Bossnapping Occurs in France as Employees Brace Themselves for Pending Layoffs
Have you ever imagined kidnapping your boss? Um, neither have we but this story from France made us wonder why it’s not uncommon over there! Hmmm.
According to Fortune, 200 employees working at a Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. plant in Amiens took two executives hostage on Monday by preventing them from leaving their facility. Sounds like the workers weren’t happy about Goodyear’s intentions of shutting down the factory and pink slipping 1,200 employees.
A representative of the workers told a local radio station in France that they were holding the execs hostage in order to demand their employer return to talks to seek a “voluntary departure plan.”
Well, the bosses were held for 30 hours and they were free on Tuesday when cops arrived onto the scene.
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