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0 pointssofixa3y ago0 comments

> 36hr week, 5 weeks vacation, pension

1 hour more than the standard French contract, and there are also far more holidays here..

> free unlimited 2nd class + low cost 1st class train travel.

.. okay that's actually a great perk. IIRC the French national railway company, SNCF, provide only a limited number of tickets per employee (like 10 per year? someone please correct me if I'm wrong). Their UX is also atrocious though (websites are just shit at workflows, apps are weird and break easily, ticket machines are OK but with really bad touch screens, and train announcement screens are each running Windows XP(with literally hundreds, if not thousands of them on big train stations), while from what i recall NS was acceptable.

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thibautg3y ago

I work for the Belgian railways and I have a free unlimited first class pass for Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg) + lots of international free tickets, also in 1st class. But no company car, obviously.

There is no UX: it's just a small sheet of paper.

HowTheStoryEnds3y ago

The workers don't get that though, they get 2nd class.

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