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Originally Posted by spdrun
That seems excessive, but it really depends on the base salary -- if the bonus is expected, it's basically a part of the worker's salary rather than an excess.
Boo f**king hoo. That's approximately normal in many countries outside of Dumberica, including Australia and the better run European states (Germany, Switzerland). It's the US that's abnormal in this respect, bordering on criminal.
Ding, ding, ding! That's the problem. Government guaranteed pensions at a comparatively young age. But please don't throw the good things (civilized amount of vaca time) and neutral things (a large part of the salary is paid at the end of the year) out with the bad.
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Well I am with you here but let just think for a second....
Normal working week in Greece was 36 hours.
Bonuses paid for going to work ON TIME.
Bonuses paid EVERY year (the equivalent of 13/14 months every Xmas)
Pension age 55 years of age.
Last 5 years average making your pension (how about the first 30 years you work for base wage?)
UP TO 30 working days a year fully paid SICK days.
(add up 26 working days vacation and you have 56 WORKING days anual vacation, this is 11 weeks)
On top of all the ABOVE, 11 days NATIONAL HOLIDAYS. ( so now we are talking 13 weeks OFF for the year.)
One year have 260 working days. The "poor" Greeks are working only 185 days a year in average.
HOW MANY DAYS A YEAR DO YOU WORK?
Honestly I don't have any feelings for them. The minimum guaranteed social pension before all of this was 800 Euro a month. I know people here working the whole month for the same money...please pay attention this is the SOCIAL pension from THE STATE, regardles of the fact if you ever worked in your life or not. When you hit 55 years of age you are start collecting....period. if you have OTHER pension from your work etc this is ON THE TOP of this social money.
What else to talk about??? No point, let them sink to the bottom of the ocean.
Now I would like to make it clear that I don't have ANYTHING against any Greek people, I have few Greek friends and I love Greek food, but the Greek here in the US are not the same as the lazy a$$h00le$ back in Greece.