in a few years when I save some money to go, I am lucky I was born with EU citizenship!
Lazy people should move to Europe. Ambitious people should move to USA. This is why the US rules the World and the French are basically a tiny bit part player.
@@farzana6676I think it is more like smart ppl should move to europe. One wont probably getting the ceo of a blue Chip companie but will have more spare money and spare time.... And can Do a higher carear with less afford. I mean if you are so ambitious like you Tell, you could overwork the most ppl in europe and you would climb up the corporage leader pretty fast. As an result you would gain more money then in the US but still would have less spendings because of the average livingcosts. In Addition to that after getting ill, for overworking a lot for years you would habe a good social secure and a good health System 🫡🤷
@@farzana6676 stupid people should work 55 hours a week till they are 67 and then retire. Smart people understand they have only one life and should enjoy it while working reasonable hours.
Easy. Tell your boss you want 5 weeks of unpaid vacation. You'll still make more money than the French, you'll pay less taxes, and you'll have a lower cost of living. If you don't do that, then you actually prefer the option that the Americans have rather than the forced productivity reduction in France.
@@brianarbenz1329But isn't it complicated to vote in the US? Here in Sweden you don't have to register or anything, we simply get all the things we need to vote in the mail automatically. If you don't get the mail, or if you lose it, you can vote anyway. We have about a month to do the actual voting, so you can just drop by when you have the time. If you're elderly or have a hard time getting around you can call your city council and they will send someone to your home to collect your vote.
@@erikak8665 It is a two-step process in almost all states. We have to register well in advance of elections, then vote. But the greatest problems were the "poll taxes" southern states charged to stop black people and low-income whites from voting. The southern elites feared the mass population having a share of power, so they did everything they could to stop them from voting. And family traditions determine likelihood of voting, so the leftover effects of the poll taxes, and the terror unleashed against black people still result in low turnouts.
@@namedrop721 Essential jobs do continue but the workplace will be a lot emptier. Less employees but also less customers, because the customers are on vacation as well...
@@namedrop721 Eh half the bakeries around me here in France are already closed. My hairdresser is off. Like many many things are closed. Everyone just collectively goes on holiday. Sure supermarkets and hospitals etc gotta stay open but truly everyone is just off and its so nice. You do not even have work email coming in or anything like that because everyone else is off too.
@@namedrop721 Administrations are working at 30% capacity, but it balance itself out, because there's only 30% of usual traffic coming in during summer. every private business, surch as restaurants, bakeries depends on the owner. if they think staying open in the summer is beneficial despite the lower amount of people then good for them. Bruxelles is very much empty during summer months. you can really feel just how many people went into vacations.
I live like a human being and I rarely take vacations even if they were paid, partially because I just like working, one time my boss begged me to use my vacation days because they were going to expire soon, and he really likes me, he may have thought that I was being too stubborn to go on vacation from work, I enjoyed the vacation well enough, but I was also ready to go back to work as soon as it was over, because I get nervous if I don’t have a job that earns money even if I know I’m being paid while I’m not working, because I worry that I will get too used to not showing up to work, and become a burden on society
@@jeremiahcastle388 There was not a single person who sat on their deathbed and said they wish they’d worked harder. If you died tomorrow, your desk would be cleaned out in 3 days and someone else would be doing your job in under two weeks. I get enjoying busy, but thats also what hobbies are for.
In Poland in my company internal regulations its officialy forbidden to send wrok related emaiils, call etc. after working hours. It is allowed only in very urgent situation.
People always die to attain rights. It’s how we got a 40 hour work week instead of 80…. Weekends off… breaks and lunches. Corporations didn’t just give them to people
The phase of my life when I was most stressed out was when I worked for a couple of US owned companies that did not respect our holidays, weekends, and when our shift had ended. I endured it because I was new. It was a real culture shock after I moved to an Australian owned company. The bosses made sure no meetings were set beyond our shifts and no phone calls were made when we were not working.
I can understand currently working for a US client and believe me they sick for work for meeting deadlines, statistics and what not.. have been taking anti depressants from last 1 year my mental and physical health both are ruined completely but I was just waiting for the experience now just going to run away from this toxic environment 😮💨
@@payalk8583 Hello. I hope you got as much experience you need. I understand we need to work hard, but after a few years, you also need to respect the time you spend for yourself and the people important to you. Hang in there. :)
As a UK government worker, I also have 6 weeks paid leave as well as a handful of public holidays making the total approx 35 days or so pa. Also the ability to accrue flex if I want to increase my time off more so (up to 5 days in a 3 month period) and on top of that even (!) the ability to sell back 5 days leave which is a fantastic flexible option if you’re struggling financially and the extra couple of hundred is preferred). I really feel for Americans and other nations that have such mean holiday entitlements. Your working life is decades long and my mind boggles how hard and intensely such affected people have to grind 🙏🏼
I mean exploiting the lackluster worker rights of a country while being forced to abide by the laws of another isn’t really irony. They don’t do it out of the kindness and love for their fellow citizens, but because they know that not complying will result in far more trouble than it’s worth. They are still doing this bare minimum, it’s just that the bar for the bare minimum is much higher in some places
Jaja Good thing irejected the offer from Atos in Dallas,Tx when they merged into Houston's Schlumberger(French owned Co.) where i worked for 10 years. ATOS is the worst Co. to work for.
I remember my boss telling me I had the weekend off ( oil field work, on call 24/7) so I got drunk Friday night and at 5 am the next morning he called me and said I had to come in. When I explained that I was still drunk from the night before he said “ we just need a warm body in a truck.” Europe definitely knows how to treat employees
@@prettypyrenees I agree with @Dusticulous oil field/isle work might be physically demanding but boy do they get paid. That aside, his boss only needed him to fill a quota, not to actually work. Getting paid for doing nothing? Sounds fine to me.
Individual workers in the USA usually have the option. They can tell their boss they need 5 weeks unpaid time off. They'll still make more money than the French, pay less taxes, and have a lower cost of living. They don't do that because they prefer the option to earn more money rather than the forced productivity reduction in France.
@@sanzharnaizabekov8166 Bro, you have no idea how often a warm body is needed. We have so many dumb laws that allow people to just abuse employers and get away with it. For every company that is quick to fire and risk a lawsuit there are two that will bend over backwards to keep a terrible employee.
The reality is..... if we did stick together UNITED we could have better workers rights. Paid sick time.. vacation.... fair pay..... together we could shut down the nation.. but still we work past our schedule time FOR FREE!!!
@@capitalb5889 More WORK & less time v with your family is all. Of their goals. All corporations are about making money off the sweat of the labor they employ. Reality is employers don't give 2 flying F's about YOU... OR YOUR FAMILY
I'd be like, "Why not live in France, seems like you don't like it here, so I thought I'd let you go be happy in France. Oh and say bye on the visa sponsorship".
@@Hirotoro4692 it's a you problem. Why should a french person care about american worker rights? Go call your state representative or something. Or vote for someone who's willing to solve this problem
5 weeks of paid vacation really isn't that great. 6 weeks is somewhat normal for entry level in Netherlands. by comparison. (though legally they only have to give you 4)
the "funny" thing is, "despite" this "adverse to work" attitude, they do get shit done... when they actually work, they are very productive (not talking about civil servants here, since the guaranteed security of their job tend to not be a hard motive to work their backside off when it's time to
@@kolerick French civil servants are the most highly trained, educated in the world. Its not because you had a bad expérience with a young admin in a city hall that French civil servant ingineers, nurses, soldiers, cops, tech, legals, admins, researchers, scientists and secretaries dont do the job. And they are the vast majority of the French administration.
Having worked in an American company I can attest that they don’t know what work life balance is. I used to have colleagues who work till 9.30pm EVERY SINGLE DAY. Hello??? Anything past 6.30pm to me is totally not productive anymore.
who works AFTER 9:30?!?! do you provide essential services to keep the city running? gas station, fast food, hospital, utility services, First Responders, 24/7 store?
@@ericolens3 oh you’ll be surprised. The company is in the financial industry. And yet the colleagues were back at work by 10am the following day and the cycle repeats again from Monday-Friday. I hate it when there was no work life balance there.
Easy. Tell your boss you want 5 weeks of unpaid vacation. You'll still make more money than the French (or Germans), you'll pay less taxes, and you'll have a lower cost of living. If you don't do that, then you actually prefer the option that the Americans have rather than the forced productivity reduction in France.
@@SimonASNGi don’t know where you get lower cost of living. If you want to have the same living standard as in eg Germany with healthcare, retirement, social security etc, you have to pay more than people in germany. It is always cheaper if everybody pays
@@Isabelle-hv6ny schools are closed in july and August. Some take 2 or 3 weeks of vacations in july, but most people in August. Some offices even close 1, 2 or 3 weeks so the workers have no other choice to be on vacation. And it is summer, the weather is perfect (too hot sometimes)
In Australia we have 4 weeks paid leave plus public holidays, parent/carers leave which is part of our 10 days sick leave a year, maternity leave etc. There is a move towards 5 weeks yearly leave with a few businesses heading in that direction.
I fell into a really bad place mentally where I was suicidal & diagnosed with extreme panic disorder, high anxiety, agoraphobia and suicidal depression due to chemical imbalance but my work would not help so even tho they are allowed to give paid leave due to health care, I was denied so I could only use the vacation hours I had saved and when it was all used up I had to go back regardless if I was still suicidal, my agoraphobia was not better & I was having super bad panic attacks driving to work to the point I would be crying, shaking uncontrollably, had to pull over to throw up, couldn’t breath, couldn’t concentrate on the road or the signs & I was just overwhelmed from traffic, etc. I’ve worked there for 25 years now & never even had a write up. They won’t allow me paid leave to get treatment and said if I take time off to get the help I was trying to get then it would be unpaid which I couldn’t do since I’m alone with no financial support. It has been an absolute nightmare!!! I wish I wouldn’t have wasted so many years of my life at a company that allows retaliation
I am so sorry you had to experience that, I had a similar situation happen to me in October after an injury and I lost my job in January. I know it can be so difficult to even get through a day without feeling like your brain is trying to kill you or pushing you to end it yourself so you're not suffering anymore. I hope you can find the financial support you need so you can get treatment. Remember to take it one day at a time and be compassionate to yourself. I sincerely wish you all the best girl 💙
american employers are ridiculous. and that country dares to call itself the land of the free.... you are all slaves, not free people.. :( when I was down with a very serious upper respiratory illness my boss told me not to worry about work, just get better.
does prud'hommes exist? it is a tribunal for working people vs their employer. A part of the judge is from the union, one from the industry and the last one his from the state from memory. And lawers are free if you are poor
Do you have short term disability through work? You would qualify for long term disability but those benefits are not great. If they fire you, they have to pay unemployment, which usually is a little better. That, combined with disability, might get you through until you find a better job. Go see a therapist, even if you have to pay out of pocket one time, so you can get a letter supporting your need for disability leave. You really do qualify.
Friend of mine works for a European company in the states and his benefits are insane. 5 weeks PTO minimum and fully paid healthcare. I wish that was the standard here in the US not the exception.
I mean “insane” is what most of the world would say about the US. Some people in the US will try to downplay it by saying how much worse it is in china but that really doesn’t justify things
Considering that in many if not most countries in Europe, anything less than that would illegal, it makes sense to them to offer the same level of benefits to their American employees as well, even if it's not legally required. The way to make it standard is to hold your government accountable through unions.
That's basically just standard here in Europe. Same for no sick days - we go to the doctor and the doctor decides when we're ok to work again. And most European countries have quite a number of state holidays on top where you don't work if it's a normal job and get extra compensation if it's a job that has to be done, like police, or hospital staff. In some countries, even shops are closed on holidays and Sundays, though this is a bit controversial.
seriously say all you want about France, Europe whatever but the guys have figured out the working conditions, so much more human than anywhere else I know.
Je suis toujours morte de rire quand je vois tes vidéos. Je trouve que tu parles extremement bien français. Et j adore tes caricatures des différentes cultures. Pour être précise tout monde n est pas en vacance au mois d août on peut poser nos congés quand on le souhaite. Beaucoup de parents prennent le mois d août car c est plus simple pour la garde des enfants. Quant aux appels et autres mails en dehors des heures de travail, effectivement nous ne l'acceptons pas il y a d ailleurs ici ce que l'on appelle "le droit à la déconnexion" les weekend, pendant les congés, et en dehors du temps de travail nos employeurs ne doivent en principe pas chercher à nous contacter.
An American told me "AMERICA IS THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!" yes, he spoke in capitals. Now, I was a guest in his house so I'm not going to start debating him but I thought: you haven't been around a lot in the world, have you? There's a nice proverb: if you don't wave your arms you don't feel the chains.
Individual workers in the USA usually have the option. They can tell their boss they need 5 weeks unpaid time off. They'll still make more money than the French, pay less taxes, and have a lower cost of living. They don't do that because they prefer the option to earn more money rather than the forced productivity reduction in France.
@@SimonASNG Conversely, if you end up in a hospital in the US and you don't have generational wealth, everything you saved up for all your life is wiped out for one hospital stay. Versus, in France they give you a prescription and you're good to go. But sure, the French are taxed higher...
"WHY ARE YOU CALLING ME" "I can legally ignore you" "Get a group of people together to sh*t in the river, or burn down the city or something. Boom workers rights 🤷🏼♀️" Nah, she was cookin with this one 😂
