it costs that much to fire people?

All those severance packages add up .-)

[quote]it costs that much to fire people?[/quote] Ever heard of trade unions? Been getting out of hand lately. I just found out that the legal limit of work per week in France is 35 hours. Which means if I have to work more, I CAN'T! Good thing i'm not in France. Bloody socialists collaborating with trade unions making retarded laws.

WOW ONLY 35 HOURS? Thats gotta be a joke. How does anyone in IT get anything done over there? Its illegal to get paid over time in France? That sucks, I willingly worked about 50 hours a week at my last job and put in 70 hours in my last week. Overtime = pretty paycheck

[quote]WOW ONLY 35 HOURS? Thats gotta be a joke. How does anyone in IT get anything done over there? Its illegal to get paid over time in France? That sucks, I willingly worked about 50 hours a week at my last job and put in 70 hours in my last week. Overtime = pretty paycheck[/quote] Exactly. If you watched the televised debate of Sarkozy vs Segolene last night, you'll see that one of the main points of sarkozy was to allow French workers to work to at least 38-40 hours per week but sanction a minimum of 20% increase per hour for the remaining hours over 35. While Segolene clearly said that it was a preposterous idea :) I think the French have the shortest work week in the world, incredibly high unemployment benefits, and also one of the highest unemployment rates of all the Developed countries, Last I checked it was over 12%, or was that Belgium? No I think Belgium was a bit less.

Wow if the US had 12% unemployment it would be total anarchy here.