France Telecom hit by 24th suicide

[KiwiCoromandel]

An epidemic of suicides in one of France's largest companies claimed another victim yesterday when a 51-year-old man threw himself from a bridge. He become the 24th France Telecom employee to take his own life in the past 19 months.

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source: THE INDEPENDENT

image: Fair Use/Getty/Screengrab: FRANCE TELECOM SUICIDES....France Telecom employees arrive for work in Annecy yesterday

[Shawn]

WTF?

Like many of the France Telecom suicides, the man had been asked to change jobs as part of a restructure of the once state-owned company. Earlier this month - after the 23rd suicide - the Labour Minister, Xavier Darcos, summoned the head of France Telecom and demanded a more "humane" approach to the rebuilding of a company in which the state is still the largest share-holder.

Trade union leaders said that the man who had taken his life in Haute-Savoie was known to have been "under pressure". He had been moved from a job dealing with business clients to a call-centre at Annecy which made "cold calls" to offer services to subscribers.

So he went from being a "professional" to being a minimum wage-ish shill. Probably not enough reason to leave your two kids fatherless.