The Frogs want to get paid and sleep on the job.

The Frogs want to get paid and sleep on the job.

AP news feed Sunday papers in the usa. Sorry from Paris.

The French frogs already enjoy a 35 hour workweek when we are 40 and many corporate people are doing the work here of two people and are putting in 50 to 60 hrs a week.

They and Italians get a month’s vacation where we get 2 weeks.

Now they want to be paid to sleep on the job. Oy vey?

France launched plans this week to spend 9 million this year to improve public awareness about sleeping troubles. About one in three frogs suffer from them the ministry says.

56% of the frogs complain that a poor night’s sleep has affected their job performance according to the ministry. So why not let them nap at work. It can’t be a taboo subject health minister Xavier Bertrand said. He said as soon as the study is in he is ready to approve on the job naps.

France’s state run health insurance provider will send letters explaining the importance of good sleep. The Web site gives tips on the subject.

The minister said cut down on coffee, teas, colas and athletic activity after 8pm shunning TV time or working late into the evening and listening better to the body’s own sleep signals such as yawning. He said keep off the computer late at night. Sleepiness causes 20 to 30% of their highway accidents across France each year.

Bertrand said I walk across my office and the phones are ringing and nobody answers them and their eyes are open but their brains are dead and asleep. Since they are sleeping on the job any way, why not just make it legal and then they can not get fired for it. Off the record Bertrand said the French people are a nation of drunks and most consume 1 to 2 full bottles of wine a day. He said their excessive drinking is the main cause of most of their sleep problems but to tell a Frenchman he can no longer drink wine would cause riots in the streets and a over throw of the government. He said the reason they had not won a war since 1812 was everyone is too drunk to shoot and hit any thing. He said the only nation we could now whip would be Italy because they are drunker than us.

[ Edited by 9BallroadPro on 2007/2/6 15:27 ]

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