Working Italian style

Many may wonder how the Italians acquired their reputation of not working as hard as most Europeans.
I am able to solve this mystery. They acquired this reputation by not working as hard.
When they work they rest, when they rest they work hard.
On the rare occasions when two groups of Italians are competing with one another as to who should perform a certain job, the result is most surprising.
You would naively assume that both groups are keen to do the job.
Not at all.
Whenever the Boilermakers Union starts a quarrel with the Ship Union as to who should drive wooden nails into metal or metal nails into wood, they call a strike for two or three months.
In other words ( and this is the basic law of Italian Left)if two Italian men are equally eager to do a job, the job is sure to be left undone.
Normally, in the factory, workshop or office, they use their working day to build up energy for those fatiguing hours of leisure when they watch TV, play football, redecorate the spare bedroom, etc...
It is little wonder that when at last they go to bed they are inclined to believe that the time for rest has arrived.