Trois heures par jour ? Tous les jours? Va te faire...!

Trois heures par jour ? Tous les jours? Va te faire...!

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Wednesday 20th February 2013
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Well the Telegraph is on a bit of a roll this week, with today's gem.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis...

The boss of US tyremaker Titan has mocked French workers for putting in only "three hours" a day and said his company would be "stupid" to take over an ailing French factory.

Maurice Taylor, chief executive of Titan, berated the French work ethic in response to a request for the US company to consider investing in a loss-making Goodyear plant in Amiens, northern France.

"They get one hour for breaks and lunch, talk for three and work for three. 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. Titan has no interest in the Amiens North factory," he wrote.