Comments on: Indentured Employertude

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:01:00 +0000

France is absolutely essential. Without France, what would we point to when discussing economics with fuzzy-brained socialists, when we needed to offer an example of why socialism doesn’t work without secret police?

By: phuong

phuong — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:26:49 +0000

Hallo, hallo, hallo, hallo, hallodjsaljgfdl

By: BridgetB

BridgetB — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:23:14 +0000

Ahhh the problems of the false dichotomy & subjectivism rear their ugly heads. Obviously the opposite of oppression is... more oppression! When will the ends stop justifying the means? Good job France.

Great post Coyote. Nailed on its head yet again.

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By: James Stephenson

James Stephenson — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:50:32 +0000

I worked for a German Software Company, they had people in the Mailroom making Programmer salaries. No wonder they ended up buying an American Software shop.

By: LF

LF — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:55:21 +0000

I think the idea of France is great. Let all our socialists move there and all their capitalists move here.

By: BM

BM — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 05:12:39 +0000

Having worked for a French company for a couple of years now it is amazing to see the attitudes change when folks from France come here to work. In the beginning they are sure that they are so smart and we Americans are so screwed up. It takes about one year and they see begin to see the “wackiness” of the French system. But in the end they are not stupid (think airplanes, rockets and nuclear power plants…); but my small American mind can’t quite figure out how they do it.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 00:38:53 +0000

My proposal was meant to be satirical, a la Jonathan Swift…

By: TC

TC — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 22:18:58 +0000

"Is France a total loss?"

Probably, another few years will tell for sure.

Tenure is the second largest fiasco we have in this nation, it is why our children continue to be turned out dumber each and every year, it allows the profs in higher education to prothelize to our children rather than provide them an education.

By: Ben Casnocha: The Blog

Ben Casnocha: The Blog — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 21:48:06 +0000

French Youth Cry Foul — No At-Will Employment!

I’m ashamed for my fellow 18-25 year old’s who are marching and rioting in the streets of Paris right now against……at-will employment. See Coyote Blog for a brief bit on the ridiculousness of this. I will have to seek out

By: Doug

Doug — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 20:03:46 +0000

That isn’t uniquely French. A similar attitude has popped up in this country among government employees, union members and especially government employee union members. For example, a lot of ink and bytes have been used lately to report that it can take years to discharge an incompetent teacher in NYC and is often considered not worth the effort.