I love it so much that you started making these longer videos. They are both educational (about cultural differences) as wel as super funny and entertaining!😂
My favorite difference between working in France and working in the US is everyone drinking coffee in tiny cups in France and big giant mugs in the US.
If you're doing a video on coffee culture between countries, please include Australian coffee culture in there too! We're one of the few countries in the world where Starbucks failed because it just couldn't compete with our existing coffee scene, for which we're very proud 😛 Edit: If you start a fight between Melburnians and Sydneysiders over which city has the best coffee, even better 😂
Im from italy in the south of italy professional mourners at funerals used to be absolutely normal they were given food or clothes sometimes money… this tradition is almost lost now maybe they are still doing it in some small remote villages…
I was an letter screener for letters being sent to soldiers in Afghanistan. There was an initiative encouraging children, and anyone else for that matter, to write to the soldiers. These letters were sent to the chaplin, and we screened the content for vulgarity, nudity, and death. There was a surprising amount of kids drawing bloody "terrorists" and vets trying to pass on playboys to active duty personnel. Very strange job. I looked through tens of thousands of envelopes. It was a temp job.
Attention quand même, la pause clope n’est pas « légale ». C’est une tolérance de longue date mais il y a de la jurisprudence sur cette pratique et il n’y a absolument aucune obligation pour l’entreprise de respecter la pause clope. 😉 Perso, dans certains taff, j’avais fini par faire des « pauses pas-clope » car j’en avais marre que mes collègues fumeurs puissent s’absenter sans arrêt 10-20 minutes pendant que je me récupérais leur travail sans faire de pause
Il y a 2 pauses de 15 minutes pour 6 heures et plus de boulot et 3 pauses de 15 minutes pour 9 heures et plus de boulot selon le code du travail en France. Libre à toi de faire autre chose que fumer pendant cette pause (par exemple prendre une seule pause de 30 et manger au lieu de 2 de 15)
Ya. I have the same problem with that in health care as well. And most of the time they usually end up getting by with "extra" breaks BECAUSE they "NEED" to smoke.
En même temps(tm) c'était plutôt par humour je suppose dans la vidéo, oui il y a des "pauses" légales (et c'est tant mieux car utile dans plein d'activités pour le corps et l'esprit), et certains les institutionnalisent comme pause clope qui devient parfois aussi le point de contact et d'échange d'informations ce qui fluidifie le travail
Isn't the Japanese acceptance of sleeping at work because they are overworked and don't get enough rest at home? I don't think it's a positive aspect of their working culture.
Well when compared to the American work culture of all work all the time and not ever being allowed to disconnect from work in some jobs, it’s kinda the same thing
yeah you got it spot on for the "black companies" of Japan.. the companies that are notorious for overworking all employees and paying just enough to survive and not much better .... which in THAT aspect, is like EVERY single jobs expectations in America. either that or they ensure you have hours off to save the company money from not paying for benefits like they legally should, which keeps you balanced nicely on the edge of being homeless and as they are trying to call it now, "unhoused"
@@malkavianloner8808 I never got the whole “homeless vs “”unhoused””” vocabulary war. Like what’s the difference? Homeless was never really used as an insult the same way say like “fat” has been.
Loving this new format Loïc can't wait to see more. I've worked in the US +10 years but never in France. But I've had a friend who worked in NYC in finance and it wasn't uncommon to work 60+ hrs a week. But some french workers do work much longer, ie bakers.
I'm in Canada and for all positions that I have worked, private and public sector, a regular work week is 35 hours with a minimum of three weeks paid vacation for those who are starting out. Smaller private employers have variations on that, but the minimum is 4% paid vacation, minimum wages and anything over 80 hours bi weekly is overtime.
I’m in Canada also. Don’t know which province you’re in but in most provinces I know has 40 hrs week with minimum of two weeks of vacation; not 3. 80 hrs biweekly would be 40 hrs weekly.
@@KNg-pt8wf Quebec, minimum is indeed 2 weeks or 4%, but most professional or office jobs will start you off with 3 weeks. Jobs will vary from 35, 37.5 and 40 hr work weeks, though 40 hrs is the least common, but overtime, aka 1.5x pay, doesn't apply until you go above 40 hours regardless of your usual work week. It's also not uncommon to see office jobs offer shorter work weeks for summer, like half-hour less per day or half-day fridays.
You’re also often not supposed to go home until your boss does, even if it leaves you stuck at the office hours longer than your work day is supposed to be.
Spain’s lunch breaks aren’t for siesta by design, but taking a nap during lunch break is still possible and even a sensible thing to do for some. Small-business retail is usually closed from 1-2pm to 4-5pm. The reason might not be siesta per se, but the egregiously late dinner hours (9-10pm) make it so that people tend to buy groceries and stuff after office hours. One important thing to consider is time is shifted at least 1 hour too late, being that Spain is misplaced in Central European Time since 1940 because Franco wanted Spain to be in line with German time during nazi regime. And it stuck. Daylight savings time and being closer to the tropic makes it so that dusk in summer hits well beyond 10pm, making it customary to dine out late. E.g. restaurants throughout Spain rarely serve dinner before 8pm. While we’re talking summer, it is dangerous to be out and about in the densely populated south coast from 12-4pm, at ~40°C. People just won’t and shouldn’t work in these extreme conditions, elders are instructed to stay in etc. so it mostly makes no sense to run any kind of outdoors business (and there’s A LOT of that in Spain). All in all, being that the workday starts at 8-9am and ends at 7-8pm. The reasonable thing to do with those big lunch breaks is to take a good nap after lunch while sleeping less at night. It’s particularly telling that the evening news start at 8.30-9pm and late night TV usually starts at around 11pm lasting until well past midnight. Yes, workdays too. Thanks to Franco, to intense heat and to lasting daylight, considering retail and hospitality are big economy drivers, Spain’s day schedule is tits up compared to anywhere else in Europe. Italy and Greece fare similarly, except they do belong to their natural time zones which eases things off a bit.
Up next: Life Makes No Sense, where Loic guides us through the history of mankind and various cultural and philosophical stances, getting to a conclusion that maybe we should cheer up a little and not take everything so seriously in everyday life 😊
Dude I would actually watch that I mean I'll watch anything Loic makes but my point is Loic please do this Like a "finding joy accross cultures" kind of thing I think the world could use it :)
Thank you Loic for posting this video today! I was just told that I have a non cancerous brain tumor which I did surgery for yesterday. This video has really my day!
Living in a small town in Spain with everything within walking distance, it was not uncommon to leave during the workday to get some personal business done while the shops were open: buying stamps, picking up clothing at the dry-cleaners, dropping off an item that needed repair, etc. Also, doing the same for things that were needed at work, like buying a replacement lightbulb because one burned out, or getting a cake at the pastry shop for a co-workers birthday, ink for the printer, a duplicate key made for a new employee, stuff like that. Also I wanted to mention that the downtime of siesta in Spain is offset by the evening/night work hours that extended almost until bedtime. Spain's normal work day is in two parts: breakfast to siesta, and then siesta to dinner. Breakfast is right after waking up, and dinner is right before going to bed at night. USA work day is in three parts: breakfast to lunch, lunch to dinner, and dinner to bedtime.
American here, lived in Germany for a few years. Another difference I noted was in "customer service." In the US, it's generally expected to be friendly and enthusiastic with customers, "put on a happy face." In Germany, no one was going to fake a smile to make the customer feel more welcome. That's not to say people were always grumpy at their jobs or rude to customers, they just weren't going to fake it to get a good customer review. The important thing is that they do their job well, not how much they fake a smile throughout it. I'd also posit that part of the issue in the US isn't just the companies/owners making their workers work too much. It's often influenced by the customers. Where I live, Walmart used to be open 24/7. (Covid changed that). It was convenient to have the store open in case you needed to get something suddenly at 3 am. Convenient, but not necessary. But I guarantee people were upset when Walmart switched to closing at midnight, because that option for convenience was suddenly gone, even if they almost never used it. Customer expectations and demands often influence the companies and what they'll force the workers do to please the customers.
Sleep at work makes sense: as an employer I want employees to rest well to increase productivity, but I do not want them to use that free time to work on another job (in that case they won't rest). At least for programmers, maximum time of actual intensive work per day is about 4 hours. However, there is a better method: just pay them enough so they won't need another job.
The "waste detectives" in Germany don't come to your house and search your trash. 😂 If you throw away your trash into the woods for example, that's illegal and THEN they come to investigate.
They are mostly employees of the regulatory authority "Ordnungamt". The regulatory authority is an agency that deals with matters within a community or a city. Stationary traffic, garbage, noise emissions, and such things. And yes, it's of course about illegal waste disposal in the environment. Waste disposal costs money, and there are always idiots who think they need to dump their garbage just anywhere. All citizens pay for disposal. So it makes sense to take a closer look and see who caused the costs. So this job makes totally sense.
They also hang out near the glass container to fine you if you throw in glass out of the legal lefal time window. To keep noise down. I wish I was kidding. Costed me 20€ =P
Exactly. On the point of garbage in the wrong bins: even if you throw the wrong garbage into the wrong bins, usually nothing much happens. If it gets too obvious, the garbage collectors might refuse to collect your garbage and just leave your bins full until you sort your garbage properly. But they don't do that without warning you in writing first.
@@AuroraBorealis1990 This happened to a friend of mine. Some of the tenants in the same apartment building kept using the wrong trash cans and they were not picked up. The owners had to pay extra to get the bins picked up.
Hello Loic! Love your stuff!! As a Japanese man living in Korea, the Korean drinking thing after work is called "hwé-shik" (회식), although every Korean above drinking age uses that word as an excuse to "drink while discussing business". But it's not a "fun bonding" thing as you said, many of the workers actually dislike it because of the hierarchical structure of Korean companies. And you REALLY gotta kiss your boss' ass HARD. It's the same in Japan, which we call "nomikai" (飲み会). Recently with generations changing the hweshik and nomikai culture is disappearing for the mental (and physical with all the drinking) health of the workers. Some higher ups prefer this too, like my boss, who'd prefer to spend that at home or Friday evenings with his kids! Oh, did I mention most nomikais and hweshiks are on Fridays? So you get to enjoy your weekend hungover (fun!). And if you have a boss who's an alcoholic and drinks soju like its water like my first boss, you can kiss your personal life goodbye!
There is no "siesta break" in Spain. Perhaps that was normal decades ago, but not even my parents had that. I believe that's just a cliché. Normal working hours here are starting at 7-9am, 1h lunch break, and ending at 5-7pm. 40h a week. If you work for the public administration usually you have 8 to 3pm and 35h per week. Sorry for the correction and thanks for your videos!
I was in several Spanish cities, including Madrid, in 2006 and regularly ran into everything being closed for a couple hours midday. Hungry? Only American fast food was open. The cities became ghost towns.
@@FlatulentWhale I believe you are talking about restaurants. Kitchens usually open for breakfast at 7-8 until 11-12, and then kitchen opens for lunch 1 to 4pm, opening again for dinner at 8 to 11pm. Thats nothing to do with "siesta breaks", but to the Spanish eating schedule ;)
I agree it's not common, but these jobs still exist. A friend of mine works as an accountant in a factory, and has a break from 2 to 4. Also, if you have your own shop (not a franchise), you close from 2 to 5.
If you work 10 minutes from home, I guess it's alright. But if you are at least 30 minute distance from home, what are you supposed to do for the 2 hours?e@@ricardotrivinosanchez3789
In Spain, the 2 to 5 pm break isn't electible. It just means you have a shitty schedule xD bc you work in the mornings and afternoons, but you get paid ordinary salary. So that break is wasted time. Companies don't have beds or sofas to sleep on (it would be thoughtful though haha). No one I know who works that schedule likes it ^^U It persist bc lots of stores and companies have that opening hours. It makes sense in some places here in summer, where 2 to 5 pm is so hot you can't make physical effort and need to be inside, sheltered from the heat. That schedule, we call it split schedule (horario partido).
In India, dabba walas are actually a boon for the office goers because most of them working in the private sector don't have enough time to cook for themselves due to their daily working hours/workload 😅😅 Though at present, tiffin services are available in all the major Indian cities
Also the price is very convenient. I found it is a great idea for a gift. My parents in law received every day a tiffin, that was like a membership hired for their daughter. So they would not need to cook every day.
Hi Lou, love your content. One thing you forgot to mention was how cultures discuss salaries. In the states, openly discussing how much you make to other co-workers is not only frowned upon, but can get you fired. It’s considered so personal that even with most family members or friends it’s not discussed. In Colombia 🇨🇴 where I was born however, it is very openly discussed (from what I remember) and even strangers ask you “how much you make?”
It is actually illegal in the US to prevent employees from discussing salary. Companies hate it so much that they suppress knowledge of this and will threaten to fire people, but they are not supposed to.
In Australia too it's historically been frowned upon to discuss salary and companies were even allowed to put salary secrecy clauses into their contracts. But the law changed last year that made that illegal in new contracts, because it's a blatantly unfair practice that stops people from being able to organise and demand to be paid what they're worth! Remember, salary secrecy isn't to protect you; it's to protect your employer from having to pay equal wages for equal work
Interesting. In Brazil, at least where I work, the salary of every employee is open to be checked/seen by everyone, every month. It happens with everyone who work for the government. Anyone can check the salary of any employee by searching his/her name. It is called "Transparência Publica". It is a way to show how the government spend the money
@@FS_5023perfect Flavio, Brazil is doing it right, there needs to be full transparency with salaries. In the states, human resources do not want this so that they can pay workers the most minimum they can, or be unfair with wages and get away with it.
The siesta hours in Spain are a bit different. They mostly only apply for stores and restaurants, which actually close from 2 to 5 to have proper eating and siesta. This happens because originally most of the time a single person did all the shifts, so they had to have a bigger break time. In other jobs like in offices, most people work 9 to 5 without the "siesta" break.
Another thing is that usually in summer, when the sun is at its peak (mediodía), it's too hot for outside jobs to work (farmers and others) in a large portion of the country. So it makes sense to stop working and wait till the temperature goes down a little bit.
I love hearing about neat cultural differences between countries such as these! It's both fascinating to learn about, important for working with folks both in and from other countries, and also just to show that whatever is "normal" to us isn't some natural human inevitability and that we _can_ take inspiration from others to make our own lives even better 😊
I must point out that the Spanish time for siesta (and picking up your children, going home, cooking, eating, washing the dishes and turning back to work) is from 2 pm to 4 pm, and it may be caused by the temperatures in most of Spain at this time. Even though, currently this is something that affects some shops, bookshops, etc. but not the most common working hours. Aaaalso, we work until later than in France.
I’m American in the U.S. I worked in an American hospital for 37 years. Long hours, always more than 40 hours/week, 1/2 hour unpaid lunch that was usually interrupted by a STAT call or Code Blue, crappy PTO. Retired as soon as I could at 62. Should have moved to France!
love the new format, this video was so funny , the bike fisherman and the german trash police 😂😂😂 . i have a cousin who lives in Germany and when we visited her she was very insistently asking us to put the trash in a million categories, she was stressed about the trash mixing, now i can better understand why
I appreciate the effort, the content is well done, and funny, and interesting.... but I find the language short videos, and the long ones, funnier and shareable, don't abandon that, please!
30 days of paid vacation doesn‘t translate to 1 month as it is shown on the calendar at 1:33 min. It's six weeks when you work a regular Monday-to-Friday-job. Saturday and Sunday are off already. So, if you want to go on a three weeks vacation you only need to take 15 days of the 30 days.
I am French and lived in the US for 10 years. Work environment highly depends on the industry you are. Me and my husband work in biotechnologies in research while my sister works in finance in Paris. My days are much much shorter and relax that hers. Will never exchange my work against hers. However I would gladly take her vacation time! I have 4 weeks including the shut down during Christmas while she has 9 weeks of vacation (including RTT because she works 39 hours per week and the extra 4 hours over 35 are pqid vacation)!
@@IoT_ yes definitely. We live in Boston which is the capital of Biotechs (at least medical) and there are more jobs than applicants. Quite easy to find a job and negotiate a very good salary. I wish it was the same in France but it is not. I love my country but I wouldn’t go back. My kids have a much better life here, definitely. However, I am aware that it is because I was lucky to study for free in France, I don’t have to pay off my master’s degree, and also I do have a diploma that gives me the freedom to chose the job I want and I love. There is good and bad everywhere I guess 🙂
@@zohramerazga-vivien9045 I can understand. I am, myself, residing in Italy and the salary here is even more laughable than in France - 1600 euros a month. Unfortunately, I'm not an EU or an American citizen to get the chance to work in the USA, although I was in Boston, and it's quite a nice tranquille place to live. I'm happy for you. ☺️
Those Chinese professional mourners were also a thing in some parts of Spain. In fact, in Galicia (Northwest Spain) there's the expression (in Galician) "vai chorar a Cangas" ("go and cry in Cangas"), Cangas being the name of a village where, back in the 19th century, they had many of these "professional mourners". On the other hand, we actually don't have that "siesta time" as a legal thing in Spain. Many jobs are 8 hours straight, or 9 with one hour in the middle but for lunch (unless you prefer sleeping, but that's your choice). Some other jobs have a morning and an afternoon schedule, meaning there may be upt to 2,5-3 hours between the morning turn and the afternoon turn. So, in these cases you may have time for lunch and a siesta. But this kind of jobs are usually in small businesses and workers use that time to go and pick up their children from school, prepare lunch, having lunch, etc., not actually sleeping. So, all in all, yes, it may happen but it's not actually a thing. Maybe in summer in the southern regions, where it's too hot at noon to make any work outdoors, people may take a nap after lunc.
I'm Spanish and I've never in my life took a nap in the middle of a working day, that's maybe normal in construction sites, in fact, at least on IT, if we can shorten the lunch time to get out earlier, we do so.
Talk about weird jobs - in Singapore, during the pandemic, they created the job of 'safe distancing enforcement officers' to police the public areas as there were so many people out of work and the government was trying to create new jobs and tackle the spread of Covid at the same time. Needless to say, the people who took these jobs (usually those who were very working class and not very educated) often became over-zealous with their new found power and went over the top power crazy and they became so hated in Singapore during that period. There were horror stories of these safe distancing officers trying to separate husband and wife in public even though they sleep in the same bed and even separate parents from their infants - like there was a total absence of any kind of logic or common sense and that's the kind of ridiculous crap that can only happen in Singapore.
Comment on China and funerals: In Vienna people wire hired for the same reason. They were called Pompfüneberer. Though it is slang, the word derives from French pomp funebre, which means escort of funeral procession.
In my country you only get half an hour for lunch. My french teacher had a culture shock when we were learning about food, and she said in France it's 2 hours... Well, in my industry it's pretty lax and nobody is watching whether you came on time or not, as long as you work that lost time later... but I know places, that you are timed to the seconds *cough cough* supermarkets *cough cough* and you get reprimanded if you clock in later. When I worked there, I usually just ate small little sandwich in the changing room, cause there was literally no time to go to the food court to buy any warm meal and eat it too in just 30minutes. Enjoy your lunch hours XD
I've been an IT consultant for over 20 years, including projects that were directed from the US and from France. Francophone teams (not just France but Belgium and French-speaking Switzerland) tend to split work a lot. I've had contracts which were a few weeks, to do a specific task within the project. Think "ok, we're making a meal... there will be a salad... we need someone to prepare the sauce for the salad, get me a salad sauce specialist"; I was the salad sauce specialist. The German-speakers split work almost as much but not quite: a German project might hire me to prepare both the salad sauce and the meat sauce. They prefer to pay all-inclusive and not have to worry about expenses, who has time to look at all those tickets anyway. When a German company wants expenses reported, it's a pain: "why do you have a meal in Munich airport?" "because the only flight available for that day was Frankfurt-Munich, Munich-Barcelona and I need to eat", "there are direct flights Frankfurt-Barcelona", "yes but there weren't any seats in those, you hired me on Friday and wanted me in Frankfurt Monday 8am'; I had to switch in Munich both on Monday and Thursday, and Thursday it was lunchtime". The US likes having backups; people whose job description isn't identical but overlays, so any given function will be covered if someone has the lack of decency to die of a heart attack before their work is completed. Getting expenses paid is akin to getting your medical insurer to pay for anything... well, ok, not quite as bad, but almost. Rules on how to report expenses, what's expendable, timeliness for reporting etc. appear to be set by different people who don't talk to each other. Spanish-speakers, Portuguese-speakers and British, just squeeze as much as you can from every single person. In any of those jobs I could wear two or three hats (fourteen or twenty-one by French standards). At the same time, even the worst boss there would die before calling you when you're off; the only reason they would do it is to say "the location burnt down, don't come in, we'll keep you updated". And they pay expenses without a hitch. French-American projects... O. M. G. Bring something to read, in PDF or word-readable format so you can look like you're terribly busy. Between French micronization and American overlap you're going to have a loooooooot of time to catch up on those classics you only skimmed for your schoolwork. And of course the two project managers (one French, one American) don't ever see eye to eye when it comes to how to organize things, when to move forward, etc. I've had several of those; one which in most locations would have lasted 10 months actually finished _2 months short of the 5-year mark._ We know because one of the consultants lived nearby and it was his last project (in fact he'd had his retirement paperwork all set up and ready to hand in when he was called), so he stayed until the end while telling himself "think of the piggybank... and hey, you're sleeping at home and seeing your wife every day... think of the piggybank"; he sent an email to everybody who'd been part of the project on the day it finished, titled "we did NOT reach 5 years".
"So, if you've been looking for a change in your career, I hope I gave you some ideas... Or maybe not !?" 👌🏻 Just loved it. Keep going on with your videos, it's so fun to watch
The professional mourners were very common in Europe in 19th century. I think this is one of the oldest jobs. If a person was rich they would employ them. Th other weird job I heard of is queue keepers. I think they became popular in the USA and mainly done by students or retirees. You pay the person to stand in the queue instead of you. This is mostly common when a new and very popular product comes to market.
7:31 They don't check if you separate your house waste correct. They hunt for people which illegally dump their waste in the nature and not in the trashcans. And unfortunately this happens way to often. So this job makes absolute sense. Greetings from Germany.
In Romania, till ( around 30-40 years ago), people were still hiring the so called "bocitoare" (whistlers), in relation with Japanase culture. These were supposed to make a crying lyrics for the deceased person. I lived this on my own at my grandpa funerals 30 y ago. Was so strange...
I loved it 😂 Also, I was expecting something about the common "You need experience for the job" But, how to get experience when you're always required to have experience so you can be hired even for your first job 😂
We actually used to have something like professional mourners in Finland. They were called "itkijä naiset" or "wailing women" and their job was to memorize and recite all the common sorrowful hymns and write obituaries or commemorative poems to the deceased.
Salut from Barcelona (Spain). Just to clarify, I only seen about work breaks for "siesta" in foreigner tabloids. In many workplaces we also have one hour non paid break for lunch at work. Something that we actually also have, in some workplaces, is a 2 to 3 hours lunch break (also non paid) just to can go lunch at home with our families. Our childs also have this break in their lectures to can go home for lunch. But this is not in all our workplaces nowadays and definitely not for "siesta". That's a bullshit sprouted by foreign bad intentionate medias trying to call us lazy. Our working day still has to be 8h not breaks included.
Professional Mouners were a thing in Europe until the 19th Century. In France they were called "Les Pleureuses". Most of the time this job was perfomed by widows of respectable age and apperance.
I first saw those Indian lunchboxes in Bollywood movies and thought the design was ingenious! So cuz this video now i know what they're called too - tiffins with optional dabba wala service in cities.👍
In France from 1982 to 2004, there was a thing called "Motocrottes" which translate to "PoopMotorbike"... It was to collect dog sh*t that was left behind by dog owners all over Paris, What a NICE job 😂
Here in St. Lucia (Go Julien), we get 30 working days (Weekends and holidays are not counted) paid vacation and 14 working days for those just starting. At some businesses, like where I work, there is a 15min tea break from 10:00am. Additionally, if a holiday falls on Sunday, that holiday is transferred to the following Monday (no work). So yeah, no stress here at all.
Discussing business in a place with extreme humidity and temperature seems like a great idea, regardless if you wanna stay analog and bring paper files to discuss or if you wanna bring a laptop/tablet, and I guess the projections from the beamer onto the wood panels in the sauna might take some adjusting...
Just been an au pair in the US. I can confirm that they are crazy about working. It's like their whole life revolves around their work. That's why they get au pairs! 🙃 That got me so depressed, really! They have like 2 weeks of vacations per year, close to no national vacations (MLK day, Christmas, 4th of July... Thanksgiving and maybe the 1st of January, + labour day and that's all) and in some professions, you can be called on a vacation day, you can't refuse, and you don't have any limit when it comes to the hours you get to work... They also take advantage of their days off to "get some work done" which is just crazy to me: on a day off, it doesn't matter how far behind you are in your work, that day is for you to REST and ENJOY! Just have amnesia for one day, you can deal with your shit tomorrow! Really, I'd never work in the US!
That’s a lot more national holidays off than anyone in retail gets. Walmart closed 2 days a year, Christmas and thanksgiving but employees work thanksgiving prepping for the insane Black Friday sales the next day,then Walmart started backing that up to start after Christmas sales on Christmas evening and paid vacation was only for full time employees but Walmart made sure to keep you from meeting those criteria. You have to work more than so many hours every week for so many consecutive weeks. The last week before being considered full time you would get scheduled like 8 hours for the whole week but spread over 3 days.
@@Blublizzy13 that's terrible lol! Glad I don't need to work there! Tbh my host parents didn't have the national holidays off! They were paramedic and doctor, and people need medical care all the time so they had to take days off to actually have vacations during the year! Their situation was pretty bad too... Idk how it's possible to bear that for years! I would go insane personally, vacations is all I live for!
Inemuri resulted from a practice colloquially known as a "death march", (they use borrowed words from English for the term) where office workers will continue working entire days straight without going home if there's an upcoming project deadline. It's a big contributor to the high suicide rate there. Also, that sauna thing is a ridiculous idea. The papers would get all damp. 😝
I mean it's kind of a meme and I get where you come from, but there are tons of jobs that don't require previous work experience and only some form of education.
In the past about 50 years ago in Egypt, people used to hire a woman for crying and wailing in their funerals and the woman start to say how much was the dead one kind and lovely and all his family won't forget him 😂😂
And then there's Mexico with the weekly 48 hours at work 😭, there's a proposition of 40 weekly hours currently waiting to be accepted by the government but it's taking soo long 😔
New short idea: Universal language: Sooo what will you name this:🧍🏻♂️? English: We will keep easy and simple. It will be "man". Universal language: Ok, easy and simple I like that. Now you German. German: We will call It "mann" similiar to English. Universal language: Doesn't "mann" mean husband in German? Nevermind. It's your turn now Polish. Polish: We will call it *"MĘŻCZYZNA".* Universal language: WHAT THE FU-
As a dutch guy, yeah losing bikes in the canal happens a lot because people just wanna be pricks too. Or someone destroyed it or made it unuseable in any other way and they just toss it in there. Happens a lot with shopping carts too.
I'm from Madascar and some people earn money by helping you park. They come out of nowhere and yell at you if you're too close to the wall while parking. Then they come at your window and expect money.
New Zealand has 2 ten minute paid breaks for morning and afternoon tea, which can sometimes be taken as 4 five minute smoke breaks if the employee is a smoker (depending on if the workplace allow it)
Yeah... In Germany we separate the trash into plastic, paper, bio, glass (there are different glass colors though) and the remaining trash bins... Kinda nuts to be honest. Also I thought, that French do have a siesta, because I assure you the breaks they take in the middle of the day are close to those in Italy and in Italy if you happen to need something - even medicine - during siesta hours, you better be prepared to wait a ton of time to get it.
Then why is many food so... terribly bad in French supermarkets? No, food was important once, but nowadays McDo, Cojean ou le kébab.. @@herveschlaflang301
German here~ we have what? And how many bins?! I'm aware of the black one for everything else, the brown one for composable waste, the blue one for paper and the (it's somewhat new to have a whole bin for that, it is more common a sack you get at the local public office) the yellow one for recycable things like foil or plastics... We do have containers for glass especially (and we don't throw just all glass in one. You need to seperate clear or white glass, brown glass and green or colorful glass) and we have containers for old clothes, so they get donated to be sold in second hand shops... Or something like that... But you don't NEED to use them (it's a bit of a "I don't wear this, but it's completely fine, so it's too good to just throw it in the trash") and for all the big stuff we have "recyclinghöfe"... It's not that much bins... Yeah, industrial waste is way more complicated with copper, aluminum and general metalic waste seperated for example and don't ever just throw out old oil. Better take it to recyclinghof. But it's not that much bins! ... Yeah... We do seperate quite much to be honest... And never throw a bottle with pfand in the trash! That's money you (or someone less fortunate) can collect!
@@KNg-pt8wf Nope, the glass containers are not bins at your house, the are special container dispersed throughout the districts. So 4 bins, and if you've got a composter you don't need the brown bin. So 3 bins
Hello Loïc ! I am french and i do work more than 35 hours a week, and it is not conferred as overtime, and hopefully it is not a particular case 😂 The thing is, if your working contract asks you to work more than 35 hrs a week, you will have recovery time every month - like half a day of recovery, see that like extra holidays 😉 And there are many other working contracts - engineers are mainly on that types - where you have no “minimum time” to do, but if your job is not done, you’re fired 😅 And in that cases people work way too much and more than 40 hrs a week 😬
That recovery time you get when working more than 35hs/week (RTT) is calculated to compensate overtime (so working 40hs/week will get you 5hs/week compensation) using those is mandatory, so in theory everyone should work 35hs/week in average (unless they work more than their contract demands and never declare it ofc)
hello, thanks for your vid 😊 ! France here, professional mourners were in France too (till XIXth, even XXth century, they were called ... Pleureuses. But that kind of job exist from Antic time (Antic Greek, even Antic Egypt). Encore merci pour tes vidéos😊!
1:40 idem, si tu as travaillé aux US, oui il y a moins de jours de congés... mais tu ne parles pas des "sick days" qui doublent ce quota (et que la plupart utilisent comme des vacances), ce qui équivaut du coup à peu près aux vacances en france. Les US sont aussi généralement plus généreux pour les vacances de noël et ferment les bureaux tout en payant leurs employés
Here in Australia, it's also normal to have a coffee break similar to the Swedish fika, but usually only once per day max (so either in the morning or in the afternoon). Of course, it's not mandatory and a lot of folks don't join, either due to disinterest or workload, but I've always found it extremely valuable both to build a bond as a team and also as a more casual environment to learn about (and often find solutions to/direct to relevant person to solve problems with) what other people are working on 😊 There's also the concept of a "smoko", which is a smoking break like the French have, but it's falling out of favour these days with smoking becoming less common and more looked down upon. But even so, I've had friends in jobs that haven't given them enough proper breaks start smoking so they could use it as an excuse to get 5 mins of peace. Luckily they've both stopped and found better jobs since then...
I love it so much that you started making these longer videos. They are both educational (about cultural differences) as wel as super funny and entertaining!😂
My favorite difference between working in France and working in the US is everyone drinking coffee in tiny cups in France and big giant mugs in the US.
Don’t spoil my upcoming videos ! 😂🤪😋
If you're doing a video on coffee culture between countries, please include Australian coffee culture in there too! We're one of the few countries in the world where Starbucks failed because it just couldn't compete with our existing coffee scene, for which we're very proud 😛
Edit: If you start a fight between Melburnians and Sydneysiders over which city has the best coffee, even better 😂
In the Usa, they don't drink coffee, just water. 😂
@@mmichel2436 They also don't drink soda, going by the measure, just instant diabetes.
If you filled your mug with expressos your heart wont last long.
Lol, I'm Dutch and when you said "bike fisherman" I immediately wondered how you can bike while fishing XD
Or fish while biking! Me too 😂
I thought the same thing and I’m American. I was picturing someone riding a bike next to a canal and fishing in the canal while riding the bike. 😂
I guess that’s how all these bikes ended here.
Im from italy in the south of italy professional mourners at funerals used to be absolutely normal they were given food or clothes sometimes money… this tradition is almost lost now maybe they are still doing it in some small remote villages…
Are you not doing everything with bikes I mean fiets?
Merry Christmas! Happy new year! I hope you guys will enjoy this new video! In the meantime, let me know what’s the weirdest job you’ve ever had? :)
Frohe Weihnachten 🎄
Pls i have a question, Are you french ?
@@Begula_Offyes he is. merry christmas by the way
@@Begula_Off hum, he said it at the beginning of the video, at 0:06 and in his bio too (comme toi d'ailleurs)
I was an letter screener for letters being sent to soldiers in Afghanistan. There was an initiative encouraging children, and anyone else for that matter, to write to the soldiers. These letters were sent to the chaplin, and we screened the content for vulgarity, nudity, and death. There was a surprising amount of kids drawing bloody "terrorists" and vets trying to pass on playboys to active duty personnel. Very strange job. I looked through tens of thousands of envelopes. It was a temp job.
Attention quand même, la pause clope n’est pas « légale ». C’est une tolérance de longue date mais il y a de la jurisprudence sur cette pratique et il n’y a absolument aucune obligation pour l’entreprise de respecter la pause clope. 😉
Perso, dans certains taff, j’avais fini par faire des « pauses pas-clope » car j’en avais marre que mes collègues fumeurs puissent s’absenter sans arrêt 10-20 minutes pendant que je me récupérais leur travail sans faire de pause
Il y a 2 pauses de 15 minutes pour 6 heures et plus de boulot et 3 pauses de 15 minutes pour 9 heures et plus de boulot selon le code du travail en France. Libre à toi de faire autre chose que fumer pendant cette pause (par exemple prendre une seule pause de 30 et manger au lieu de 2 de 15)
Yep, ça varie selon les conventions collectives
@@alexandrechausson5882 je ne parle pas des pauses légales et de la façon dont tu les utilises mais bien des petits arrangements pris en plus.
Ya. I have the same problem with that in health care as well. And most of the time they usually end up getting by with "extra" breaks BECAUSE they "NEED" to smoke.
En même temps(tm) c'était plutôt par humour je suppose dans la vidéo, oui il y a des "pauses" légales (et c'est tant mieux car utile dans plein d'activités pour le corps et l'esprit), et certains les institutionnalisent comme pause clope qui devient parfois aussi le point de contact et d'échange d'informations ce qui fluidifie le travail
Isn't the Japanese acceptance of sleeping at work because they are overworked and don't get enough rest at home? I don't think it's a positive aspect of their working culture.
Well when compared to the American work culture of all work all the time and not ever being allowed to disconnect from work in some jobs, it’s kinda the same thing
yeah you got it spot on for the "black companies" of Japan.. the companies that are notorious for overworking all employees and paying just enough to survive and not much better .... which in THAT aspect, is like EVERY single jobs expectations in America. either that or they ensure you have hours off to save the company money from not paying for benefits like they legally should, which keeps you balanced nicely on the edge of being homeless and as they are trying to call it now, "unhoused"
@@malkavianloner8808 I never got the whole “homeless vs “”unhoused””” vocabulary war. Like what’s the difference? Homeless was never really used as an insult the same way say like “fat” has been.
Loving this new format Loïc can't wait to see more. I've worked in the US +10 years but never in France. But I've had a friend who worked in NYC in finance and it wasn't uncommon to work 60+ hrs a week. But some french workers do work much longer, ie bakers.
I'm in Canada and for all positions that I have worked, private and public sector, a regular work week is 35 hours with a minimum of three weeks paid vacation for those who are starting out. Smaller private employers have variations on that, but the minimum is 4% paid vacation, minimum wages and anything over 80 hours bi weekly is overtime.
I’m in Canada also. Don’t know which province you’re in but in most provinces I know has 40 hrs week with minimum of two weeks of vacation; not 3. 80 hrs biweekly would be 40 hrs weekly.
@@KNg-pt8wf please reread my comment.
@@KNg-pt8wf Quebec, minimum is indeed 2 weeks or 4%, but most professional or office jobs will start you off with 3 weeks. Jobs will vary from 35, 37.5 and 40 hr work weeks, though 40 hrs is the least common, but overtime, aka 1.5x pay, doesn't apply until you go above 40 hours regardless of your usual work week. It's also not uncommon to see office jobs offer shorter work weeks for summer, like half-hour less per day or half-day fridays.
I think in Japan it was almost required to go drinking with your boss and employees after work but I've heard that's becoming less and less of thing.
I suppose that covid is no stranger of the new tradition.
You’re also often not supposed to go home until your boss does, even if it leaves you stuck at the office hours longer than your work day is supposed to be.
im hearing a lot of the black company vibes but not the normal japanese workplace
Spain’s lunch breaks aren’t for siesta by design, but taking a nap during lunch break is still possible and even a sensible thing to do for some.
Small-business retail is usually closed from 1-2pm to 4-5pm. The reason might not be siesta per se, but the egregiously late dinner hours (9-10pm) make it so that people tend to buy groceries and stuff after office hours.
One important thing to consider is time is shifted at least 1 hour too late, being that Spain is misplaced in Central European Time since 1940 because Franco wanted Spain to be in line with German time during nazi regime. And it stuck. Daylight savings time and being closer to the tropic makes it so that dusk in summer hits well beyond 10pm, making it customary to dine out late. E.g. restaurants throughout Spain rarely serve dinner before 8pm.
While we’re talking summer, it is dangerous to be out and about in the densely populated south coast from 12-4pm, at ~40°C. People just won’t and shouldn’t work in these extreme conditions, elders are instructed to stay in etc. so it mostly makes no sense to run any kind of outdoors business (and there’s A LOT of that in Spain).
All in all, being that the workday starts at 8-9am and ends at 7-8pm. The reasonable thing to do with those big lunch breaks is to take a good nap after lunch while sleeping less at night. It’s particularly telling that the evening news start at 8.30-9pm and late night TV usually starts at around 11pm lasting until well past midnight. Yes, workdays too.
Thanks to Franco, to intense heat and to lasting daylight, considering retail and hospitality are big economy drivers, Spain’s day schedule is tits up compared to anywhere else in Europe. Italy and Greece fare similarly, except they do belong to their natural time zones which eases things off a bit.
Up next: Life Makes No Sense, where Loic guides us through the history of mankind and various cultural and philosophical stances, getting to a conclusion that maybe we should cheer up a little and not take everything so seriously in everyday life 😊
Dude I would actually watch that
I mean I'll watch anything Loic makes but my point is Loic please do this
Like a "finding joy accross cultures" kind of thing
I think the world could use it :)
Thank you Loic for posting this video today! I was just told that I have a non cancerous brain tumor which I did surgery for yesterday. This video has really my day!
Edit: So good it is not cancerous. I hope you are better and better every day ❤❤❤
Living in a small town in Spain with everything within walking distance, it was not uncommon to leave during the workday to get some personal business done while the shops were open: buying stamps, picking up clothing at the dry-cleaners, dropping off an item that needed repair, etc. Also, doing the same for things that were needed at work, like buying a replacement lightbulb because one burned out, or getting a cake at the pastry shop for a co-workers birthday, ink for the printer, a duplicate key made for a new employee, stuff like that. Also I wanted to mention that the downtime of siesta in Spain is offset by the evening/night work hours that extended almost until bedtime. Spain's normal work day is in two parts: breakfast to siesta, and then siesta to dinner. Breakfast is right after waking up, and dinner is right before going to bed at night. USA work day is in three parts: breakfast to lunch, lunch to dinner, and dinner to bedtime.
American here, lived in Germany for a few years. Another difference I noted was in "customer service." In the US, it's generally expected to be friendly and enthusiastic with customers, "put on a happy face." In Germany, no one was going to fake a smile to make the customer feel more welcome. That's not to say people were always grumpy at their jobs or rude to customers, they just weren't going to fake it to get a good customer review. The important thing is that they do their job well, not how much they fake a smile throughout it.
I'd also posit that part of the issue in the US isn't just the companies/owners making their workers work too much. It's often influenced by the customers. Where I live, Walmart used to be open 24/7. (Covid changed that). It was convenient to have the store open in case you needed to get something suddenly at 3 am. Convenient, but not necessary. But I guarantee people were upset when Walmart switched to closing at midnight, because that option for convenience was suddenly gone, even if they almost never used it.
Customer expectations and demands often influence the companies and what they'll force the workers do to please the customers.
Sleep at work makes sense: as an employer I want employees to rest well to increase productivity, but I do not want them to use that free time to work on another job (in that case they won't rest). At least for programmers, maximum time of actual intensive work per day is about 4 hours. However, there is a better method: just pay them enough so they won't need another job.
I am a programmer and trust me, some people will do two jobs no matter the pay. They’re just greedy
The "waste detectives" in Germany don't come to your house and search your trash. 😂
If you throw away your trash into the woods for example, that's illegal and THEN they come to investigate.
They are mostly employees of the regulatory authority "Ordnungamt". The regulatory authority is an agency that deals with matters within a community or a city. Stationary traffic, garbage, noise emissions, and such things. And yes, it's of course about illegal waste disposal in the environment. Waste disposal costs money, and there are always idiots who think they need to dump their garbage just anywhere. All citizens pay for disposal. So it makes sense to take a closer look and see who caused the costs. So this job makes totally sense.
They also hang out near the glass container to fine you if you throw in glass out of the legal lefal time window. To keep noise down. I wish I was kidding. Costed me 20€ =P
Exactly. On the point of garbage in the wrong bins: even if you throw the wrong garbage into the wrong bins, usually nothing much happens. If it gets too obvious, the garbage collectors might refuse to collect your garbage and just leave your bins full until you sort your garbage properly. But they don't do that without warning you in writing first.
@@AuroraBorealis1990 This happened to a friend of mine. Some of the tenants in the same apartment building kept using the wrong trash cans and they were not picked up. The owners had to pay extra to get the bins picked up.
@@hesspetAh, “code enforcement officer” is what this role is called in the US.
Hello Loic! Love your stuff!!
As a Japanese man living in Korea, the Korean drinking thing after work is called "hwé-shik" (회식), although every Korean above drinking age uses that word as an excuse to "drink while discussing business".
But it's not a "fun bonding" thing as you said, many of the workers actually dislike it because of the hierarchical structure of Korean companies. And you REALLY gotta kiss your boss' ass HARD. It's the same in Japan, which we call "nomikai" (飲み会).
Recently with generations changing the hweshik and nomikai culture is disappearing for the mental (and physical with all the drinking) health of the workers. Some higher ups prefer this too, like my boss, who'd prefer to spend that at home or Friday evenings with his kids! Oh, did I mention most nomikais and hweshiks are on Fridays? So you get to enjoy your weekend hungover (fun!).
And if you have a boss who's an alcoholic and drinks soju like its water like my first boss, you can kiss your personal life goodbye!
That sounds awful
Wow, thanks for that context. Pretty wild.
There is no "siesta break" in Spain. Perhaps that was normal decades ago, but not even my parents had that. I believe that's just a cliché. Normal working hours here are starting at 7-9am, 1h lunch break, and ending at 5-7pm. 40h a week. If you work for the public administration usually you have 8 to 3pm and 35h per week. Sorry for the correction and thanks for your videos!
I was in several Spanish cities, including Madrid, in 2006 and regularly ran into everything being closed for a couple hours midday. Hungry? Only American fast food was open. The cities became ghost towns.
@@FlatulentWhale I believe you are talking about restaurants. Kitchens usually open for breakfast at 7-8 until 11-12, and then kitchen opens for lunch 1 to 4pm, opening again for dinner at 8 to 11pm. Thats nothing to do with "siesta breaks", but to the Spanish eating schedule ;)
I agree it's not common, but these jobs still exist. A friend of mine works as an accountant in a factory, and has a break from 2 to 4. Also, if you have your own shop (not a franchise), you close from 2 to 5.
If you work 10 minutes from home, I guess it's alright. But if you are at least 30 minute distance from home, what are you supposed to do for the 2 hours?e@@ricardotrivinosanchez3789
In Spain, the 2 to 5 pm break isn't electible. It just means you have a shitty schedule xD bc you work in the mornings and afternoons, but you get paid ordinary salary. So that break is wasted time. Companies don't have beds or sofas to sleep on (it would be thoughtful though haha). No one I know who works that schedule likes it ^^U It persist bc lots of stores and companies have that opening hours. It makes sense in some places here in summer, where 2 to 5 pm is so hot you can't make physical effort and need to be inside, sheltered from the heat. That schedule, we call it split schedule (horario partido).
In India, dabba walas are actually a boon for the office goers because most of them working in the private sector don't have enough time to cook for themselves due to their daily working hours/workload 😅😅 Though at present, tiffin services are available in all the major Indian cities
Also the price is very convenient. I found it is a great idea for a gift. My parents in law received every day a tiffin, that was like a membership hired for their daughter. So they would not need to cook every day.
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Hi Lou, love your content. One thing you forgot to mention was how cultures discuss salaries. In the states, openly discussing how much you make to other co-workers is not only frowned upon, but can get you fired. It’s considered so personal that even with most family members or friends it’s not discussed. In Colombia 🇨🇴 where I was born however, it is very openly discussed (from what I remember) and even strangers ask you “how much you make?”
It is actually illegal in the US to prevent employees from discussing salary. Companies hate it so much that they suppress knowledge of this and will threaten to fire people, but they are not supposed to.
In Australia too it's historically been frowned upon to discuss salary and companies were even allowed to put salary secrecy clauses into their contracts. But the law changed last year that made that illegal in new contracts, because it's a blatantly unfair practice that stops people from being able to organise and demand to be paid what they're worth!
Remember, salary secrecy isn't to protect you; it's to protect your employer from having to pay equal wages for equal work
Interesting. In Brazil, at least where I work, the salary of every employee is open to be checked/seen by everyone, every month. It happens with everyone who work for the government. Anyone can check the salary of any employee by searching his/her name. It is called "Transparência Publica". It is a way to show how the government spend the money
@@FS_5023perfect Flavio, Brazil is doing it right, there needs to be full transparency with salaries. In the states, human resources do not want this so that they can pay workers the most minimum they can, or be unfair with wages and get away with it.
The siesta hours in Spain are a bit different. They mostly only apply for stores and restaurants, which actually close from 2 to 5 to have proper eating and siesta. This happens because originally most of the time a single person did all the shifts, so they had to have a bigger break time. In other jobs like in offices, most people work 9 to 5 without the "siesta" break.
Another thing is that usually in summer, when the sun is at its peak (mediodía), it's too hot for outside jobs to work (farmers and others) in a large portion of the country. So it makes sense to stop working and wait till the temperature goes down a little bit.
I cant believe you're actually French not just playing the role.
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I love hearing about neat cultural differences between countries such as these! It's both fascinating to learn about, important for working with folks both in and from other countries, and also just to show that whatever is "normal" to us isn't some natural human inevitability and that we _can_ take inspiration from others to make our own lives even better 😊
I must point out that the Spanish time for siesta (and picking up your children, going home, cooking, eating, washing the dishes and turning back to work) is from 2 pm to 4 pm, and it may be caused by the temperatures in most of Spain at this time. Even though, currently this is something that affects some shops, bookshops, etc. but not the most common working hours. Aaaalso, we work until later than in France.
I’m American in the U.S. I worked in an American hospital for 37 years. Long hours, always more than 40 hours/week, 1/2 hour unpaid lunch that was usually interrupted by a STAT call or Code Blue, crappy PTO. Retired as soon as I could at 62. Should have moved to France!
@manxkin Don't forget the mandatory overtime...
@@erikarommel Oh believe me, I haven’t! Mandatory OT, double shifts, called in on my day off, the list goes on.
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
~Douglas Adams.
This applies to German working life.
love the new format, this video was so funny , the bike fisherman and the german trash police 😂😂😂 . i have a cousin who lives in Germany and when we visited her she was very insistently asking us to put the trash in a million categories, she was stressed about the trash mixing, now i can better understand why
I hour lunch break?, that sounds luxurious, 99% of all my office jobs were 1/2 hour.
Only 2 of the my jobs haven't had hour lunches
I appreciate the effort, the content is well done, and funny, and interesting.... but I find the language short videos, and the long ones, funnier and shareable, don't abandon that, please!
30 days of paid vacation doesn‘t translate to 1 month as it is shown on the calendar at 1:33 min. It's six weeks when you work a regular Monday-to-Friday-job. Saturday and Sunday are off already.
So, if you want to go on a three weeks vacation you only need to take 15 days of the 30 days.
Happy holidays, thank you for all the fun and laughter, wish you all the best
always enjoyed this guys funny language videos and shorts and now these much longer videos are a hit as well! good job french guy!
dude you should host a TV show, I can totally see you killing it with those jokes
I am French and lived in the US for 10 years. Work environment highly depends on the industry you are. Me and my husband work in biotechnologies in research while my sister works in finance in Paris. My days are much much shorter and relax that hers. Will never exchange my work against hers. However I would gladly take her vacation time! I have 4 weeks including the shut down during Christmas while she has 9 weeks of vacation (including RTT because she works 39 hours per week and the extra 4 hours over 35 are pqid vacation)!
Did you mean "works in _finance_ in Paris" ?
@@akaviri5 oops yes! Thanks for pointing this out.
However, as a payoff you get much higher salary as you would have had in France in biotech research , I presume.
@@IoT_ yes definitely. We live in Boston which is the capital of Biotechs (at least medical) and there are more jobs than applicants. Quite easy to find a job and negotiate a very good salary. I wish it was the same in France but it is not. I love my country but I wouldn’t go back. My kids have a much better life here, definitely. However, I am aware that it is because I was lucky to study for free in France, I don’t have to pay off my master’s degree, and also I do have a diploma that gives me the freedom to chose the job I want and I love. There is good and bad everywhere I guess 🙂
@@zohramerazga-vivien9045 I can understand. I am, myself, residing in Italy and the salary here is even more laughable than in France - 1600 euros a month. Unfortunately, I'm not an EU or an American citizen to get the chance to work in the USA, although I was in Boston, and it's quite a nice tranquille place to live. I'm happy for you. ☺️
Those Chinese professional mourners were also a thing in some parts of Spain. In fact, in Galicia (Northwest Spain) there's the expression (in Galician) "vai chorar a Cangas" ("go and cry in Cangas"), Cangas being the name of a village where, back in the 19th century, they had many of these "professional mourners".
On the other hand, we actually don't have that "siesta time" as a legal thing in Spain. Many jobs are 8 hours straight, or 9 with one hour in the middle but for lunch (unless you prefer sleeping, but that's your choice). Some other jobs have a morning and an afternoon schedule, meaning there may be upt to 2,5-3 hours between the morning turn and the afternoon turn. So, in these cases you may have time for lunch and a siesta. But this kind of jobs are usually in small businesses and workers use that time to go and pick up their children from school, prepare lunch, having lunch, etc., not actually sleeping.
So, all in all, yes, it may happen but it's not actually a thing. Maybe in summer in the southern regions, where it's too hot at noon to make any work outdoors, people may take a nap after lunc.
2:26 In the Nordic Countries, we mostly have the collaborative workplace environments, combined with the European working hours.
I'm Spanish and I've never in my life took a nap in the middle of a working day, that's maybe normal in construction sites, in fact, at least on IT, if we can shorten the lunch time to get out earlier, we do so.
Talk about weird jobs - in Singapore, during the pandemic, they created the job of 'safe distancing enforcement officers' to police the public areas as there were so many people out of work and the government was trying to create new jobs and tackle the spread of Covid at the same time. Needless to say, the people who took these jobs (usually those who were very working class and not very educated) often became over-zealous with their new found power and went over the top power crazy and they became so hated in Singapore during that period. There were horror stories of these safe distancing officers trying to separate husband and wife in public even though they sleep in the same bed and even separate parents from their infants - like there was a total absence of any kind of logic or common sense and that's the kind of ridiculous crap that can only happen in Singapore.
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Comment on China and funerals: In Vienna people wire hired for the same reason. They were called Pompfüneberer. Though it is slang, the word derives from French pomp funebre, which means escort of funeral procession.
In my country you only get half an hour for lunch. My french teacher had a culture shock when we were learning about food, and she said in France it's 2 hours... Well, in my industry it's pretty lax and nobody is watching whether you came on time or not, as long as you work that lost time later... but I know places, that you are timed to the seconds *cough cough* supermarkets *cough cough* and you get reprimanded if you clock in later. When I worked there, I usually just ate small little sandwich in the changing room, cause there was literally no time to go to the food court to buy any warm meal and eat it too in just 30minutes. Enjoy your lunch hours XD
Dude, you are a force of nature.
Le nouveau format est vraiment génial, j'espère que tout le monde le comprendra bientôt et qu'il y aura plus de vues. From Russian with love ❤
I've been an IT consultant for over 20 years, including projects that were directed from the US and from France.
Francophone teams (not just France but Belgium and French-speaking Switzerland) tend to split work a lot. I've had contracts which were a few weeks, to do a specific task within the project. Think "ok, we're making a meal... there will be a salad... we need someone to prepare the sauce for the salad, get me a salad sauce specialist"; I was the salad sauce specialist. The German-speakers split work almost as much but not quite: a German project might hire me to prepare both the salad sauce and the meat sauce. They prefer to pay all-inclusive and not have to worry about expenses, who has time to look at all those tickets anyway. When a German company wants expenses reported, it's a pain: "why do you have a meal in Munich airport?" "because the only flight available for that day was Frankfurt-Munich, Munich-Barcelona and I need to eat", "there are direct flights Frankfurt-Barcelona", "yes but there weren't any seats in those, you hired me on Friday and wanted me in Frankfurt Monday 8am'; I had to switch in Munich both on Monday and Thursday, and Thursday it was lunchtime".
The US likes having backups; people whose job description isn't identical but overlays, so any given function will be covered if someone has the lack of decency to die of a heart attack before their work is completed. Getting expenses paid is akin to getting your medical insurer to pay for anything... well, ok, not quite as bad, but almost. Rules on how to report expenses, what's expendable, timeliness for reporting etc. appear to be set by different people who don't talk to each other.
Spanish-speakers, Portuguese-speakers and British, just squeeze as much as you can from every single person. In any of those jobs I could wear two or three hats (fourteen or twenty-one by French standards). At the same time, even the worst boss there would die before calling you when you're off; the only reason they would do it is to say "the location burnt down, don't come in, we'll keep you updated". And they pay expenses without a hitch.
French-American projects... O. M. G. Bring something to read, in PDF or word-readable format so you can look like you're terribly busy. Between French micronization and American overlap you're going to have a loooooooot of time to catch up on those classics you only skimmed for your schoolwork. And of course the two project managers (one French, one American) don't ever see eye to eye when it comes to how to organize things, when to move forward, etc. I've had several of those; one which in most locations would have lasted 10 months actually finished _2 months short of the 5-year mark._ We know because one of the consultants lived nearby and it was his last project (in fact he'd had his retirement paperwork all set up and ready to hand in when he was called), so he stayed until the end while telling himself "think of the piggybank... and hey, you're sleeping at home and seeing your wife every day... think of the piggybank"; he sent an email to everybody who'd been part of the project on the day it finished, titled "we did NOT reach 5 years".
"So, if you've been looking for a change in your career, I hope I gave you some ideas... Or maybe not !?" 👌🏻
Just loved it. Keep going on with your videos, it's so fun to watch
6:13 "neither did I" 😂😂😂
The professional mourners were very common in Europe in 19th century. I think this is one of the oldest jobs. If a person was rich they would employ them.
Th other weird job I heard of is queue keepers. I think they became popular in the USA and mainly done by students or retirees. You pay the person to stand in the queue instead of you. This is mostly common when a new and very popular product comes to market.
"EXCUSE ME?!" 4:42 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love these new videos. Happy holidays!
I’m a New Yorker and I literally lol’d at the “pusher” joke. 🤣
So happy to see you posting videos regularily again. Yar content is funny AF!
7:31 They don't check if you separate your house waste correct. They hunt for people which illegally dump their waste in the nature and not in the trashcans. And unfortunately this happens way to often. So this job makes absolute sense.
Greetings from Germany.
In Romania, till ( around 30-40 years ago), people were still hiring the so called "bocitoare" (whistlers), in relation with Japanase culture. These were supposed to make a crying lyrics for the deceased person. I lived this on my own at my grandpa funerals 30 y ago. Was so strange...
I loved it 😂
Also, I was expecting something about the common "You need experience for the job"
But, how to get experience when you're always required to have experience so you can be hired even for your first job 😂
Indeed!
We actually used to have something like professional mourners in Finland.
They were called "itkijä naiset" or "wailing women" and their job was to memorize and recite all the common sorrowful hymns and write obituaries or commemorative poems to the deceased.
*I JUST LOVE LOVE LOVE YOUR LONG VIDEOS!*
Salut from Barcelona (Spain). Just to clarify, I only seen about work breaks for "siesta" in foreigner tabloids.
In many workplaces we also have one hour non paid break for lunch at work.
Something that we actually also have, in some workplaces, is a 2 to 3 hours lunch break (also non paid) just to can go lunch at home with our families. Our childs also have this break in their lectures to can go home for lunch. But this is not in all our workplaces nowadays and definitely not for "siesta". That's a bullshit sprouted by foreign bad intentionate medias trying to call us lazy. Our working day still has to be 8h not breaks included.
Just let me say this, your pronunciation of Dabbewallas was so accurate!
Professional Mouners were a thing in Europe until the 19th Century. In France they were called "Les Pleureuses".
Most of the time this job was perfomed by widows of respectable age and apperance.
0:51 Except for "cadres". We work between 40 to 50 hours for a salary based on 35 hours. In exchange, the salary is higher.
I first saw those Indian lunchboxes in Bollywood movies and thought the design was ingenious! So cuz this video now i know what they're called too - tiffins with optional dabba wala service in cities.👍
In France from 1982 to 2004, there was a thing called "Motocrottes" which translate to "PoopMotorbike"...
It was to collect dog sh*t that was left behind by dog owners all over Paris, What a NICE job 😂
Here in St. Lucia (Go Julien), we get 30 working days (Weekends and holidays are not counted) paid vacation and 14 working days for those just starting. At some businesses, like where I work, there is a 15min tea break from 10:00am. Additionally, if a holiday falls on Sunday, that holiday is transferred to the following Monday (no work). So yeah, no stress here at all.
Discussing business in a place with extreme humidity and temperature seems like a great idea, regardless if you wanna stay analog and bring paper files to discuss or if you wanna bring a laptop/tablet, and I guess the projections from the beamer onto the wood panels in the sauna might take some adjusting...
This was hilarious. Great to see how you can diversify. You're the French Ryan George 😆
Just been an au pair in the US. I can confirm that they are crazy about working. It's like their whole life revolves around their work. That's why they get au pairs! 🙃 That got me so depressed, really! They have like 2 weeks of vacations per year, close to no national vacations (MLK day, Christmas, 4th of July... Thanksgiving and maybe the 1st of January, + labour day and that's all) and in some professions, you can be called on a vacation day, you can't refuse, and you don't have any limit when it comes to the hours you get to work... They also take advantage of their days off to "get some work done" which is just crazy to me: on a day off, it doesn't matter how far behind you are in your work, that day is for you to REST and ENJOY! Just have amnesia for one day, you can deal with your shit tomorrow! Really, I'd never work in the US!
That’s a lot more national holidays off than anyone in retail gets. Walmart closed 2 days a year, Christmas and thanksgiving but employees work thanksgiving prepping for the insane Black Friday sales the next day,then Walmart started backing that up to start after Christmas sales on Christmas evening and paid vacation was only for full time employees but Walmart made sure to keep you from meeting those criteria. You have to work more than so many hours every week for so many consecutive weeks. The last week before being considered full time you would get scheduled like 8 hours for the whole week but spread over 3 days.
@@Blublizzy13 that's terrible lol! Glad I don't need to work there! Tbh my host parents didn't have the national holidays off! They were paramedic and doctor, and people need medical care all the time so they had to take days off to actually have vacations during the year! Their situation was pretty bad too... Idk how it's possible to bear that for years! I would go insane personally, vacations is all I live for!
The most funny part of the coffee break in Sweden is when you try to translate to Italian changing the "k" with a "C" (as a native Italian speaker) 😂
Omg! Love it!
Inemuri resulted from a practice colloquially known as a "death march", (they use borrowed words from English for the term) where office workers will continue working entire days straight without going home if there's an upcoming project deadline. It's a big contributor to the high suicide rate there.
Also, that sauna thing is a ridiculous idea. The papers would get all damp. 😝
So "fika" is verlan!
Though the modern word for coffee is kaffe.
The first thing I thought you were going to talk about was the experience requirement to have a job, which you have to get by having a job at first 🤣
I mean it's kind of a meme and I get where you come from, but there are tons of jobs that don't require previous work experience and only some form of education.
@@avanananaYou sure? Was more talking about jobs you actually studied for but are easily snatched away by 2month internship workers
In the past about 50 years ago in Egypt, people used to hire a woman for crying and wailing in their funerals and the woman start to say how much was the dead one kind and lovely and all his family won't forget him 😂😂
Awesome format! Keep it up man!
And then there's Mexico with the weekly 48 hours at work 😭, there's a proposition of 40 weekly hours currently waiting to be accepted by the government but it's taking soo long 😔
New short idea:
Universal language: Sooo what will you name this:🧍🏻♂️?
English: We will keep easy and simple. It will be "man".
Universal language: Ok, easy and simple I like that. Now you German.
German: We will call It "mann" similiar to English.
Universal language: Doesn't "mann" mean husband in German? Nevermind. It's your turn now Polish.
Polish: We will call it *"MĘŻCZYZNA".*
Universal language: WHAT THE FU-
As a dutch guy, yeah losing bikes in the canal happens a lot because people just wanna be pricks too. Or someone destroyed it or made it unuseable in any other way and they just toss it in there. Happens a lot with shopping carts too.
I'm from Madascar and some people earn money by helping you park. They come out of nowhere and yell at you if you're too close to the wall while parking. Then they come at your window and expect money.
New Zealand has 2 ten minute paid breaks for morning and afternoon tea, which can sometimes be taken as 4 five minute smoke breaks if the employee is a smoker (depending on if the workplace allow it)
Brazilian work laws are very close to french ones, good to know.
Yeah... In Germany we separate the trash into plastic, paper, bio, glass (there are different glass colors though) and the remaining trash bins... Kinda nuts to be honest.
Also I thought, that French do have a siesta, because I assure you the breaks they take in the middle of the day are close to those in Italy and in Italy if you happen to need something - even medicine - during siesta hours, you better be prepared to wait a ton of time to get it.
In France it's a 2 hours lunch break, cause you know, food is important!
Then why is many food so... terribly bad in French supermarkets? No, food was important once, but nowadays McDo, Cojean ou le kébab.. @@herveschlaflang301
That’s crazy. 35-hour work week & 10 of those are for lunch? Is that right? So, 25 hours of actual work? Maybe another 2-3 hours of coffee/gossip?
I live in Italy and yes small shops do take from 12:30 - 3:30 pm off but the supermarkets and at least one pharmacy dose from 9am to 9pm non stop.
@KNg-pt8wf no the lunch hours are not counted in the 35-hour
German here~ we have what?
And how many bins?!
I'm aware of the black one for everything else, the brown one for composable waste, the blue one for paper and the (it's somewhat new to have a whole bin for that, it is more common a sack you get at the local public office) the yellow one for recycable things like foil or plastics...
We do have containers for glass especially (and we don't throw just all glass in one. You need to seperate clear or white glass, brown glass and green or colorful glass) and we have containers for old clothes, so they get donated to be sold in second hand shops... Or something like that... But you don't NEED to use them (it's a bit of a "I don't wear this, but it's completely fine, so it's too good to just throw it in the trash") and for all the big stuff we have "recyclinghöfe"...
It's not that much bins...
Yeah, industrial waste is way more complicated with copper, aluminum and general metalic waste seperated for example and don't ever just throw out old oil. Better take it to recyclinghof.
But it's not that much bins!
... Yeah... We do seperate quite much to be honest... And never throw a bottle with pfand in the trash! That's money you (or someone less fortunate) can collect!
Yeah. I counted & that’s about 6-7 bins. So, Loic was right, up to 7 bins. That’s nuts!
@@KNg-pt8wf Nope, the glass containers are not bins at your house, the are special container dispersed throughout the districts. So 4 bins, and if you've got a composter you don't need the brown bin. So 3 bins
Even if Jobs make no sense, they do make the cents.
"I should sign my fiancé up"
"ExcUse me?"
😂😂😂😂💀
4:40, j'en connais un qui dors sur le canapé ce soir...
Hello Loïc !
I am french and i do work more than 35 hours a week, and it is not conferred as overtime, and hopefully it is not a particular case 😂
The thing is, if your working contract asks you to work more than 35 hrs a week, you will have recovery time every month - like half a day of recovery, see that like extra holidays 😉
And there are many other working contracts - engineers are mainly on that types - where you have no “minimum time” to do, but if your job is not done, you’re fired 😅
And in that cases people work way too much and more than 40 hrs a week 😬
That recovery time you get when working more than 35hs/week (RTT) is calculated to compensate overtime (so working 40hs/week will get you 5hs/week compensation) using those is mandatory, so in theory everyone should work 35hs/week in average (unless they work more than their contract demands and never declare it ofc)
Love the content. Thank you
The background yelling sound. the best!!! 6:13
hello, thanks for your vid 😊 ! France here, professional mourners were in France too (till XIXth, even XXth century, they were called ... Pleureuses. But that kind of job exist from Antic time (Antic Greek, even Antic Egypt). Encore merci pour tes vidéos😊!
1:40 idem, si tu as travaillé aux US, oui il y a moins de jours de congés... mais tu ne parles pas des "sick days" qui doublent ce quota (et que la plupart utilisent comme des vacances), ce qui équivaut du coup à peu près aux vacances en france. Les US sont aussi généralement plus généreux pour les vacances de noël et ferment les bureaux tout en payant leurs employés
"...that one French guy that makes fun of the French language..."
_Welcome to the French Language A Bo Burnham Parody_ comes to mind 🤣
"I wanna show you my profit projections ..." Lol
In New Zealand we call the smoke break a Smoko
A similar job ( funeral cryers in China) exists in Turkey. People pays a group to cry in their funeral to make it more memorable not too common though
A lot of Catholic countries also had them back en the days
Professional mourners are there in India too. They are called Rudali. But its a fading tradition. Never seen one myself except in movies . .
The Yoda scream at 6:13 killed me
I wonder why in Italy we don't have fika at work too... ;)
Nice bod, bro 👌
at 7:45 x) that stuff made me laught so hard omg nice 🤣👍
Here in Australia, it's also normal to have a coffee break similar to the Swedish fika, but usually only once per day max (so either in the morning or in the afternoon). Of course, it's not mandatory and a lot of folks don't join, either due to disinterest or workload, but I've always found it extremely valuable both to build a bond as a team and also as a more casual environment to learn about (and often find solutions to/direct to relevant person to solve problems with) what other people are working on 😊
There's also the concept of a "smoko", which is a smoking break like the French have, but it's falling out of favour these days with smoking becoming less common and more looked down upon. But even so, I've had friends in jobs that haven't given them enough proper breaks start smoking so they could use it as an excuse to get 5 mins of peace. Luckily they've both stopped and found better jobs since then...
Lol love the new format
Professional mourners are actually pretty common in a lot of cultures.