Toyota vs GM: just for laughs

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Originally Posted by Kal-El

I work from 8 am-9:30 pm 5 days a week and still can't pay all the bills.

It is true that Americans actually work among the most amount of hours per year.

In many European countries, such as Germany, they work only 32 hours a week (that's full time for them) and have like 6-8 weeks of vacation.

Many Americans are lucky to get 1 week off a year.

yeah i don't wanna turn this into a me complaining about my job thread, cuz i like my job. but i don't get any paid days off. nada. vacations i take cost me not only for the vacation but for the time i miss from work. something is wrong with that. who does get paid vacations though? the people on top. the ones getting rich off the peons like me.

also when i lived in england... it seemed that people never worked. shops closed at like 2 or 3 in the afternoon and restaurants were open only during evening hours. finding a 24 hour store seemed like a rarity. it was weird to me. it's like no one worked that long at all. yet the uk seems to be managing just fine. or no worse than us anyway.

it seems to me we lag behind other countries in many many ways these days yet we work more than anyone else in the world. what's up with that?