Re: [OT] Lazy Inefficient European Socialist Losers?

From: Frank Bemelman (f.bemelmanx_at_xs4all.invalid.nl)
Date: 08/12/04 

Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:34:19 +0200

"Scott Stephens" <scottxs@comcast.net> schreef in bericht
news:atCSc.242101$%_6.142270@attbi_s01...

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> > One reason for the short workday is that Europeans seem to get sick a
> > lot more than Americans. According to a July 25 report in The New
> > York Times, on an average day 25 percent of Norway's workers call in
> > sick. A 2002 study in Sweden found that the average worker there took
> > more than 30 sick days per year. Makes you wonder just how good their
> > health care systems really are.

Those figures seem rather high. In the Netherlands it is less. It has
nothing to do with the health care itself. Since we get paid anyway,
we stay home simply because we have a slight cold, a sore finger or
a limp *** and what have you. Due to rounding errors, the monthly pay
slip may even turn out 2 or 3 cents higher, when sick ;)

But this 'report' is full of *** anyway.

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-- 
Thanks, Frank.
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