Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture (2016)
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Re: Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture (2016)
#2Lousy work culture that produces the best output in the world. If it is so bad why don't you stay in Switzerland and give up your American passport? Something must be making up for the competitive work culture. I wonder what that is.
Re: Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture (2016)
#3Lousy work culture that produces the best output in the world. If it is so bad why don't you stay in Switzerland and give up your American passport? Something must be making up for the competitive work culture. I wonder what that is.
It's right in the article:
> Finally, finally, after almost a decade abroad, my husband and I decided we needed to go home to see what home felt like, or if the United States even felt like home anymore.
Re: Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture (2016)
#4While this sounds lovely, can anyone with experience speak to the difficulty of finding sponsored work in Switzerland?
For instance, my wife is a social worker in the U.S. and speaks conversational German - but this is not likely to be considered a "high need" type of job for which a company would hire a foreign worker.
Re: Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture (2016)
#5Lousy work culture that produces the best output in the world. If it is so bad why don't you stay in Switzerland and give up your American passport? Something must be making up for the competitive work culture. I wonder what that is.
Goes to show what trusting an inhumane culture's concept of "best output" is worth
Re: Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture (2016)
#6But in Switzerland, my husband's company gave employees six weeks of vacation a year.
And yet, I find people get used to it and consider it normal rather than a great thing. I give my employees 36 days of paid vacation per year (7.2 weeks) and, yep, got complaints the other day when I suggested making December 22nd a mandatory holiday day(!) :-)
Re: Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture (2016)
#7"Being rich ruined me for being poor and its lousy perks."
Re: Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture (2016)
#8Slightly off topic, but the beauty of Switzerland was such a stark contrast to where I grew up in New Jersey that it almost made me angry. All these people, going about their daily lives in Switzerland seemingly oblivious to the fairy-tale landscape around them!
Re: Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture (2016)
#9Any time I meet or hear about someone like this, who comes back to the US after living in western Europe, I really have to wonder about them. Especially this one: she's just complaining a lot about life in America not being as great as in Switzerland. Well, that's no surprise. What did she expect? Even worse, she's just in time for Trumpism. She couldn't have picked a worse time to come back.
Re: Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture (2016)
#10Lousy work culture that produces the best output in the world. If it is so bad why don't you stay in Switzerland and give up your American passport? Something must be making up for the competitive work culture. I wonder what that is.
>Lousy work culture that produces the best output in the world.
It's that only if you ignore the output per capita and just views the countries?