Chronicles of alienated labor, by Aline Torterat, occupational physician Marie-Christine,
handler[1] ---- It's been twenty-five years I have been working in this business eight
years in that service, after years of work on the chain line... whatever. Years as
versatility. I know all the positions handling. Here I am shipping, load, empty, reload. A
job dude. I was the second woman to do that. It is properly paid, I'm not complaining.
---- I am in conflict with my manager, Mr. Beau Gosse, as I call it. It looks like Alain
Delon. We can not see. There ten years had gone on strike due to threats of dismissal, it
was very likely to have followed. He quickly asked to stop everything. He was a steward
and is the only one who drew profit... Since his career took off. It is everywhere,
secretary of HSC[2] and company!
It has transformed my management position of any errors. Since the computer returns to the
problems of quantity or labeling through all that is stamped "urgent". It has always been
understaffed, so it's very very hard. In addition I am constantly monitor. I have
different instructions of others, I have new hours, so I am no longer break with friends
service. My chefaillon even follows me to the bathroom not that I linger. He harasses me
all day. I started seriously depressed and one day I made a suicide attempt. I'm off work
for six months.
Before that position turned, now it's always me. It has spoiled a day when I found a
carrier with a colleague working on the internet for the customs form to go faster and
avoid misreporting. It was a scandal, I wondered why. And last week, a colleague with whom
I had set it up tried to get a shot. It was his wife who was arrested. I learned he also
harassed. It's terrible because I had never made the connection between our troubles and
our new computer form for customs. And here I am wondering, because fraud on this scale,
it is not possible that management may not be aware of. At least aware, if not more... It
is very valuable that we care. I had not made the connection.
[1] Only the name is changed, the rest is authentic.
[2] hygiene, safety and working conditions committee.
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