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- QuackAttack818, on 04/08/2009, -6/+40The French never cease to amaze when it comes to crazy *****
- caution, on 04/08/2009, -2/+32Since when are people entitled to keep their job?
- ThePenrod, on 04/08/2009, -3/+32Without reading the article I thought "lock up" meant some sort of whistle blowing activity, I am pleased that the reality is much, much, more hilarious.
- saigumi, on 04/08/2009, -10/+34Uh.. no.
In the US, this would be known as false imprisonment and each one of the yahoos that participated would face some serious repurcussions including criminal and civil prosecution.
You may not like your boss, you might not like getting laid off, but them are the haps and you can go f--- off. - Brandynp, on 04/08/2009, -11/+34Wacky frogs
- Shigglyboo, on 04/08/2009, -8/+30I lived in a French home for a week. They were very kind and didn't smell bad. Their country helped us win our Revolutionary war. They gave us the Statue of Liberty. I'm really sick of all the anti-French sentiment going on in the US. Educate yourself, they're just other humans on the same planet as us. No reason to dislike them. And if you do for some personal reasons, why do you feel the need to "throw it out there"?
- dse78759, on 04/08/2009, -2/+20In socialist France, workers lay off you!
- jkr801, on 04/08/2009, -1/+18LIKE A BOSS
- inactive, on 04/08/2009, -3/+18"Lock up"? "Bossnapping"? I believe the legal term in America is "kidnapping". Those wacky French kids and their zany antics. I imagine the boss takes them out for a beer afterward and they have a good laugh about it.
What moron of any nationality would possibly think this is going to result in job retention verses criminal prosecution? Dumbasses. - mparker21311, on 04/08/2009, -0/+14I'd be charged with sexual harassment.
- BassMastr, on 04/08/2009, -3/+17I lived in France for four years and generally agree with you. However there are just as many French people who hate American for no reason. Americans do not corner the market on stupidity. While I am pumped they helped us out 200 plus years ago I think we have repaid them at least two fold in the past hundred years. Don't forget it was France who was making billions off Saddam illegally through the food for Oil program and empowered him when the world was trying to rein him in. Don't try and tell me those billions didn't help to empower him and make him stronger.
While people don't directly blame France for Vietnam...they sure didn't help much. Yes you are right to paint all French with one brush is wrong but to say France has been a great friend for 200 years isn't exactly accurate either. - thespiff, on 04/08/2009, -4/+16French labor has a such a huge sense of entitlement that they should call themselves Paris Hilton.
They get tons of vacation, and huge amounts of labor rights. It's often cheaper (in the short AND long term) for a company to keep a bad employee on board than to pay the penalties for firing them. And it's extremely difficult to legally fire someone there anyway. - tavallai, on 04/08/2009, -3/+15You say you want a revolution, well, you know...
*wheels out the ol' guillotine* - KSUdesigner, on 04/08/2009, -1/+13...until they came to the conclusion that they shouldn't pay us for our lunch break, so now we're working 8 to 5.
- inactive, on 04/07/2009, -4/+15I don't need a boss
- protogenxl, on 04/08/2009, -2/+12Working 9 to 5 ............
- inactive, on 04/08/2009, -2/+12Will lock you up, like a boss.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NisCkxU544c - korvan504521, on 04/08/2009, -2/+12your fair share is what you agreed to work for. if you don't like it, get your own job.
you could have bought stock in the company too if it was public.
just because you're a boss, doesn't mean you have control. everyone has a boss of their own. and the top boss, the ceo, his boss is all the stockholders. - dalnet22, on 04/08/2009, -3/+13I will not lock up Bruce Springsteen.
- BassMastr, on 04/08/2009, -4/+14Mindless mobs...
- UnpossibIe, on 04/08/2009, -0/+9I don't know how things are in France, but in the U.S. not many bosses (managers) have the power most people think they do. The ability to terminate people usually comes from HR. Laying off a group of people is normally done by senior directors and VP's. Managers can fight for you, but the ultimate decision to lay off people usually isn't theirs.
- ousthouse, on 04/08/2009, -1/+9If you hire somebody, you're required to employ them for the rest of your life.
- domenics, on 04/08/2009, -2/+9Desperate times. If I was single and had no family and working a blue-collar job and had no assets to protect, some free room and board in jail might not be that big of a deterrent.
- rolf, on 04/08/2009, -1/+8I never wanted a boss, I was independent and self-employed.
Then I got married... :(
(Kidnapping in this case won't make much difference.) - stk198323, on 04/08/2009, -0/+7Ok see if for the first 19hr 51 min it only receive 2 diggs and then get's 33 diggs in the next hour then of course it will make front page!
- tizzleG, on 04/08/2009, -0/+7Yes, I heard that. You said it like 400 times.
- inactive, on 04/08/2009, -4/+11At the start of the Iraq invasion the steel distribution company I worked for had a customer who had a bumper sticker on his truck that said "Boycott France". Probably because of their lack of airspace support for the invasion.
The sad part is that he drove that truck in every day to buy steel, obviously unaware that our parent company was Descours and Cabaud, the largest industrial supply company in Europe, headquartered in Leon France.
Ya, that special blend of dumbass, redneck, Republican Necon makes me proud to be an American. - n3demonic, on 04/08/2009, -1/+8Since unions
- wpyh, on 04/08/2009, -2/+9***** no. If I were to be laid off, I get laid off for a reason. And it's his company, it's his business whether he wants to fire me today or tomorrow or even next year. I don't have a say in the decision-making process.
Maybe I'll go find another job or start my own company, but I will never ever do such a childish thing as locking up my boss. - Chompy, on 04/08/2009, -0/+6I'm the boss.
- covertbadger, on 04/08/2009, -3/+9"I'm really sick of all the anti-French sentiment going on in the US."
It's funny. I remember back before the Iraq invasion the French said it would be illegal, and millions of apoplectic Americans started screaming blue murder about it. It got so bad that someone joked about renaming 'French Fries' to 'Freedom Fries', and plenty of people took the idea seriously. Now, 6 years later when everyone has come around to the French way of thinking, the US just forgets about it and finds another reason to hate them. The xenophobia is disgusting.
No, I'm not French. - nikki2300dk, on 04/08/2009, -2/+8Obviously not a good practice, but at least it's 'proactive'. ;-)
- diseasefree, on 04/08/2009, -3/+9wow, if you don't see anything wrong with that.... wow
hey I know how to prove my value to a profitable company. I'll kidnap the boss and force him to pay me more. Ya! How come no one ever tried that? - sb66, on 04/08/2009, -4/+10WTF? Just confirms how wierd the french are.
- tavallai, on 04/08/2009, -1/+7It doesn't stop the layoffs.
It may not even help the severance negotiation (which is their goal).
What it does do, though, is bring attention to the overseas boardroom who made the decision to downsize, reminding them that they're dealing with people's lives - not just numbers. - BassMastr, on 04/08/2009, -2/+8Kinda funny that the people who were loudest aginst the war on Irag were also the ones making billions from them illegally on the Oil for Food program... Coiencidence? We'll never know...
- inactive, on 04/08/2009, -0/+6Ya, good for the resume. Shows definite self-assertion and a history of taking matters into their own hands.
- kyle90, on 04/08/2009, -0/+5Boss kidnapping, you say?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGxyIhsSAow - alais, on 04/08/2009, -1/+6I guess the french don't need a paycheck?
- cubicledrone, on 04/08/2009, -3/+8When the ***** did closing a profitable business and firing productive employees become capitalism? Making money is one thing. Making money AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHERS is something entirely different, and it isn't capitalism.
- cyoder, on 04/08/2009, -1/+6Your boss has to look out for the best interests of the company before the best interests of the employee. Every time. The company is greater than the employee. You should never feel secure or entitled in a position unless you are self-employed.
Kidnapping your boss when you lose your job is not "fighting" for anything. It's acting very irrationally at a point in time when you can't really afford to not use rational thinking. I was in such a situation at the beginning of last year. When I realized my position was being eliminated, my first concern was finding my next job, not some ridiculous (and unnecessary) vengeance. Besides, what's your employer supposed to do if they can't afford to keep you on staff anymore? Or if your department's budget is cut and lay-offs ensue? It's a harsh world, but that is reality. Abduction (or homicide, for that matter) will not improve your situation in any way, shape, or form. - govsucks, on 04/08/2009, -3/+8Well I am the boss but if I did work for someone other than my customers, I would be busy looking for another job instead of joining a bunch of collectivist primates in their assault on the liberty of another human being.
- ricker2005, on 04/08/2009, -5/+10This doesn't stop people from getting fired. All this does is make sure that the boss arms himself when the economy tanks and people have to be fired. Instances of bossnapping will probably decrease after the first boss reacts to being held hostage by shooting one of the kidnappers in the face.
- NtroP, on 04/08/2009, -6/+11If I were the boss, and they were to kidnap me to get concessions, I would immediately give them all a raise and improve their benefit packages and then arrange to sell the company to them. Then I would leave and start a new company and laugh my ass off when every single employee is now saddled with not only their own personal debt, but the debt of a failed company. Seriously, if they're stupid enough to justify kidnapping in a situation like this, they deserve to be tied to the sinking ship and to down with it.
Money doesn't grow on trees. If a company isn't profitable, it can't sustain payroll for long and will need to cut back. Instead of kidnapping the boss, I'd be making sure I was one of the employees that was making the company profitable. Of course, as a French employee, that might mean I'd have to up my working hours to maybe even 30 hours a week or so, but I'd sure be willing to make that sacrifice to save my job. - Chompy, on 04/08/2009, -1/+5Yeah they saved our ass during the Revolutionary war, but we paid that debt back, in full, about 65 years ago.
- ralphodog, on 04/08/2009, -0/+4In France you're not allowed to fire people without proving they're grossly negligent, then you also have to pay penalties on that. The French are overwhelming in favor of this law, and they protest it every time it comes up for review. So what do businesses do when they're stuck with anyone they hire? They stop hiring young people and only hire employees with lots of references and a proven record of good work. This has happened so much that 1/4 of people under 26 are unemployed. Yet whenever the government tries to ease regulations to encourage more hiring, people riot until they stick with the old system.
- SteelChicken, on 04/08/2009, -0/+4get another job? is it that hard?
- tloftxj, on 04/08/2009, -0/+4Reminds me of Louis XVI in 1791
Those crazy French people. - warriorscot, on 04/08/2009, -0/+4Its the same thing over there. But in France they are a little looser with the laws in that people have a greater freedom to express themselves and popular choice always wins even if its wrong.
- JDanner3, on 04/08/2009, -0/+4Atta boy!
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