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March 17, 2006

Hell no, we won't go...

...to work:

This week, students were protesting a newly passed law that has the support of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, a leading presidential candidate from Chirac's party. The measure, due to go into effect in April, will make it easier to hire and fire young people at a time when the youth unemployment rate averages 23 percent.

The protesters' anger focuses on provisions that will allow companies to fire employees under 26 at any time during their first two years of work, without cause.

"They're offering us nothing but slavery," said Maud Pottier, 17, a student at Jules Verne High School in Sartrouville, north of Paris, who was wrapped in layers of scarves as protection against the chilly, gray day. "You'll get a job knowing that you've got to do every single thing they ask you to do because otherwise you may get sacked. I'd rather spend more time looking for a job and get a real one."

Why, the nerve of employers, expecting you to do what they ask!

It's like these kids expect to have tenure, or something.

Cheese-Eating Tenure Monkeys...

Heh.

Posted by Confederate Yankee at March 17, 2006 12:01 AM | TrackBack
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You'll get a job knowing that you've got to do every single thing they ask you to do because otherwise you may get sacked.

This is the funniest statement I've seen in quite a while. That's pretty much the definition of being an employee. Is he expecting to get a job and then do whatever he wants to do, and have someone pay him for it?

Too funny.

Posted by: Kevin at March 18, 2006 03:43 AM

Friggin' French.

It's almost like God put them on Earth just to amuse us.

Posted by: WC Varones at March 19, 2006 12:49 AM