February 1, 2005 General Comments Off on
Wow. It’s amazing what years of fear will do to a country.
We need more rebel movies. Bring back Dean and Brando!
In other news, Jean Pierre Raffarin is trying a new tack to getting fired. I’m not against allowing people to have longer working weeks, but I’m in the minority.
That’s because the way things currently work in France is that you have the same working week as everywhere else (40 to 50 hours), and you get 10 to 20 extra holiday days per year. Last year I had 40 days holidays, this year (because I changed jobs) that’ll be down to about 15 (10 days RTT and 5 days holidays).
The French have this weird system where you have to earn your holidays in one year, and take them the year after. Then when you quit you are paid for all of the holidays you earned, but didn’t have the right to take yet.
