The New York Times - A French Employee's Work Celebrates the Sloth Ethic

The French version of 'Office Space':

"PARIS, Aug. 13 - Finally, instead of dissembling behind ambiguous notions of Gallic joie de vivre, someone in this leisurely land has declared outright that the French should eschew the Anglo-Saxon work ethic and openly embrace sloth.

Corinne Maier, the author of 'Bonjour Paresse,' a sort of slacker manifesto whose title translates as 'Hello Laziness,' has become a countercultural heroine almost overnight by encouraging the country's workers to adopt her strategy of 'active disengagement' - calculated loafing - to escape the horrors of disinterested endeavor."

(via Mefi)