"But have you looked at the photo I just sent you? The platform is crowded! I've been waiting for an underground for 1 hour 30 minutes. "On the line 8 platform (Créteil-Pointe-du-Lac / Balard), this Monday morning, Maisons-Alfort Les Juilliottes station, Louise, pleads her case on the phone in front of a hierarchical superior clearly reluctant to hear the reasons of his delay. She's not the only one.
In Paris and in the suburbs, in public transport, there are many, arms in the air, to immortalize the consequences of the strike, in progress since December 5 against the pension reform. The goal? Have proof of their good faith in the event of late work, or even proof of absence.
"The image will speak, I hope"
“Tolerance for telework has fizzled out among our chefs. Now you have to be there. The message was very clearly passed on in the teams, but I'm not a magician. I can not teleport to Opera, enrage this employee of the banking sector, in the ninth arrondissement. It's crazy, Kafkaesque, the argument I can not move for lack of transport is no longer valid with the hierarchy. So I took the photo of this crowded dock to explain it. If the words no longer have any weight, the image will speak, I hope, of itself. "
Despite everything, she managed to slip into a complete wagon to reach her workplace.
“Before the holidays, my manager told me: let's let the holidays go, it will circulate better at the start of the school year . I was not very optimistic and I was right, breath Jordan, salesman in a sports store in the 4th arrondissement, also stuck in the Val-de-Marne. In the team, we have a WhatsApp group. My boss is on it. I sent the photo of everyone waiting for the metro, along with a little comment: will it circulate better? No answer… ”
"If I have comments, I draw my smartphone"
Impossible for Jordan to work from home of course. “The products are not going to sell on their own. It's starting to get really tense. We get along with people who don't live too far from the store, but we can't always rely on the same people. We feel that the strike is becoming less and less an excuse for the bosses. Especially since mine lives 10 minutes away on foot. He is on another planet ”, plague the young man of 26, who finally leaves the metro at Les Juilliottes to try his luck with the RER D to Gare de Lyon.
"I took the photo just in case," says Johanna. In case what? "Well, if I am entitled to comments like this, I remind you that the shift is at 8:30 am , I draw my smartphone, warns this employee of a Parisian crèche. Then, I got into the habit of feeding social networks with my daily journey, on Twitter in particular. My superiors know that my delays are not due to pillow failures, but I'm starting to hear new music to counter the arguments of the latecomers: we're all in the same boat, Johanna. "