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Four Ways to Fire a Frenchman | 41 comments (41 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: Four Ways to Fire a Frenchman (none / 1)
My reply is: "why else would you want to fire someone anyways"?

You either fire an employee because you can't afford him (1), or because he doesn't do his job well (2), or because you can't stand the fact that he slept with your daughter (3). (4) is a non-issue, meant to manipulate the reader.

It's for the (3) that the CPE will be felt most ... and why we need to fight against it. As Jérôme pointed out, it's being increasingly resorted to by French companies, so with the CPE it'll all be (3): "I don't like your shoes" ... "You have bad breath" ... "What? You don't like rugby?"

by Alex in Toulouse on Tue Mar 28th, 2006 at 03:38:29 AM EST
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This is unrelated, but I just noticed that Libération has a special on known student figures active against the CPE, and this one person, here:

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(source: http://liberation.com/page.php?Article=370253&Template=GALERIE&Objet=62344)

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... was in the loud group of students (guy holding the microphone) I show in my anti-CPE demonstration picture diary:

ps: I'll be joining in today's demonstration (13:00), but still haven't decided whether I'll be taking pictures (it may rain, and since I prefer to go with my bike -this ensures more mobility- and that the last time this proved difficult to handle while taking pictures, I might just leave the camera at home).

by Alex in Toulouse on Tue Mar 28th, 2006 at 04:24:17 AM EST
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You HAVE to take pictures! What will ET do without your pictures?!

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Mar 28th, 2006 at 04:32:28 AM EST
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We can become real 'press', but only if we have prictures by our correspondents.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Mar 28th, 2006 at 04:34:53 AM EST
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Exactly. One the FT is out, we can take over all the ad slots...

When through hell, just keep going. W. Churchill
by Agnes a Paris on Tue Mar 28th, 2006 at 07:45:59 AM EST
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Re: Four Ways to Fire a Frenchman (4.00 / 3)
Yeees! I made up my mind in the shower, I will be taking pictures. In fact the demonstration starts near my flat, so I can even go a few floors up in the Town's Central Library (médiathèque) and take pictures of the crowd from above (just at the start I mean, after that I'll dive inside the crowd with my bike).
Ok I need to go to a friend's house first to try to convince her to come, so I'm signing off now. See y'all later.
by Alex in Toulouse on Tue Mar 28th, 2006 at 04:45:31 AM EST
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