France’s Annual Summer Memo to America
Vacation season is here. Why are you still working?
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4 min readJul 8, 2020
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To: Our Industrious American Colleagues
From: Your Lazy French Counterparts
Re: Summer Holidays
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In recent decades, we French have been the target of many a joke told around your American watercoolers.
We’re always on strike.
We’re never at work.
It takes at least three of us to change a lightbulb.
Believe us, we’ve heard it all.
However, with the summer vacation season officially here, we’d like to remind our American counterparts of two important policies.
1. Don’t plan to find us at work (as per usual)
If you’re having a hard time reaching us in the office, this graph might help you understand why:
