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2011-09-23 Europe

Brussels civil servants refuse to work 40 hrs/wk

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Posted by lotp 2011-09-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!

Posted by gromky 2011-09-23 00:45|| 2011-09-23 00:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Forty hours per wouldn't be bad as long as you didn't actually have to come into the office and like, do stuff.

Posted by SteveS 2011-09-23 01:39|| 2011-09-23 01:39|| Front Page Top

#3 The main reason the deb crisis will only get worse, is governments everywhere can't/won't stand up to the public sector unions.

Even Greece teetering on the brink can't bring itself to fire substantial numbers of government workers.

Posted by phil_b 2011-09-23 05:11|| 2011-09-23 05:11|| Front Page Top

#4 They are just like Chicago Public School teachers. Sense of Entitlement with no accomplishment to justify it.

Posted by Bigfoot Jeter8554 2011-09-23 11:22|| 2011-09-23 11:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Break them on the wheel. I'm sure their objections will vanish.

When on a rig, I work 12+ hours a day, 7 days a week from well start to end. I'm on call 24/7 out here and I don't whine about it.

Posted by Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division 2011-09-23 12:22|| 2011-09-23 12:22|| Front Page Top

#6 I suggest they be put on the RACK for the extra 2.5 hours and see how they like that.

Posted by dacama 2011-09-23 23:39|| 2011-09-23 23:39|| Front Page Top

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