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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 599734" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>We have a bit opposite take of that. If someone feels they can not stay that four weeks out of the office, or at least feel the need to take calls during the vacation, we tend to recommend a test of how important they are for world getting by. Test is this: Take a glass full of water. Put your finger to the water. Take a finger off. Now look closely what happened. If there is your finger shaped hole in the water, you truly are irreplaceable. If not, they will manage just fine without you.</p><p></p><p>Especially here at north we tend to be much less competitive and success driven than you are. In fact neither of my first two languages have a word loser in any other meaning than as a person or a thing that happened to lose some particular competition. Now that you have taught us your culture through movies and tv shows, we have adapt the word loser to both languages to same use you have. Still not used much, though.</p><p></p><p>We also have very strong workers unions, even more so in the past and it is very difficult to get rid of the employee without very good reason, so we are much more secure. And we have also social benefits that make us feel even more secure.</p><p></p><p>At times, when looking statistics etc. one has to wonder how we can be as prosperous as we are considering how pampered we are and how little is actually required from us. I mean, we pay social benefits even if the only reason for not working is, that you don't feel like it. Of course most want to work and have a job they find worthwhile and can be proud of and want more than bare minimum and are ready to work for that. Apparently it is efficiency that saves us. Even our school kids tend to do better than kids in most countries with much less time spent at school and even less homework and very low competitiveness in class. </p><p></p><p>Okay, we do have less money and wealth than many people in USA. And lower salaries. For example person in similar position in similar company in the USA than my husband here makes douple or triple what he does. And pays less taxes. Then again person doing my job (and I too have masters degree and job suitable to that, but I'm not business executive) makes about the same. And person doing husband's job in US wouldn't have five weeks and extra days vacation time, nor do they have less than 50 hour work weeks. And we too have a house and a cabin and a boat, reliable cars and food in our table. And we are not paying up to 200 000 dollars per child for college expenses like some of our North American acquaintances (okay, those schools do sound amazing, I would had loved liberal art college as a kid. Our kids have to do with state university type schools.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 599734, member: 14557"] We have a bit opposite take of that. If someone feels they can not stay that four weeks out of the office, or at least feel the need to take calls during the vacation, we tend to recommend a test of how important they are for world getting by. Test is this: Take a glass full of water. Put your finger to the water. Take a finger off. Now look closely what happened. If there is your finger shaped hole in the water, you truly are irreplaceable. If not, they will manage just fine without you. Especially here at north we tend to be much less competitive and success driven than you are. In fact neither of my first two languages have a word loser in any other meaning than as a person or a thing that happened to lose some particular competition. Now that you have taught us your culture through movies and tv shows, we have adapt the word loser to both languages to same use you have. Still not used much, though. We also have very strong workers unions, even more so in the past and it is very difficult to get rid of the employee without very good reason, so we are much more secure. And we have also social benefits that make us feel even more secure. At times, when looking statistics etc. one has to wonder how we can be as prosperous as we are considering how pampered we are and how little is actually required from us. I mean, we pay social benefits even if the only reason for not working is, that you don't feel like it. Of course most want to work and have a job they find worthwhile and can be proud of and want more than bare minimum and are ready to work for that. Apparently it is efficiency that saves us. Even our school kids tend to do better than kids in most countries with much less time spent at school and even less homework and very low competitiveness in class. Okay, we do have less money and wealth than many people in USA. And lower salaries. For example person in similar position in similar company in the USA than my husband here makes douple or triple what he does. And pays less taxes. Then again person doing my job (and I too have masters degree and job suitable to that, but I'm not business executive) makes about the same. And person doing husband's job in US wouldn't have five weeks and extra days vacation time, nor do they have less than 50 hour work weeks. And we too have a house and a cabin and a boat, reliable cars and food in our table. And we are not paying up to 200 000 dollars per child for college expenses like some of our North American acquaintances (okay, those schools do sound amazing, I would had loved liberal art college as a kid. Our kids have to do with state university type schools.) [/QUOTE]
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