French Holiday
By p1kef1sh
@p1kef1sh (45681)
August 15, 2015 4:10pm CST
No folks, this isn't a travelogue about the p1ke family's Summer holiday in La Belle France - in fact we haven't been on a holiday this Summer although we did manage a week in Pisa and Florence earlier in the year. No, this epistle is about a wonderful story that's been reported about a French rail worker, sent home on indefinite leave pending his reallocation to another post in 2003!!! Since then he's drawn €5,000 a month (that's about $5,500) salary whilst his employers find him another job! He's somewhat tired of all the hanging round so he's now suing his employers for loss of his career. I suppose that he could have always left and tried his hand at something else; but on that kind of money there wasn't much incentive to take the plunge I guess. Nice work etc...
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@Rosekitty (19368)
• San Marcos, Texas
15 Aug 15
Oh darn and i was thinking it had something to do with a tongue!
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
15 Aug 15
@p1kef1sh Lick, lick.......
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@topffer (42156)
• France
15 Aug 15
I give you some precisions, as I heard him on the French radio. This guy is a kind of whistle-blower. He reported in 2003 a financial wrongdoing of 20 millions Euros to his direction but the railway company was perfectly knowing what it was about. They could not fire him, because he did only his job. They sent him to home the day after his report, and continued to pay him. The reason is that as long as he was employed by the railway company he had to respect a confidentiality clause on his contract : they paid for his silence ! In 2013 a law protecting the whistle-blowers in France was voted and this man started immediately a trial against the company, which is not ended today.
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@GardenGerty (160952)
• United States
16 Aug 15
I take it he was probably very willing to just continue what he was doing. Must be a rough life.
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
16 Aug 15
It'll take them a very long time to spend €20 million at €5000 a month! Cheaper to buy his silence, I'm thinking.
@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
15 Aug 15
Je parle un petit peu de francais................so I'm moving to France to not work for this guy's employer!!!! Viva La France!
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