There is an incredible amount of people who do not work and are stupidly lazy in Britain, but they're not workers. The people in our work force work very very hard I can assure you.
Now the Italians. They are lazy workers.
[QUOTE=Thom12255;37300531]They're just trying to say that no one wants to work instead of trying to create more jobs for people to actually do.[/QUOTE]
It seems this way, but there are a lot of people who dont want to work, people who write bullshit on their Jobseekers diary so they still get their JSA.
But its no excuse for the governments lack of effort.
[QUOTE=Charybdis;37301595]I've known a few Uni students with exceptional attendance. They never got a job anyway! :v:[/QUOTE]
I know a couple guys who got computer science degrees 2:1 classification and only attended when they felt like it which tended to be once or twice a week and they'd dissapear after a couple hours. They would look over the powerpoint stuff and assignments and read up on it themselves as in properly research it and summarise it in their own words when they got home, though.
Well I know for a fact we're too accepting, so this wouldn't surprise me. I was shocked when I found out that in Japan/Germany (and similar European countries) a Bus/Train being 1 minute late is a big deal and you can even get a card to show your employer. Over here its normal if a Bus/Train is 5-10 minutes late.
I thought Romanians are the laziest.. we've had a highway project for like, what, 2-3 years or so? It's nowhere near finishing, if I recall.
I wonder how much of that is bullshit and how much isn't. I recently heard on the radio that workers in the US tend to be some of the hardest working motherfuckers in the west, second only to Asians...lemme see if I can find the article they discussed...AHA!
[url]http://www.dirjournal.com/business-journal/the-hardest-workers-in-the-world/[/url]
I wonder why Brits don't work that hard...must be a cultural difference or something.
[QUOTE=gamerman345;37302872]Well I know for a fact we're too accepting, so this wouldn't surprise me. I was shocked when I found out that in Japan/Germany (and similar European countries) a Bus/Train being 1 minute late is a big deal and you can even get a card to show your employer. Over here its normal if a Bus/Train is 5-10 minutes late.[/QUOTE]
And we barely have buses and trains at all! :v:
[QUOTE=supervoltage;37302874]I thought Romanians are the laziest.. we've had a highway project for like, what, 2-3 years or so? It's nowhere near finishing, if I recall.[/QUOTE]
Italy. Salerno-Reggio Calabria. An highway being worked out since the '80s. Still wasn't finished. We win (although that's probably because mafia and all)
"As representatives of the wealthy business owning class we want workers to work more hours at lesser pay giving us an even greater profit margin"
Considering I've applied for a good 6/7 jobs over the summer and not had any luck I think there are bigger problems than us being lazy.
As a resident and citizen of the UK I can say that many UK Workers are fussy rather than lazy.
There are many jobs, it's just people are either not qualified for them, unsuitable for them or refuse to take a job because of social stigma attached to it.
[QUOTE=scurr;37302749]There is an incredible amount of people who do not work and are stupidly lazy in Britain, but they're not workers. The people in our work force work very very hard I can assure you.
Now the Italians. They are lazy workers.[/QUOTE]
Casual prejudice, for the whole family!
[QUOTE=chills2;37303565]Considering I've applied for a good 6/7 jobs over the summer and not had any luck I think there are bigger problems than us being lazy.[/QUOTE]
since I quit my last job in october I've probably applied to thirty plus jobs :( I even apply to jobs that I know I won't get in the vain hope that they'll keep my cv in the database and pull me up if something appropriate opens.
my misfortune that I'm also in a city that's got some of the worst employment problems in the UK (surprise surprise, it's a northern once-industrial city that's continually starved of re-development funds)
Bolton? The city which was quite literally shut down by Thatcher?
[QUOTE=FlashMarsh;37304146]Bolton? The city which was quite literally shut down by Thatcher?[/QUOTE]
shhh dont mention her name here the tories might find us and start insulting everyone here too
Clearly these UK politicians have never heard of France.
relevant
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ2mJPSccvo[/media]
this is how us brits work
what MoPheads.
zethereal you just made my day a little better
''Those peasants don't have any jobs! The lazy blights!''
id love to have a well paying job so i could move out my folks house its just that well paying job don`t want me
More hmmm...
[url=http://news.sky.com/story/915369/brits-unpaid-overtime-worth-a-million-jobs]"British worker's unpaid overtime worth a million jobs"[/url]
What about us portuguese?
Countless times have I seen a group of workers on the road where in a group of 5, 1 works while the rest watches.
But i like getting my JSA. I am lazy while searching for jobs that are not currently there. Thank you for your insight tories.
[video=youtube;EucJIl0uonE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EucJIl0uonE[/video]
Sums up the article pretty nicely.
[quote]"Too many people in Britain prefer a lie-in to hard work," they argue.[/quote]
In what world is a hard day of shit work preferable to an extra few hours in bed? Seriously, you get to wake up to shit fucking weather, a day at work that will probably be shit where you have to suffer through the stupidity of people who don't have a clue what they're doing all the while keeping a smile on your face.
There is literally no reason to be happy about going to work instead of getting a few extra hours in bed unless you have your dream job.
If the workers are the ones who are lazy then by this measure we can say that politicians are on a very well paid permanent vacation.
[QUOTE=JustExtreme;37302849]I know a couple guys who got computer science degrees 2:1 classification and only attended when they felt like it which tended to be once or twice a week and they'd dissapear after a couple hours. They would look over the powerpoint stuff and assignments and read up on it themselves as in properly research it and summarise it in their own words when they got home, though.[/QUOTE]
Sounds about right for comp sci degrees. The lectures don't help you much if you have the ability to just read off a powerpoint and understand it. I probably wouldn't have shown up for half my lectures if my uni wasn't tracking our attendance and actually cutting people who didn't attend enough out of the course.
i like how politicians are saying we retire early when i and many other people probably won't EVER be able to afford to retire while they could probably do so at 50 or 60
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