Working life

23.11.2007 19:42 This is nothing I have much experience of but I met a person today who works here. This is how a working week can be in Barcelona. Monday-Thursday: 9am-ish people stroll in. 11 o’clock it’s time for a half-hour long coffee break, usually at a nearby bar/coffee-place. 2 pm-ish it’s time for lunch. As you know from previous blog item this lasts around 1,5 hours and is very pleasant. And very loud. This should really appeal to me since I’m a loud person myself, but you don’t exactly get any brain rest. 3.30 pm-ish it’s time to go back to work. Which lasts until all hours. At 7pm you can still see lots of people in the office. So it’s not like they do not do their fair share of work, it’s just done different hours than I’m used to. Friday: big breakfast in the morning, appearing in the office around 9 as usual. Coffee break maybe, but not necessarily. Then around 3pm the office is empty. Lunch is skipped. It’s time to travel home for the weekend, or just take off early after a busy week. Me kinda likey. It’s not a bad usage of time. Just different to what I’m used to. Especially when I heard that the Friday routine is adopted three months over the summer. So that people can enjoy life. There is definitely something for ze Swiss (and the rest of Europe for that matter) to learn here…