MAN boss Andreas Tostmann has offended many employees with his tough savings plans.
Now the boss of the Munich truck builder is causing displeasure with a LinkedIn post.
MAN
and its Swedish competitor
Scania
belong to the VW subsidiary
Traton
.
Now the
Traton
bosses
have come together
for a strategy meeting in
Sweden
.
The mood was apparently relaxed, as a post by MAN boss
Andreas Tostmann
is supposed to demonstrate on LinkedIn.
But that is exactly what is proving to be a problem.
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Munich - In Corona times, a very simple rule actually applies: keep your distance, observe hygiene and wear a mask.
In many companies this is strictly controlled.
At the Munich truck manufacturer MAN, they send their own corona teams from the plant security patrols.
The troop patrols the extensive factory premises on the outskirts of Munich several times a day and makes sure that everything is OK.
If you don't wear your mask, you get a friendly tip - or a message to your line manager.
But MAN boss Andreas Tostmann, of all people, does not seem to take corona protection very seriously.
On Wednesday, the group restructuring company posted a photo on LinkedIn that shows him with Scania boss Henrik Henriksson - with a small gap and without a mask.
It was, joked Tostmann about the photo from Scania headquarters in Södertälje, Sweden, “really cold here.
So cold ”that Henriksson had to help him out with a jacket.
The nonchalance of the top man caused horror among the MAN employees at the main plant in Munich.
“Unbelievable”, said a MAN worker on Thursday to Merkur.de *, “crazy.
What's wrong with the man? ”Asked another.
While the band workers would be checked several times a day, "Tostmann makes you very easy".
PR experts also clap their hands over their heads.
"In these times in particular, it is even more important than usual that a CEO lives up to his role model function," says the industry.
At the headquarters of the
VW
subsidiary in Munich, the engineer with his savings plans incurred the displeasure of the workforce in any case last year.
After months of negotiations, some of which were bitter, the VW subsidiary reached an agreement with the works council at the end of January to cut 3,500 jobs in Germany.
Originally, the group had wanted to cut up to 9500 jobs.
In addition, the
Plauen
(Rhineland-Palatinate)
locations
and the plant in
Steyr
in Upper
Austria are
still available.
MAN: CEO sends corona test results afterwards
In the end, however, Tostmann himself should not have been quite so in his LinkedIn post.
“For information,” he said shortly after the photo was published on the career portal: “Both of us were tested in advance.
Both results were negative. "(* Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital network)