Carlos Suárez
A Wealthy Unemployed In this country when normal workers are fired, it means the beginning of lots of worries for them. First of all, those workers can't be sure that they will get the severance paid which they are entitled to. With the economic crisis, many companies are dismissing their workers without paying them anything. If the workers want to get some money, the have to go to court, which can be a very long and expensive process. It doesn't pay off. Furthermore, when workers find themselves out of work, they know for a fact that getting another job is going to be almost impossible. If the worker is over the age of forty or forty-five, then it's best for him or her to pray. There are no jobs for such "old" people in this "wonderful" country. All the aforementioned doesn't count for bankers, as they have regulations of their own. A banker who works for probably the most important bank in the country, has lost their bosses' confidence. However, they are not going to fire him like they would with everyone else. Instead, this particular banker is going to get an early retirement(he is forty-eight) earning eight hundred thousand euros per annum until he is sixty-five years old. Then, he will have his pension like the rest of normal workers. I don't think he will have difficulty making ends meet.
Nov 26, 2014 11:01 PM
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A The Wealthy Unemployed

In this country when normal average workers are fired, it means the beginning of lots of/a lot of worries for them.* 
First of all, those workers can't be sure that they will get the severance paid which that they are entitled to. With the economic crisis, many companies are dismissing their workers without paying them anything. If the workers want to get some any money, they have to go to court, which can be a very long and expensive process. It doesn't pay off.
Furthermore, when workers find themselves out of work, they know for a fact that getting another job is going to be almost impossible. If the worker is over the age of forty or forty-five, then it's best for him or her to pray. There are no jobs for such "old" people in this "wonderful" country.
All the aforementioned doesn't count for bankers, as they have regulations of their own. A Recently, for example, a banker, who works for probably the most important bank in the country, has lost their bosses' confidence. However, they are not going to fire him like they would with everyone else. Instead, this particular banker is going to get an early retirement (he is forty-eight), earning eight hundred thousand euros per annum until he is sixty-five years old. Then, he will have his pension like the rest of normal average workers. I don't think he will have any difficulty making ends meet.

 

*"lots of" sounds somewhat juvenile or too casual.

 

Great English, as usual, and very sophisticated.

 

In certain instances, this is called a "golden parachute".  This should be distressing to think about for anyone who is not a banker or a highly-paid executive.  It is a disappointing result of an over-capitalistic society.

November 27, 2014

The Wealthy Unemployed

In this country when most ordinay workers are fired, it means the beginning of lots of worries for them.
First of all, those workers can't be sure that they will get the severance pay which they are entitled to receive. With the economic crisis, many companies are dismissing their workers without paying them anything. If the workers want to get some money, they have to go to court, which can be a very long and expensive process. It doesn't pay off.
Furthermore, when workers find themselves out of work, they know for a fact that getting another job is going to be almost impossible. If the worker is over the age of forty or forty-five, then it's best for him or her to pray. There are no jobs for such "old" people in this "wonderful" country.
The aforementioned problems and concerns don't affect bankers, as they have regulations of their own. A banker who works for probably the most important bank in the country, might have lost their bosses' confidence. However, they are not going to fire him like they would anyone else. Instead, this particular banker is going to get paid an early retirement benefit of eight hundred thousand euros per year from the time he's forty-eight years old until he's sixty-five years old. Then, he will have his pension like the rest of the ordinary workers. I don't think he will have difficulty making ends meet.

November 27, 2014
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