Working in Italy
When I thoughts, years ago, that Italy should get some of the american’s laws, I never meant to take the worst!
In Italy there is thre dream of the Indeterminate Time Job (ok, the translation can be wrong…) that means that you have your job and, unless you are not a complete idiot that doesn’t do anything from the morning to the afternoon, no one will ever touch you for the rest of your working life. This had caused a lot of problems during the ’70s and the ’80s, because some italians (not only some) took their job like a hobby, doing the minimum needed to keep their job, with obvious loss of competition of the companies that employed them. Of course the best examples of this are the public jobs, those offered from the Italian State.
In this scenario we have grown thinking that we should choose our job, take care of doing quite nothing and taking our money home. Am I exaggerating? Not so much, most probably less than you can think!
Let’s return to the main idea: copying a successful lifestyle!
In USA jobs are not so armored and no one is sure to keep it till the pension, the market is very dynamic and so on…
One last notation: while when in America when you loose your job you simply loose it, in Italy if you loose your job you are a looser! Loosing your own job, here, is seen as a big shame!
It resemble me the difference between the turtle (we) and the rabbit (them) …
But in this case I think that the turtle will not win… it is too much tied to the skeletons of its past
Ok, but Italy has decided to copy, to import the American lifestile, their dynamic job martket. Yes, some years ago the Job War started. It doesn’t matter who started it (Left Wing, Right Wing) because it seems to me that everyone has decided to put their Brilliant Brain at our service.
So, Italy has copied the Temporary Jobs.
Yeah!
Wait… USA is known as the Land of Opportunity, and if you loose your job you can find another one if you want.
Wait… Italy can be known as the Land of Opportunists, where finding a job is not so simple and easy.
HEY, Government! You are trying to apply a very dynamic Job Market format in a land where the job dynamism has never been kept in mind!
Our Goverments hadn’t tought about the difficulties, they have simply implanted a 4 GHz processor in a motherboard that supports only 1 GHz processors… and even if you don’t know what I mean, you will be easily understand what I mean!
Now our young women and men will find an incredible number of agencies that will propose them Temporary Jobs, without sureness for the future, without giving them the hope to be able to create a family in tranquillity.
Why?
- the contracts are time framed, without mutual renewal.
- With the new laws someone could work for her/his entire life with temporary contract.
- The companies has decided to take this opportunity and employ only with temporary contracts.
- In Italy if you want to buy a house you have to demonstrate that you will pay it, and with temporary jobs this demonstration does not exists
- The rights of the temporary workers are completely different from those of the normal workers
All of these things are creating a Young Italy that tomorrow will lead our nation that is not capable of buying a house, of requiring thier rights… What nation will we became? What culture will receive our children if their parents wouldn’t be able to grant them the security they need?
Dear Politicians,
instead of thinking to yourself, think about this Italy that is slowly slipping down.
Grant the youngster the capabilities to reinforce our nation, to give a helping hand one each other.
Am I shouting at the wind?
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