Frenchman were left choking on their frogs legs and crying “zut alors!” after the chief executive of an American multi-national used out-dated stereotypes to blast the country’s workforce.
In a move which is sure to leave the average Frenchie crying into their beret and stripy shirt, Titan International’s Maurice Taylor, nicknamed “The Grizz” for his negotiating style, delivered a crushing summary of how some outsiders view France’s work ethic, accusing staff there of only working for three hours a day.
Taylor was responding to a plea from the leftwing French industry minister who had hoped the American would rescue a factory set for closure.
“The French workforce gets paid high wages but works only three hours. They get one hour for breaks and lunch, talk for three and work for three,” Taylor wrote on February 8 in the letter in English to the minister, Arnaud Montebourg.
“I told this to the French union workers to their faces. They told me that’s the French way! Titan is going to buy a Chinese tyre company or an Indian one, pay less than one Euro per hour wage and ship all the tyres France needs. You can keep the so-called workers.”
Taylor’s comments are the latest blow to France’s image after verbal attacks last year by Montebourg on firms seeking to shut ailing industrial sites prompted international mockery.
Combined with concerns over plans for a 75 per cent “millionaires tax”, Montebourg’s antics drove Gummidge-haired London Mayor Boris Johnson to claim France was being run by left-wing revolutionaries. When you’re being made to look foolish by Boris Johnson of all people, it’s probably time to take stock of your position.
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