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kpete

(71,901 posts)
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 09:09 AM Oct 2015

Air France's head of human resources had his shirt ripped off his back at a job cuts meeting





A scuffle broke out after demonstrators stormed a room at the group’s headquarters at Charles de Gaulle airport where Air France management was outlining 2,900 job cuts, or 5 per cent of total staff.

Xavier Broseta, head of human resources, had the shirt ripped from his back by an angry crowd as he made his way out. He was forced to climb a fence to escape, wearing only a pair of trousers and a tie.

“I could not believe it, they just started attacking,” said one person close to the unions, who was at the scene. “He looked really shocked as he was rushed out by security over a fence,” he said.

Manuel Valls, the French prime minister said he was “outraged by the unacceptable violence by demonstrators at the fringes of Air France works council.”


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Air France's head of human resources had his shirt ripped off his back at a job cuts meeting (Original Post) kpete Oct 2015 OP
It's a start. hobbit709 Oct 2015 #1
You have a fan pintobean Oct 2015 #2
Considering the source, I find it highly amusing. hobbit709 Oct 2015 #3
He's a rwnj douchebag. pintobean Oct 2015 #5
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah malaise Oct 2015 #4
Yes, we definitely need more violent thuggery Freddie Stubbs Oct 2015 #9
While I deplore violence Sherman A1 Oct 2015 #11
god, that's funny...laughed out loud at that one... CTyankee Oct 2015 #12
It's France PADemD Oct 2015 #6
Looking at you, James Dimon. Matariki Oct 2015 #7
very apt metaphor, isn't it? bettyellen Oct 2015 #8
While I sympathize to an extent, the head of HR rarely is involved in the decision to axe. They are stevenleser Oct 2015 #10
Pitchforks are still being sharpened I guess. PowerToThePeople Oct 2015 #13
Torches are being wicked and filled with kerosene meow2u3 Oct 2015 #14

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
11. While I deplore violence
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 05:02 PM
Oct 2015

It is well beyond the time that those that make such job cut decisions come to the conclusion that the working class is had it up to it's eyeballs and if we don't start moving towards more equality then more of this type of reaction become much more possible.

CTyankee

(63,771 posts)
12. god, that's funny...laughed out loud at that one...
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 05:47 PM
Oct 2015

you get the prize for my first belly laugh of the day, hobbit!

 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
10. While I sympathize to an extent, the head of HR rarely is involved in the decision to axe. They are
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 01:39 PM
Oct 2015

involved after the decision is made to help implement it. (I'm talking about mass layoffs here, not a performance issue or violation of firm policies.)

If they could have ripped the shirts off of some of the members of the board that made the decision, I would have more sympathy.

meow2u3

(24,745 posts)
14. Torches are being wicked and filled with kerosene
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 08:37 PM
Oct 2015

...or kerosene.

Wicks? Check.
Match/lighter? Check.
Extra fuel in case the kero runs out? Check.
A 5-gallon kerosene tank? Check.

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