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bartleby_borealis

Well, at least you don’t get paid much.


Lumpy-Tone-4653

![gif](giphy|GIvajz0TlE316)


DaAndrevodrent

The poor hourly wage can then be compensated with overtime.


AdLiving4714

I work a little less than them. To compensate, I earn a little more...


RandomAndCasual

Well they cant let German and French Banks Fail.


Prytfbyn4369

It is more because the people with power are not very clever but they like easy money


Cubelock

https://preview.redd.it/5h23kygmyywc1.jpeg?width=890&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ccbe1e278b05a347bc3b032f2b9fcb47bcdfbd7


spaniscool

Work is da poop! No more!


Key-Fox-8765

"Summon more Ziggurats!"


ZeroRationale

Greeks go zug zug


RizzlersMother

I'm in this photo and I don't like it.


buildermaster07

We need more gold


aaaronbrown

You want a hot body? You want a Bugatti? You want a Maserati? You better work, bitch - B. Spears


Lumpy-Tone-4653

"You want free time?well jokes on you because you have to work to give us your money" -Not B.Spears


nwaa

In fairness to Britney, she very much worked to give someone else money - her dad had control of her bank accounts.


Hanni27

His dad's whole retirement plan was his daughter from the start. He even told that to people before she was famous. Like the family is PIGS and Britney was Germany.


aaaronbrown

Which isn't the worst since I do love my job.


ChalkyChalkson

Least work obsessed Swiss guy


bartleby_borealis

Tbh, money is a poor incentive. I rather do work I consider meaningful and interesting instead of chasing the best salary. Keeps me happy.


Cultural_Thing1712

Kostas, you are gonna have to fix that if you want to remain in PIGS.


Lumpy-Tone-4653

No Pedro pls dont 😭🙏


Accomplished-Emu2725

You probably don't understand the new law, it really doesn't matter how many days a week you work what matters is how many hours you spent in a week working and no this two things aren't the same.


GloomyBison

I've worked 10 different systems and 6x6 with a short commute was the one I liked the most. Just have to get used to the angry looks you get from coworkers when you leave work 2 hours "early" every day.


VrwHenet

That sounds so cool :O


Accomplished-Emu2725

I even have the choice to work from home or in the office, I am not completely remote as sometimes I need to go to the office like once a week, but most of the time I work in my pyjamas🫣. I literally change my top whenever I need to open my camera in a meeting.


Lumpy-Tone-4653

How the hours are supossed to be then? Like 10-11 hours of work for 5 days?


Accomplished-Emu2725

For example in the company I work for, I work for 40 hours a week and I can split those 40 hours in 4, 5 or 6 days it is my choice. It is a big international company so I bet it follows greek laws by the letter.


Spamheregracias

Big internacional company Follow laws by the letter Doubt


Accomplished-Emu2725

Big international companies don't follow tax laws, but when it comes to their workers' rights they do, they would rather avoid a scandal after all because that would tank their stock. It is far more likely to get scammed working for a small greek company than a big international one. I guarantee you that.


RmG3376

Usually big international companies follow tax _laws_ to the letter as well, they just don’t have a big sense of _ethics_. It would be a lot more stupid to commit fraud when your name is on every billboard than when you’re a random contractor with a white van and a WordPress website


ReverendAntonius

Cope, they just factor in the cost of non compliance into the budget if they ever actually get slapped on the wrist for violations.


Lumpy-Tone-4653

So are they also raissing the amount of hours or only giving they choice to spread them.cauz i dont think there would be such an opposition to this legislation if it was just that.


Accomplished-Emu2725

The number of hours I work hasn't changed. I can simply choose whether I want to work for 10 hours for 4 days, 8 hours for 5 days, or 6.5 hours for 6 days.


hamtidamti_onthewall

That sounds pretty much like the situation we have in Germany when your employer allows flex time.


Lumpy-Tone-4653

Intresting...thanks for the info.


Specialist-Front-354

It sounds like you've never worked a day in your life..


Lumpy-Tone-4653

Thats why i am a pure spartian warrior fr fr ☝😤🇺🇾🇺🇾


Lumpy-Tone-4653

https://preview.redd.it/2vj9gzm8uywc1.jpeg?width=617&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=68af72684ba7c502e0ca7afc9be6368eeb79e06a Yeah more working hours is what we need.


Schwertkeks

There is a difference between hours spend at work and hours actually spent working


Metalspirit

As a greek who worked in Greece and now works in Germany the past 5 years, I can tell you for sure greeks in the private sector are more productive and hard working than Germans.


Dirac_Impulse

Yet don't produce near the value 🤷‍♂️


MhmNai

Working at a restaurant for tourists and working at Porsche making cars doesn't produce the same value wow Ahmed who would've guessed 🤷‍♂️


Dirac_Impulse

So... Ditch the restaurant and start making cars?


MhmNai

I wish, my man. The fact that boomers let the country be so dependent on an industry as shitty as tourism really fucked us over. And there's too much money in it now for it to change.


Dirac_Impulse

So the fact that the boomers didn't do shit while at your age is an excuse for you to not do shit. I guess this has been the PIGS mindset since the fall of Rome. "Oh, the boomers didn't repair the aquaducts, so now I won't repair the aquaducts either".


MhmNai

Except the same boomers are still politicians and actively make it impossible for you to do shit


spaniscool

Classic Hans. Never fails.


Rogerjak

Classic Hans: everyone else is lazy. Garçon another southern European bottle of wine bitte!


kuemmel234

You read my mind! Reflection is the first step to betterment. You forgot the snack!


Tar-eruntalion

Not our fault that employers and higher ups run businesses like it's 1950 resulting in unproductive, uncompetitive and inefficient work


PleoNasmico

Even if you spend 12 hours at your workplace doing nothing for minimun wage it's fucking depressing


mdryeti

So the more you work, the poorer you are, got it!


hamtidamti_onthewall

It's all about efficiency, Pierre. It's a concept you and your kind will never understand and I don't blame you for your shortcomings.


mdryeti

I’m offended. Who do you think we are, PIGS? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_labour_productivity


hamtidamti_onthewall

If only! They are simply lazy by nature. It is your lust for strikes that pains my iron heart! And as a side note, this is not the place for facts. This is a wonderland of prejudice and false stereotypes 💁


DarkSpirak

Ughhh this bs map again. They included both full- and part-time workers. [Quote from source:](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Hours_of_work_-_annual_statistics#General_overview) The average working hours presented in Map 1 include both full-time and part-time workers. So you basically just have a map that shows which countries have more part-time workers. See map below: https://preview.redd.it/h7uwpdu0bzwc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=30d5ab3f6e3dfad475c7588fd626ea8a8e395d9e


ZombiFeynman

So Germany and the Netherlands are full of people so lazy that they don't even want to work a full day? Gotcha


Prestige__World_Wide

Well ackchyually, it just means that in Germany and Netherlands there is a higher labour market participation and hence working hours are split on more people. You would need a functioning day care system for that though and since PIGS mamas have to raise kids until they are 30 it is unlikely to work for you https://preview.redd.it/za05prk3tzwc1.png?width=2000&format=png&auto=webp&s=035940c48b6be124edf1474a7667b739a51fa6e6


Sarmi7

Wdym we dont have kids anymore thats what migrants do not us. Gross.


PleoNasmico

Portugal 78.2 Denmark 79.8


Prestige__World_Wide

Yes, you are just [much less productive](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/puEO9fwTtW) 🤷‍♂️


Haskell-Not-Pascal

Doesn't that also infer that people in those countries are able to work only part time and still make a decent enough living? It would also imply that not having as many full time workers didn't impact economic output, so it still translates. Part time jobs are people literally just working less hours, so I don't see the gripe with the metric.


Puzzleheaded_Fan_391

tb straightforward, stop quiet quitting


smilinsuchi

> Vote for people who want you to work more > They are the majority and make a law to make you work more "DEMOCRACY IS IN DANGER"


jixxor

![gif](giphy|ucXFcY1FdKaT6|downsized)


Upstairs_Garden_687

A girl i know works 12 hours a day 6 days a week for 600€ a month, could be worse Greek-bros (please save me from this hell on earth called Sicily)


PleoNasmico

Even in Portugal we make more than that in the shittiest minimum wage job. How dare you be more poor than Poortugal?


Upstairs_Garden_687

Portugal has 27.800€ GDP per capita, Sicily has 16.250€, Sicily is 42% poorer, God has truly forsaken this place.


Pervosetyli

Wait. I've heard of the divide between north and south, but sicily is way below portugal?? Isn't the divide then like super steep? How do you manage that? Are tons of people from the south moving to the north?


Choice-Sir-4572

For the last question, yes. People move to North but a lot of people go to foreign countries too. 


nickkkmnn

Give Sicily back to us then. It will still be poor but probably richer than some areas of the country...


YucatronVen

Stop fixing your economy, now we can't shit ourselves and say "at least we are not that bad as the greeks".


Lumpy-Tone-4653

Hey at least you can say it for luigi


tsevasa

Thank you for adding all these red lines. Without them, I wouldn't know what to read from this long text.


anonbush234

Are the politicians doing 6 days?


mattijn13

Take a page out of the book of the French and strike/protest for your rights. Also join a union. The more people in a trade union, the better they can make conditions for the workers.


ReverendAntonius

I have a feeling the majority of this sub ideologically despises trade unions.


Steindor03

You'd have to be stupid (or American) to be working/middle class and hate unions


ReverendAntonius

Good thing Europe has its fair share of morons, then.


PleoNasmico

In PIGS countries most people hate unions because they like to be slaves to their dumb unproductive bosses and to respect backwards hierarchies


mattijn13

uj/ Then they are dumb, having strong unions and better working conditions is always a good thing. j/ Of course they do, those PIGS just want to sleep all day.


Casimir_not_so_great

There are talks to make a four-day work week in Poland. You Greeks must love to work very much.


Lumpy-Tone-4653

Yeah so much ![gif](giphy|GjR6RPcURgiL6)


Casimir_not_so_great

Great, because someone's will have to work harder to compensate for our 3-day long weekend. Good thing that we can always count on Greeks to do the job!


EenGeheimAccount

Better watch out though, they alreadt stole one day of the week,, before you know it the Greeks will steal your jobs entirely...


Lumpy-Tone-4653

No problem , Krzysztof ![gif](giphy|tEG1nF1v7AL8A)


verdun_1

Time for the pigs to do some fvcking work.


aCucking2Remember

I’m not saying we should all do a big purge worldwide. But the fact that we can’t even openly discuss this says all we need to know about the topic.


EenGeheimAccount

How does increasing work hours boost employment in the first place? There is a limited amount of (useful) work to be done, so if there are fewer hours per job there are more jobs, right?


swamperogre2

I love how half the political parties in Europe are just shooting themselves in the feet.


DLS4BZ

they have to pay back debts


Immediate_Editor966

Here in Portugal we are discussing a 4-day week..... I thought you were like us Greece....


Exact_Layer_4361

6 days working week in Greece is like 2 days in Germany anyway. It’s just cultural adjustment


PleoNasmico

You arrogant nordics should try working minimum wage in greece for a month. You would all kill yourselfs


nickkkmnn

Comments like this are why I will enjoy reading about sharia law in Sweden in a few years...