Why Greeks Are Lazy? The Truth Revealed 

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Even Greeks believe that civil servants are lazy! Let them come to the Internal Revenue Service and see with their own eyes how us the employees work like crazy! I have to use tranquilizers to cope with my anxiety attacks!

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I'm watching from the US but I'm Greek. Great videos but you're mistaken about the 6 day week. There is a law from 2011 that allowed employers to agree with some employees to work a 6th day with a wage increased by 30%. The problem was that the law required to get a permit from the local labor office which was taking so much time that nobody followed it. So everyone who was working a 6th day, was doing it illegally. Now the government created a web page that receives all these requests and the approval or rejection are instantaneous. Moreover, they restricted the types of businesses that allowed to do that and increased the additional payment to 40%. Therefore, don't listen to the BS that they say. The new law is huge improvement and in combination with the digital labor card makes it more difficult for companies to utilize illegal work.

no-one from the outside has any right to comment on how lazy a nation is- to think this is ludicrous . Every culture will have subjects that work very hard and subjects that are lazy but to decide and determine whether a country is lazy or not makes no sense- especially since there is no reliable and accurate metric for laziness.. Greece has yet again continued to expand financially at a satisfactory level outperforming the euro area averages. Its forecast GDP is between 2.3 to 2.6% over the next 4 years. The public debt ratio has been declining 9169% of GDP) and the net international investment position has improved steadily and its credit rating has increased to investment grade. Household and Corporate debt has decreased significantly. Greece has also expanded its export market share. These are all indicators of a hard working nation....

Thank you for stating the truth. That is a propaganda started from westerners especially the Germans and their close friends just to underestimate and diminish the Greeks And their plan worked pretty well if you think that half of the planet believes that. 😊

Other countries are jealous of Greece

It's true, that's what meat to be Greek, Live your life on welfare never worry about paying cents of taxs, new pension money get straight to waist.

a tortoise work better that greeks

Not a single American on the planet would be able to do your job. Believe me, I've seen it with my own eyes!

your 35 and work for 6 hours a day, and you think that tough ? What about the rest 18 hours, sleep & resting time ?

@@supermavro6072 he said 10 hours per day for 6 to 7 days a week, thats over 50-60 hours per week, Im sure that the opposite of a lazy worker

@@supermavro6072 I understand that you are handicapped and there is nothing wrong with that but whats wrong is also being malignant because of the dices life rolled for you and you ended up with your condition. 6/7 means 6 days out of 7 since there are no 7 hours in a day to conclude he meant 6 hours out of 7 (?). I know that this is hard for you to grasp and you don't have to feel bad about your self, everyone has his issues and weaknesses and some people are less lucky than others and we should care for them which is why I am trying to help you get a clear view of what was said. I am sure that you have some other strength to cover up for your intellectual (or psychiatric) disability. Being intelectually and/or psychiatrically healthy is important but having such issues doesn't mean your life has ended. If you ever have too negative thoughts and/or thoughts of self harm please communicate with the appropriate services in your country/area. Stay strong and best wishes to the people who are there to help you take care of your self.

Propaganda always work well in the negative direction. People tend to believe and reproduce something bad rather than something good. Greeks got the bad name and it will be impossible to stop it, whatever they do. Our european "partners" helped too much for revealing the statement of the poor lazy Greeks.😊

Germans and their close friends in EU did all the damage. The Rich, hard-working, educated and developed europeans and the poor, lazy, undeveloped Greeks. That makes feel them better. 😊

There is no work in greece, that's why we have economic crisis

@@supermavro6072 that is not true. There are plenty of works. If you want to work there are jobs.

@@user-oi4cn7rt8t there is no job in greece.

@@supermavro6072 There are jobs in Greece if you want to work. Especially if you have qualifications it is easier to find.

but you are

Germans and their close friends in EU spread that propaganda for the Greeks.

Greeks still have very high unemployment rates, don't blame merkel for that.

It's facts

@@konstantinos6192 True 👍

That is true for most public sector employees in any country. I guess the correct word is complacency of the job that exists within the public sector.

Not only this is true for most public sectors in all countries but I used to be a "public servant" and worked for a yearly average that if split to days it equals 17+ hours a day average including day offs, holidays, weekends and whatever else. This number does not include the 2.5h+ of driving (well riding the bus) and neither the hours I lost when out of work due to work (from getting prepared for it down to running unpaid errands for work while not working like say buying stuff they need, studying for the job or writing multipage documents). This lasted about four (4) years +-a half (and for the 1st 6 months the average was even worse). For a few years after that my workhours dropped to an average of 11h or something a day (again yearly average including weekends that I didn't always work, holidays, day offs etc). For all of that I was getting paid for just 8h whatever happened and nothing extra (enforced by constitutional law afaik for specifically my then sector). We were literally free labour and used as such even for the most stupid reasons since we were free and nobody gave a single F about us. If you also want to hear (net not mixed - mixed were higher) salaries I was getting anywhere from less than 800 euro a month up to 935 or something (the maximum I took was 1100 something only for a one month and also a few months of 1000 something euro). Some times I was also in life threatening situations and even part of a group more or less literally left to die but somehow didn't, in a situation where we shouldn't be thrown at and it was actually illegal to do so. All for no gain other than satisfying the sensations of the civilian masses and superiors looking good while being safe and away. I eventually left the job by denying my permanence and leaving my old contract to expire and I still feel like I literally died at that job having loads of health issues now. Ofcourse I am not claiming this being typical for the public sector - far from it and yes most of the public sector is indeed lazy (having things to do but not doing them OR even not being at post during workhours) or "lazy" (being at post but not actually having much to do anyway). Now I temporarily work in another part of the public sector (via a training programme for just 6 months or so) and half the personnel comes late and leaves early and almost all of the personnel is being lazy (or lazy-ish depending on who we talk about) even when at post. In the private sector it was the other way, I mostly worked 11h a day (but yearly average was more like 9 since I had at least a day a week free when not two) and very rarely I worked up to 17-19h (happened like half a dozen of times). I would also rarely get paid more for the extra hours depending on which work we talk about (eg in a coke cola factory filling pallets with products via contractor I worked from 11h up to 17-19h for no more money per hour since we were getting paid by the product loaded on pallets and sometimes we would be forced to just wait there without being allowed to leave with no orders to load due to the system having crushed - on the other hand I have also done 3 days of 17h non stop as a security guard and ofcourse lots of the usual double shifts, those I got usually paid for but was never asked if I can work that long or have something else scheduled and at least once I worked an unscheduled 15-16h as a security on a sunday and got paid 18 euro, the manager only had a 20 euro paper money on him and he asked me to give him the 2 euro change and I stared at him angrily and told him "you fcking kidding me right?" and he said "well its ok, keep the 2 euro to have a coffee from me" (no pension stamps either of course since I shouldn't be working that day).

Tell that to the Germans who started this propaganda

@@sakisgr1396 to the Brits as well. Let us not forget that perhaps the biggest colonial power ever existed, the laziest in other words, made fun of us Greeks broadcasting reality shows about "the lazy Greeks". Oh how I wish the Brexit gives them the final blow!

Explain all these to our German "friends" who started all these. In the times of Greek financial crisis, we had the face the austerity and the problems, we had also to face the comments of the Germans and their friends.

Good point. Most greeks work very hard, but inefficiently. Greece is full of small businesses that can't take advantage of technology and economies of scale. As a result many are forced to exploit their workers and cheat on their taxes. On the other hand, an overgrown, priveleged, unproductive and sometimes corrupt public sector, makes life difficult to everyone else. Some things started to improve with the introduction of technology the last 4-5 years, but a lot of work remains to be done.

They don't work more, only for long hours. Not the same. Also you don't consider the high unemployment rate.

EU membership is going to kill Greece...exit now. We are not respected and are beholden to northern Europe....why?

And of course the politicians here were saying "we all ate them together" referring to the debt . The debt now is even higher but now French and German banks are saved so no one cares .

If it wasn't for tourism, greeks would have starved

This is so true!!! I have relatives in Greece who barley work in the public sector but I also have relatives that work in the private sector and they are so hard working!!

Here in Corinth all of the shops closed for the afternoon and they reopen in the evening, so here siesta is still a thing.

@@noother964 In Kozani all the shops (except big supermarket) close during afternoon and they reopen in the evening.

I have never heard of a single American calling Greeks lazy. They respect Greeks…

How much you getting paid?

@@montrealcanada7023 5 euros per hour

never on sunday

Depending on the job you do ​@@tomstarros3189

@savvas1640 unfortunately true

greeks sit their asss all day and collect tourist money, free money

This was basically German propaganda because they caused huge suffering to the Greek population with their austerity measures and they wanted to present the greeks in a negative light in their home country because the Greek banks would have to repay German loans if Greece didn't abandon the euro...

You should have been in Greece around 2010 - 2014. I work in tourism and we had a lot of Germans and Dutch that would say stuff like i can do whatever i want, you owe us money you lazy Greeks.

Τhe german politicians had to blame greeks so that they wouldn't admit that they risked german's taxpayers money to save the german banks that were linked with the greek debt and were risking default if greece defaulted . So greeks were named "lazy",when in fact they work the most hours in the E.U. As for why Europeans almost forced greek governments to accept those loans, it's 101 on taking over a country. Don't take my word for it, Google how u.s.a took over developing countries by debt

Same in America and the rest of the West. People do not want to work menial jobs for min wage and so business are hiring migrants because they don't mind being taken advantage of and abused.

Thanks for sharing this with me! I would love to meet you and your husband next time you guys come to Greece! Thanks for your support.

1 only has to look at German media who promoted this false idea and propaganda against greeks putting them in a negative light so that they appear to be the good guys as promoting their punishing austerity on the country to benefit only the German banks & pockets...

It started as a statement in the years of the Greek financial crisis and was spread.

The Albanians have moved on..Germany for 15 Euros a hour!.Why stay in greece for 3 and work twice as hard.

EU working hours 2011 Greece All in employment 42.2 Full-time employment 43.7 UK All in employment 36.3 Full-time employment 42.7

Workers in Greece had the longest average usual hours at 42.2 hours per week (in europe in 2011)webarchive nationalarchives gov uk

@@chrispri No show us another table about Greece's PUBLIC DEBT vs Uk'S PUBLIC DEBT (and i mean TOTAL PUBLIC DEBT and not stupid Eu classification).

@@jimjim8645 why?

@@chrispri You will understand a lot that you don't know.

@@voskreglavincevska7080 You have no respect or admiration for other countries except your own. Only hate in your heart, madam. My language is rich, sophisticated and it is spoken since thousand s of years. If your knowledge is only about names, I feel sorry for you and your ignorance. Some universities still teach Ancient Greek under classical studies! Jealous madam!