Hum, is that been almost a year? Really? Well, lucky for me I did warn you in the disclaimer of this site that attendance will be sketchy at best
I have been busy (new job, new home, new PEOPLE!!!), I have been down, and I have been almost bitten this time. But it seems I still got a few aces up my sleeves. I am bouncing back. Paradoxically, by writing… Just not in this blog obviously…
Anyway the reason I am back is a radio announcement I heard, could not resist but hating my fellow human beings a little more. And “hate” is good, I mean for me it is, it’s a feeling right? So I might be… hum… “getting better” then…
So: Economic crisis, blah, blah, blah… Europe is going down, blah, blah, blah… Greece… Spain… Needless to say France is looking to reduce its deficit and so on. So one major announcement yesterday: France will push back the legal retirement age - No that is not what makes me angry - I could not care less - from… 60 to 62 (sorry fellow foreigners from countries were 65-70 is the norm… If you get retirement money at all… You’re welcome to join my hating parade…)
Well ok, I guess it is not good news for workers, and the French answer for this news is of course: Strike! (for such a powerful language with so many words of vocabulary, it seems odd that the only communication tool French people can master is striking nowadays…)
But here is the thing: Who do you think is on strike? The Mac-Donald burger flipper who will have to bust tables two more years? The baker getting up at 4:00 am every morning? The trucker, on the road 341 days per year? The manager pulling 16 hours of work per day?… Guess again…
The ones on strike are the train drivers and some administration peoples. Funny, because those categories of workers are - for now - UNTOUCHED by this change. Very clear: “Retirement age will be pushed back, except for categories of workers with special retirement regime and plans” - which the two mentioned above, have -
So either they are deaf (it was on the radio), or blind (it was on TV, surely those guys watch TV…) or they don’t know how to read (it was in the papers), or they are just plain stupid - Maybe, just maybe -
But I think you miss one crucial piece of information still… those guys on strike, care to venture a guess when THEY will retire?… Between 52 and 55…
So for those who judged me for hating… Do you feel some love for those guys now? Come on, hop in, there is still room in the hating wagon, TCHOU! TCHOUU!
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