The blog with no name

I wonder sometimes about the information we get fed. We have the French protesting about the new employment law that allows employer to dismiss employee without a reason and it is often compared to the British system.
What nobody seems to mention is the reality like I have seen it in a workplace, employers terrified to sack even the most incompetent and laziest worker because of fear or ending up in front of the employment tribunal. Every disciplinary procedure is incredibly time consuming and even in clear cuts cases of gross misconduct the procedure has to be followed to the letter as the tribunal is as likely to find faults in the procedure even when the reasons were well documented. Dismissing someone means keeping records of their misdemeanour for months, means endless meetings and search for evidence and this is the case even for casual workers.
I am not saying for a second that people should be hired and fired at will, but what I don't understand is why British employment law is always the prime international example for flexible workforce. Yes, right nobody has a job for life these days but partly is also caused by the employees always on the look out for new opportunities rather than employers dismissing people every other day.
As I know that in some of my ex workplaces people that were notoriously useless then are still happily employed now I' m starting to think that in all my 15 years career I've only worked for wimps.

I know this is not the way to start a new blog, my first blog ever actually.

Silvio Berlusconi the Italian Prime Minister who everyone in the international media like to call flamboyant which in this case I guess is a synonymous for wanker, has, as the whole universe knows by now, called everyone that does not vote for him a "coglione". This is a word that can only be loosely translated into English and I think that dickhead might do the trick, although coglione/i is not a word that people normally say in front of their parents/teachers/priests or any form of authority carrying a gun.

In my books, this behaviour would be a good enough reason not to vote for him, even without thinking about his dodgy background and political record, unfortunately it looks like a more or less vast section of the Italian public likes to have a flamboyant (wanker) PM.
As somehow I still hold an Italian passport as I was born there and I would never ever vote for anyone like him at least unless I go totally bonkers, the conclusion is that I am a dickhead too.
I am sure that most people have been called dickhead by someone at some point in their lives, not everyone has been called dickhead by a prime minister.
I have.