I have decided that 1/3 of the Italian population works for the government 1/3 work in the restaurant industry and 1/3 is everyone else. (Need to fact this)
Breakfast is brief, lunch takes 90 minutes. Dinner 2 hours and very late in the evening. They don't care if you sit there all day. Once they serve you your meal, they are done and they can sit down, probably call someone on the phone. They might return and ask about "un caffe?"
This is a fact of life, accept it, live it, believe it.
I am convinced nobody in italy ever gets fired. Because some part of the day is sitting around and how could you possibly evaluate productivity.
I have recently been told this statistic about Italy. There are 70,000 employees within the Trenitalia system and only 20 new jobs a year. Thse new jobs are probably deaths.
In Orvieto garbage is collected every day. It may be glass one day, paper another, then organic. It's all very organised. Neat, clean no rats yet totally opposite is Naples
Having said all of this, it's not a lazy behavior, it's there life style.
Americans are probably one of the most hard working cultures in the world.
Germans get 6 weeks of holiday a year, the brits 4 at least often 6.
Observations and thoughts
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