We Should Be Ashamed of Ourselves!
Remember when Carly Fiorina fired 20,000 HP employees on short notice, shipped all their jobs overseas, and gave herself a big raise. To make that whole thing a la mode, she is now running for President on that action.
From this day forward, nobody in this damn beauty salon can tease about the French being sissies or surrender monkeys.
Air France announced 3,000 job cuts and the only thing their CEO and Human Resources Manager are running for is Switzerland.
Several hundred employees stormed the Central Meeting of Air France, grabbed the head of the airline and HR director and shouted ,”A poil, à pool, which is French for “Get them buck naked!”
And they did.
And with the help of security, he finally started over the fence to safety.
The CEO of the company was able to keep his shirt but not his dignity.
Do you think either of those two men can now run for President of France? Hell, I doubt they will be allowed to order a bottle of wine.
And here’s another part you will find amusing. In some ways their politicians are much like ours.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who has backed management over the restructuring drive, said he was “scandalised by this unnacceptable violence”.
He’s owned by management.
Thanks to Susan for the heads up.
“Apres vous, les deluge” should be tattooed on every Koch-ho in the legislature and the judiciary.
Maybe I should learn how to knit now.
1I would love to see pictures of Mitt and Carly scrambling over a fence.
2Mittens couldn’t climb a fence if his life depended on it. Now sit on a fence, that’s a different matter.
3Executives are cowards. It’s easy to lay off people to “save” money instead of doing the hard thing and reduce the salaries of the top executives and ignore the investors demands of raising stock prices and increasing dividends immediately. They want to be profitable but the bigger chunk of their profits is paying for executive salaries, stock options, bonuses and perks and boosting investor stock prices. It’s time to bring out the tumbrels.
4You do find the most interesting stuff.
5This is delightful. Not that I condone mob violence, but….it wasn’t actually violence, was it? Wish we could see that happen to a few CEOs around here.
6Geez! Even Elvis didn’t have that much trouble leaving the building. Sometimes ya just gotta love the French. Oui?
7Oh… and as I like to remind people when the need arises; a guillotine is very easy to make and operate!
8Come on, guys! No one wants to see Snarly naked.
9DH worker for a fortune 100 company. At the annual meetings etc, the company had shills to line up to ask “questions” from share holders. If a real shareholder really got to the microphone and got surly they cut off the mic. Their drivers were bodyguards, and they entered the building by private elevator. No chance for the public to get near them. I Suspect these guys were not the only American company officers so protected.
10So much shame, such little time:
Florida’s upgraded to a shiny twinkly new “Stand your Ground” law. They’ve lubed the law to make it easier to kill AND it requires the state to reimburse killers for their troubles after killing — up to $200,000
http://wonkette.com/#JClkCfXg8rqQSm6j.99
Shame is not evident on this Real America face who ran her candidacy on ‘fight corruption’ and out of the gate, screwed 65,000 voting registrants via police investigations. She is now in court on 65 charges of corruption–using over $400,000 for casinos is the tip of her values ice berg.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/new-mexicos-republican-secretary-of-state-faces-65-corruption-charges-including-identity-theft/
11@ Crone “shills to ask questions” really a punch to the gut awful to learn. An Irish lawyer hired by Wall Street brokerage (as in house legal counsel to guide hiding $ in Ireland for investors) was in Manhattan during the Occupy protests. She resigned the next day after the entire staff was told to go up on the roof of the office tower.
Awaiting them were crates of champagne to fill the bladder then urinate off the roof top to the protectors on the sidewalk.
She is now back in Ireland with a deep, deep contempt for ‘Murcans.
12daChipster, this is one of those occasions in which being naked isn’t important. Watching them attempt to scramble up a fence with a well placed pitchfork in their worthless posteriors is the fun image. The difficult part would be selecting my first 100 list. Paul Ryan and Jamie Dimon are musts; now to pare down 980 into 98.
13WA Skeptic: I’m being picky, because we all know what the quote is about, but it’s actually “Apres NOUS…” After us. Vous is “you.”
14My editing alter-ego took over.
I’ve said several times that we should look back to the French Revolution as a cautionary tale. In the 18th century they had sticks and rocks. Now the “sans culottes” are armed with AR-14s!
@daChipster..
Oh god my eyes my eyes… I can’t un-see that in my imagination. Die bas*ard brain cell. Die.
15Micr, focus man, focus. Imagine a fence with your top 100 picks scurrying toward the top like the weak little moochers they are. Focus on their bloody hands, as they repeatedly slide down. For each one that splashes down in mud, have a shot of your favorite.
16JanK; thanks for the correction. I’d seen “apres vous…” in another context (as in looking at and speaking to an offending aristo) so used it.
It was in a Diana Gabaldon book where she watched a raging French aristo rocketing down a crowded Parisian street. Don’t have the exact title at hand, so I’m sure another “Outlander” fan will be able to supply it.
17I have a new appreciation for French culture. But they do get fairly glandular with their protests, dumping rotting produce in front of the legislature etc. as I recall.
18If the average working class or middle class American would pay attention to what’s happening in this country for five minutes we would see that kind of protest here.
19@pkm
You da man! We are so unworthy…
20Micr, it was Miss Juanita Jean who inspired me and deserves all the credit. She mentioned Carly being incapable of stability on a tripod. I’ve been busy featuring a tripod of pitchforks to stabilize the gnarly creature. Then the rest of the creatures scurrying … it’s all good.
21I hope every damn 1% executive in this country gets a load of this! I predicted this would happen just based on my reading of French history prior to and during their Revolution. And, of course, they insisted they didn’t believe me. Now they have to eat their own balony sandwich. We have seen a model to follow!
22The late Jimmy Hoffa would be proud.
23This is what should happen to the NRA, gun and ammo manufacturers and the Repugs and Dems who voted against tighter gun control restrictions.
24Unfortunately, in this country, the police would be armed, the corporate execs’ security goons would be armed, and probably quite a few of the protesters would be armed. So instead of a fun, good old public humiliation and pantsing, we’d probably end up with a gun battle, and a bunch of people dead/injured/in jail.
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