Comments on: Rogue French trader Jerome Kerviel was forced to work 30 hours a week!

By: Fabrice Grinda

Fabrice Grinda — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:37:42 +0000

Obviously the very same thing can be done in the US or any country using stereotypes – I just thought it was very creative – like “Here comes another bubble” or “Wall Street Meltdown” or some of the other videos you can watch in “Displays of Creativity”.

By: Fabrice Grinda

Fabrice Grinda — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:36:06 +0000

Wow, you are taking this way too seriously! In France it’s ok to make fun of everyone – Belgians, Poles, Americans, but not the French themselves apparently :)

By: CEC

CEC — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:50:34 +0000

Yep Fabrice, you see he is able to do that working 30 hours a week while you went bankrup and lost money for a lot of people with your very good friend Arnaud not so long ago …. see, no need to work a lot and play the easy guy with all his flat screens, video games, new york flat and bunch of very intelligent friends like Thiel to loose money… Hilarous, isn’t it ? yes sir JK is to blame but not for being French …this is far too easy and very not funny on your blog, far more on a satiric newspaper at lest we understand they take it the funny way while you just appear to say… JK in France is lazy, me in US hard worker, hard player patati patata… Nul c’st nul de ta part.

By: Fabrice Grinda

Fabrice Grinda — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:04:35 +0000

Thanks! I was wondering where this came from!

By: plstokes

plstokes — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:12:36 +0000

This was taken from the satirical website The Daily Mash
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/french-trader-was-forced-to-work-30-hours-a-week-20080125680/

By: Felipe

Felipe — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:54:41 +0000

This blog was hilariously funny! I couldn’t stop laughing when I was reading it.

And, unfortunately, to the regrets of Mr. Kerviel’s colleagues and many others, it seems that President Nicolas Sarkozy will worsen these harsh working conditions – He desires to increase the outrageous 30 hours per week to 40-hours workweek! I guess, if President Sarkozy succeeds in this effort, we might expected similar ludicrous events in France.

By: Olivier

Olivier — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:44:29 +0000

The average American works 46h/week, which makes 2208h a year.
For JK with 30h/week it makes 1440h a year (assuming no break for Christmas and New Year…).
this correspond to JK taking a full month and two days of vacation compare to the average worker. It is safe to assume Fabrice works more than average worker so he can take more than one month vacation a year still put in more work than JK and perhaps not lose more than 1 billion dollar:)

By: Semana Laboral Francesa « Por ahora sin tìtulo

Semana Laboral Francesa « Por ahora sin tìtulo — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:51:56 +0000

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By: Fabrice Grinda

Fabrice Grinda — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:05:13 +0000

This is not bashing, this was hilarious! :)

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:38:09 +0000

Frenchy bashing is quite out of fashion, you know?

Esp. when the guy you talk about didn’t take a vacation for the last 2 years.

Not exactly your case.