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meadowrun

17th Aug 2018 10:46

Zut Alors!

Air France board likely to name Air Canada executive (Benjamin Smith) as chief executive.

Labor groups say appointing a foreign manager ‘inconceivable’ (Inconcevable, incroyable, merde).

Man's flying into a minefield.

(Slowly bring up La Marseillaise in the background)

BA318

17th Aug 2018 10:56

No likely about it. It was announced yesterday.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-union-dissent

PAXboy

17th Aug 2018 13:22

Bring in an outsider (foreign or a consultant)
Get them to do all the dirty work - like making people redundant.
When he's done that - fire him and apologise to the workforce.
Bring in another soft local to restore harmony.

It's a corporate SOP.

PAXboy

18th Aug 2018 00:26

Part of my career was being a consultant in IT and Telecommunications. You could quickly tell when you were being asked to implement what they did not have the backbone for ...

meadowrun

18th Aug 2018 01:22

Well Mr. Smith is COO at AC so if he has the smarts that go with those jobs he'll have some air-tight contract that will see him rosy whatever happens..
Execs mostly always cover their asses.

ssflyer

18th Aug 2018 10:07

And.no doubt,he is multi lingual ,although the Parisians won't understand his français québécois
SS

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