There is a rather bizarre lawsuit in France that is likely to reaffirm the view of many that the French labor force is noncompetitive due to long-standing expectations of employees about mandatory work conditions, vacations, and protections. Frederic Desnard wants 360,000 euros (£300,000) under a claim of a “bore out” or boredom’s equivalent of burnout.
Desnard says that he is being “killed professionally through boredom” by his 80,000-euro-a-year job. He is an executive in a perfume business. Frankly, as the grandson of a coal miner on my Italian side and a cooper on my Irish side, I find the notion of a protected right to be engaged and excited by work to be rather precious. We should all strive for such fulfillment and you can quit to secure more engaging employment. However, to sue your employer because you are bored is rather presumptuous in my view. Many people are struggling to find employment today and only dream of a job with this type of compensation.
Yet, experts say that bored employees represent a serious health crisis and one expert,Dr Sandi Mann (referred to as a “Boredom expert” in these articles),says that workers likely die earlier to the boring conditions.
I do not question the health impact of such work, but I cannot imagine a legal basis for such a claim — or a way to rationally distinguish between jobs that are mildly engaging and jobs that are legally boring.
What do you think?
@squeek,
Thanks for sharing the acronyms – some of ’em I’m familiar with but most not.
So you my friend will get a kick out of this – I have often turned to Fox10 out of Phoenix as they always streamed Bernie rallies and townhalls — as well as Trump rallies many of which I’ve watched. Now I have been watching their coverage in Philly – the sound got cut on YouTube so I just called them. Hopefully they can fix it =)
@Autumn
Here’s my list:
IIRC= If I recall correctly.
BTW= By the way
OTOH= On the other hand
IMO= In my opinion
GFY = Go do naughty things to your self
FOAD = Go do naughty things to your self and die
IDK = I don’t know
WTF = What the naughty thing
OMG = Oh my God!
LOL, ROTFLMAO, LMAO = that was funny
POS = Piece of poop
Those are about the only ones I ever use. There are more common ones out there, but I usually have to look them up because I don’t use them enough. I don’t even use most of the ones in my list, although I did work FOAD into that last line of the German poem I wrote! 🙂
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
@Squeeky Fromm
How can such a creative, intelligent person as yourself support that 7th grade vocabulary narcissist? Is it your conservative religious commitment that puts you in that boat?
Squeek,
I know you are a Trumpster – couldn’t resist tugging your proverbial pig tails =) Hey, if not Jill than Trump. I, as well as other true Bernieorbusters, are down with that! We dislike Trump but fear HRC. Hey what is “IIRC”?
@Autumn
Oh no. I am for Trump. But I am more of a progressive on economic stuff. I think Trump is too. That is why his immediate response to minimum wages was to say they should go out. That is the real reason why the GOP Establishment doesn’t like him. Wages go up, and there is less money for them. If immigration goes down, and wages will go up, and once again, less money for them.
Hillary will accomplish the same thing through allowing the illegals to stay, plus she can stuff the ballot box, if not this year, in the next few years. If she throws a sop to the Progressives, and raises minimum wages toofast, she knows that unemployment will rise, or the jobs will simply become automated.
Plus, there is a little boo-boo with the Progressives’ proposed minimum wage hikes—- just suppose wages go up to $15/hour and there you are thinking “Wow! Now, everybody makes $32,000 a year!” Nope, the hours will just get cut back to 30 hours, and now you’re back to $20,000 per year. And just who is it who already lives 10 workers to a house, to share expenses??? You got it! Illegal immigrants!
Plus, what does it matter what the wages are here, if the jobs stay offshore??? Heck, the offshore workers are already cheaper than minimum wages. IIRC, $50 dollars or so per week is a decent salary in Mexico. Not bad for a short hop across the border.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
@squeek
you are so generous – are you sure you’re not a Bernie or Jill bot? =)
@Autumn @Squeeky Fromm
A closet Berner.
@TomWisdom
No, of course not. Please do, and tell them that anybody who wants to use it, to just go right ahead! I don’t even ask for attribution. Just whoever can use it, is free to use it. It is in a good cause!
Oh, and the easiest guitar chords for this can be found here. Just Em, G, C, and A are the only four chords:
http://www.cowboylyrics.com/tabs/baez-joan/the-night-they-drove-12723.html
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
@Squeeky Fromm
Posted it with your name attributed. Thanks!
Squeek,
Oh Lord – this just popped up – Nina and Don Rickles!!
Squeek, damn I hate it when that happens – wrong post
here it is:
@squeek
Love Ute Lemper – a true torch songstress.
Nina Hagen had formal training to be an opera singer – she has an incredible range!! The vulgarity of her lyrics offended the Stasi and when she masturbated live on stage that was the final straw so they kicked her to the West where we welcome free speech (and song!). Here’s another fav “Unschreiblich Weiblich” (undescribably female) She sings about the duty women are supposed to fulfill – have babies, STFU, etc.
@Autumn
Got it! Ute Lemper!!! Oh, I don’t have Alzheimers after all! Anyway, to keep it topical for a legal blog, here she is doing Mack the Knife, which is about a bunch of criminal defendants and should be of interest to all lawyers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHFXEPYU0FQ
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
@Autumn
Well, she was certainly animated. Like a cross between Patti Smith and Klaus Nomi. There is another German female singer, and the “south seas” chords in the Naturtrane song made me think of her, but I can not recall her name. I have a CD of her somewhere, that I ordered, and she sang some South Seas type of songs. . .I really like her. Oh fie! What was her name? I think she moved to America. . .I hate it when this happens!!!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
@Sqeeky Fromm
Do you mind if I post the lyrics on fb?
@squeek
things are gettin’ wilder
@Autumn
Und Falco??? Oh, Rock Me Amadeus! I love the 99 LuftBalloons one, which was Nena IIRC! But I also like Rauf Paulsen, and his Bonanza remake. And one of the most beautiful renditions of Une Bel Dei is by Maria Cebotari, who I think was German. maybe Hungarian. She was like from the 20’s or 30’s and I just stumbled across her trying to learn the English version. Also Maria Rokk who was WWII era and beyond. I used her in a post once a few years ago. It was her in the jungle, and a cheesy rocket. But it was well staged and choreographed.
One nice thing about the 21st century is that anybody, rich or poor, can easily rediscover the old performers from the past to the present, from all over the whole world. Or the entire world of classical music. I think somebody should do cable channels with just this sort of thing.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
@squeek
@squeek
thanx for sharing that video. I’m stuck in the 1970s-1980s – Nina Hagen (punk gal kicked out of East Germany due to her perverse lyrics), Ideal, Nena, Kraftwerk, FischerZ, Schweissfuess, etc.
@Tom Wisdom
Thank you!!! I am glad you liked it! The phrase that you used did not sound like like the word. I hate to admit it, but when I was in college, I read some of those early erotic books and stories, like Anais Nin’s “The Delta Blues”, and Venus in Furs, and some tropical sex stuff by Henry Miller, and even some of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ erotic books, although a lot of it was really gay. Which, now that I think about it, makes me wonder if Tarzan “swung both ways”??? Anyway, all of this was like it was uh er uh . . . for school! Yes, for school!
I think maybe that is where I came across the word, and I don’t want to go and reread all that stuff because it has taken years to get my mind back to normal. Plus, I am not even sure if I still those books, in their brown bags, stuffed in the back of my closet. But I know the word is out there! Thank you for trying!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
@Autumn
German Rap??? Then you must be into Seeed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYg9omPYx_M
Ich habe the CD, and this is slightly different from the first CD version, but it’s at least 90% the same. There is another German group, a newer one called AnnenMayKantereit, and they sing in both German and English. Mostly German, Their lead singer has a fantastic voice! You can’t turn him off, even if you don’t understand a word he is saying.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
@Squeeky Fromm
Love the poem and the lyrics for the song— very creative!
Could the french phrase be: découvrir en reniflant?
@Darren
@squeek
I too am a big Kubrick fan, but I thought “Eyes Wide Shut” was his worst film. My favs are 2001: A Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket, Dr. Strangelove, Clockwork Orange**, The Killing, Path of Glory (I felt like I was there in the trenches!), and Spartacus. Never saw The Shining as I don’t do horror.
Clockwork Orange was so vivid I wish I hadn’t seen it! to this day when I go to an optimotrist or opthamologist I have to take a tranquilizer beforehand to prevent a panic attack!!