You're a scientist. Pay cuts hit. Layoffs. What ya gonna do?
Spanish scientists sing way to YouTube success
Staff at a research centre in Valencia where almost half of all employees were recently laid off have decided to combat low morale by entering a lipdub competition which has gone on to be a YouTube hit.
Optimism has been hard to come by at the Príncipe Felipe Research Centre in Valencia ever since 114 of its 240 staff members were given their marching orders in 2011.
Those who were lucky enough to keep their jobs had to endure a pay cut of between 5 and 15 percent.
Funding for medical investigations into Cancer, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s have all been progressively lowered as the centre, which cost €60 million when it was set up in 2005, started to suffer the consequences of Spain’s crisis.
“Everyone would talk about the same thing, there was always bad news on the way,” receptionist Pilar Fortea told local daily El Mercantil Valenciano.
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The Valencia team chose Good Time by Owl City and Carly Rae Jepsen as their song to accompany an upbeat, colourful video filmed in one single take.
http://www.thelocal.es/20130731/singing-spanish-scientists-create-youtube-hit
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