If the French are moaning now, wait until their new prez changes the max working hours and they have to put in a real weeks worth like we do.

I can't believe they've managed to complain more than us. Its not fair. I've not got where I am today by not whingeing (and today I'm sat on a cruise ship in the caribbean ;).

Frankly the French have it easy and if they had to work with the people I work with then they'd really whinge.

Luckily I had the foresight to deliver an Oracle surprise to my colleagues before I left the country that should have upped the whinge quotient to a more acceptable level.

They obviously sent all the sheets to managers who work for (Indescriminately Big Monopoly-type-companies)...

The amount of holidays that I've seen them have (especially co-ordinated to co-inside with any major company release in our case) is comical at best..

.. oops, was that a whinge!?

This article seems to imply that US workers have nothing to complain about. I only wish we had the working hours, holidays and benefits that you have in Western Europe.