Chronic“The pests of summer” (2/8). Some people have a knack for ruining the holidays. “M” tells you which ones to avoid in order to preserve your precious moments of relaxation. This week, the lucky ones who just signed up for indefinite leave.
Pome people who are unpleasant to have around on vacation, some mean us no harm. They just make the mistake of making petty thoughts spring up in us, envy in particular. Those who have just signed a conventional break, for example. The minimum would be to pity them, they generally come out of a difficult professional situation, do not know what future awaits them. And yet, hearing them wondering about their new life, we come to secretly envy them.
On vacation, people who break with convention are in their element. When we wonder if we are going to take our two weeks off in July or August, they explain that they, on their return from their two and a half months of rest, have planned a permaculture course in Normandy, before a week of non-violent communication training in Brussels. They assure that “it does a lot of good” and tell us that we should try. We’re not going to tell them that, during the year, we don’t even find time to go to the gym once a week.
In the meantime (people in breach of agreement readily say ” waiting “, without us really understanding what they are waiting for), they “give a hand” to friends, advise start-ups on a voluntary basis (the right-wing version of permaculture).
big check
At the beach, on their towel, they explain that their problem is that they really hesitate with all the possibilities open to them. This is when they specify: “I have something to see coming up to…”, alluding to the duration of their Pôle emploi benefits, that you feel you are becoming right-wing with RPR cockades that grow all over your swimsuit. ” It’s funny, they confide in front of the ocean, I’m not sure I want to work again. » Come to think of it, neither did we, but they didn’t ask us.
Ever since he saw a coach, the vacationer on break from convention knows that he “needs meaning”, and he explains this to the cousin on vacation who especially needs to make ends meet.
Luckily, OpinionWay did. According a recent survey conducted for the National Agency for the Improvement of Working Conditions, 84% of French working people believe that their job makes sense, but 43% would be ready to leave theirs within two years for another that has even more. It’s reality versus aspiration. The survey does not give the percentage of holidaymakers ready to quit their job after having spent holidays with friends who have broken with the agreement.
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