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« Yet, the young [Greek] guys come to work….they work for a week or they don’t even stay for the whole week and leave. They can’t. They can’t deal with the job. And of course when they work…they want to take it easy, very easy I would say. They come there holding their cell phone, their coffee, their cigarettes... They arrive, they’ll sit down over their coffee until 9 o’clock, then they get into work; at eleven o’clock: coffee, bread, you know, food and stuff, snacks…then again…comes two o’clock "It’s two o’clock, off we go! What are we doing? Why are we still working?" Do you get it? But we, we can’t do this, because we know that he [the employer] will fire us. »
« My opinion…okay, I have a good opinion; there’s just one thing I don’t like; the only thing I don’t like about women in Greece: that they are not very hard-working…ok, not all of them. For example they have other women work for them, to clean their houses. That’s okay if she’s very busy, if for example she works in some kind of company, she may [get another woman to clean the house]. But if she’s at home every day, it’s not right. Otherwise I have nothing [against them], it’s okay. […] The Bulgarian woman is like a washing machine that knows how to cook and sew; I mean she works all day at her job, she gets back home, she takes care of the children, she does everything normally. »
Lazy Greeks
