Extended breakfast and lunch breaks – the heart of the British Economy.
For those that didn’t already know, extended breakfast and lunch breaks; are the true heart of the British Economy. Gordon Brown and your boss will probably tell you different, but then, you are probably one of their slaves anyway if you believe them.
No, I’ll explain; undervalued, overworked, not happy, too many hours, to expensive commuting; the list is infinite! And now way up the advantages that your boss will spout as an excuse ‘not to’ give you a payrise at your annual appraisal – team spirit (yeah, right), generous holidays (what a max of just 30 a year), a free ‘but contributary’ pension scheme (that the government is already burning at a faster rate than you earn it), and ‘the perfect’ work life balance; sometimes also disguised as ‘your’ flexibility or ‘flexibile hours’ (which basically means you work all the hours god sends, whenever you can, wherever you can, and your life comes ‘after’ work).
Well, to all these ‘so called’ man management experts, I say “Fanculo tu”. Or in English “Fuck ‘em!”
I have just had an extended breakfast break in the sun, extended by a friend Manu (another great snowboarding legend) who has just arrived back from “the local universities G8 and Anarchy Brigade” marches. An eventful morning no doubt (I have seen all the pictures, already), and just wish I had got up a little earlier today, to go myself 
Now it’s time to do some ‘personal time management’, maybe think about some lavoro!
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