Such disapproval, even contempt, for the United States is evident in the worker bars just outside a Michelin tire plant in Clermont-Ferrand.
Care workers, bar staff, waiters and retail staff on low incomes have been hit hardest by the downturn, the report, commissioned by accountancy firm KPMG, found.
The people whose jobs are associated with the lowest life satisfaction include telesales workers, bar staff, rent collectors and leisure assistants.
STI RG (sexually transmitted infection risk group) was composed between commercial sex workers, bar employees, tea-room employees, and massage parlor employees.
Until the 1980s, the island was racially stratified, with white Australian managers overseeing Asian workers barred from whites-only neighborhoods.
But even in New York, a gateway of immigration, a national climate that makes immigrant patients more timid also emboldens some front-line workers to bar the way.
And it wants public sector workers - bar the armed forces, police and fire service - to receive their occupational pension at the same time as the state pension age, which will eventually rise to 68.
And of course, for every journalist or media worker behind bars, there are countless others "guilty" of daring to ask a question or speak their mind.
Most places will let workers keep bar tips, but there are the odd ones that are a bit funny about staff having money on them during a shift.
Initial acceptance was greater among younger bar workers; older workers, initially more sceptical, became less so with experience of the legislation's effects.
