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In Greece, people barely work at all, and work ethic is nonexistent. Getting and keeping a job is about relatives, political loyalty, and personal connections,
by anovikov 1y ago
In Greece, people barely work at all, and work ethic is nonexistent. Getting and keeping a job is about relatives, political loyalty, and personal connections, all real work is done by 'losers' who have nothing of that but their working hours are unregulated anyway and they work illegally for cash. These people need a goddamn reality check.
- tdeck 1y agoIf the situation is as you describe, why is anyone pushing for a 13 hour work day?
- anovikov 1y agoTo legalise overtime for the few highly qualified employees that are worth it. Now it's just illegal to ask them to work more. And public sentiment is deeply irrational as always. Like in the US, why do people continuously battle over non-issues like abortion, guns, global warming or transgender rights, but no one seems to have ever protested over the very real, and fixable, issue of gerrymandering?
- cma 1y agoDidn't Texas legislators just protest that?
- anovikov 1y agoLegislators sure because their asses depend on it. But common people? And this is the worst perversion of democratic principles in America and if people were even halfways rational they'd go full rage over. But no one seems to give a damn. Only big issue that's visible in public space that's not entirely made up, is immigration - but even there, views are deeply partisan and completely divorced from reality on both ends.
- cma 1y agoThere were protests too though it was protesting multiple things https://www.axios.com/local/dallas/2025/08/14/texas-redistricting-trump-protest https://www.axios.com/local/dallas/2025/08/14/texas-redistri...
- jasonvorhe 1y agoWeird how this conflicts with basically all available data about working hours within the EU where is often at the very top on average. What is your statement based on?
- anovikov 1y agoIf you believe those stats, Germans are the laziest nation in Europe while Greeks are the most hardworking lmao. Do you believe it?
- tstenner 1y agoAre these the kind of statistics that omit stay-at-home parents but have the average pulled down by people working part time that wouldn't work otherwise?
- jasonvorhe 1y agoSo you're assuming I base my point on studies that are all wrong and yet you don't provide even a single pointer to what your initial statement stems from? okay.
- bigbadfeline 1y ago> people barely work at all... I'll take your word for it, barely so, for argument's sake. > all real work is done by 'losers' who have nothing of that but their working hours are unregulated anyway and they work illegally for cash Oh, so they do work, you contradict yourself here. About "unregulated anyway", you do not express yourself clearly but it seems you're mislabeling work that is outside of regulations as "unregulated", the latter means lack of regulation and it's not the same as "illegal". Well, that kind of work is up to negotiation between employer and employee, they are on equal footing and the employee can say "No" without any repercussions, actually, in that case, the employers risk more and they will have to be more accommodating than the employees. Ergo, long hours won't happen if the employee says "No". > These people need a goddamn reality check. Another out-of-the-blue statement that doesn't follow from your prior story. Actually, the regulations and the government there need a reality check and the people are providing it to them by striking. It's the opposite of what you're trying to insinuate.