Angry

There is a company here (which shall ramain nameless for legal reasons) which plays heavily on their Swedihness. Swedish style and Swedish design, and Swedish people who work there. Unfortunately for the people who work there, the person who owns the company has somewhere along the lines forgotten his/her own Swedishness. The staff are treated terribly. You see, there are certain worklaws here in Australia (driven through by the right wing Howard government) which give all the rights to companies and take all rights away from the employees.
- If you do not want to pay your employees extra on weeknights, weekends and public holidays, well you simply don't have to! (This Swedish company does not).
- There are cameras in the workplace which the owners of the company watch all the time, and if something not to their liking happens in the shop, well Big Brother is watching and will be only a phonecall and a bollocking away. (Yes folks, this is done!)
- An employee going on maternity leave will go UNPAID as the company will only grant parental leave of absence as per thier legal obligations. (Companies here do not have to pay anyone, only of good-will).

My point is that someone who wants to claim being Swedish, should also bring what's good about Sweden to their company and lead by example. Shame on them.

I wish I could ask you all to blacklist this company, but that would be hard as it only exists in Australia and many of you live in Sweden or elsewhere.