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| Greece Unveils The Negative Salary, And A Whole New Meaning For "Pay To Play" |
| 2012-02-22 |
| We thought we had seen it all. It turns out we hadn't. The country that gave the world the alphabet, philosophy, and plates with funny sexually ambiguous drawings on them, has outdone itself again. Because beginning this month some Greeks will have to pay for the privilege of having a job. From the Press Project: Salary cutbacks (called "unified payroll") for contract workers at the public sector set to be finalized today. Cuts to be valid retroactively since november 2011. Expected result: Up to 64.000 people will work without salary this month, or even be asked to return money. Amongst them 21.000 teachers, 13.000 municipal employees and 30.000 civil servants. Needless to say the BLS is salivating at the prospect of US workers paying for a job, as this will immediately allow them to double count said person's role in the employed part of the labor force (which incidentally has shrunk by 1% in the time it took to write this), as the money said "worker" pays can be used in the BLS hedonic models to theoretically hire many more people courtesy of fractional reserve lending. Now if only everyone would agree to pay for the joy of playing Solitaire 9 to 5, then all the world's problems would be solved. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #7 WORLD POLITICAL, MILITARY HISTOIRE' suggests that not even the Superpower or Hyperpower USA is Immune from doing such a thing, espec as per its US$15.3TRILYUHN DEBT-N-RISING = RISING CHINA. Which in turn belies the potency of 1960's GUAM TAOTAMONAS [+ decades later HUGO CHAVEZ] where the Ghosts claim the US will develop ISLAND/LAND-SINKING "EARTHQUAKE/TECTONIC BOMBS" TO DENY USE OF STRATEGIC ISLANDS TO ITS ENEMIES. D *** NG IT, SILLY MORIARITY THOUGHT THE ISLAND SANK BECAUSE OF AN MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE - WELL, THE ANSWER IS YES-N-NO!? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-02-22 22:01 |
| #6 GREEK CIVIL WAR SOON behind Door #3, Jim. * OTOH > WAFF > {NaturalTurk.com] AUSTRIA [ + Germany]: GREECE SHOULD SELL ISOLATED OR UNINHABITED ISLANDS TO TURKEY. Head of Austrian Chamber of Commerce Christopher Leitl repeats the call. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-02-22 21:53 |
| #5 Glenmore, many hair dressers rent a chair in the shop where they work. A lot of cabbies rent the cabs they drive, the rental fee includes the dispatch service. It's an old and still prevalent services model, but rather .... unusual .... for white collar workers. |
| Posted by: lotp 2012-02-22 18:56 |
| #4 In a number of Third World countries one has to pay the big boss man for your job, which then entitles you to collect graft for your 'paycheck.' |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2012-02-22 16:53 |
| #3 These guys don't even pay their taxes, and you expect them to give back money? Lotsa luck. |
| Posted by: mojo 2012-02-22 14:54 |
| #2 How about pay to be a friking Greek Gov pol? |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2012-02-22 13:06 |
| #1 Used to be that waiters at high-end joints had to pay the owner for the right to wait tables; don't know if it's still that way. Gotta pay to play. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2012-02-22 11:42 |