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pose nude, save your job?

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Hey, remember that movie The Full Monty? Well, now the story is coming to France, as factory workers in the town of Ploufragan have posed for a nude calendar in an attempt to get some publicity and call attention to their plight. After finding out that they would be facing layoffs where 207 of the factory’s 251 workers would likely be laid off, some of the men at the factory decided to, er, make the best of things. The calendars are currently selling for 7 euros each. As for the response?

Ludovic L’Hostellier, 32, is “Mr. February.” His nude pose is in a big box whose lid is closing on him. The box is labeled Chaffoteaux.

“It represents the company closing, just like the box I’m in,” he explained by phone.

He said his wife was pleased with the photos and “we have had only good reactions” to the calendar.” He said if he does lose his job at the end of the year, he will look for another immediately. “We can’t live without working,” he said.

jamie kennedy’s assistant drama

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Man, has it been one heck of a 24 hours in assistant-related drama for Jamie Kennedy.

This morning, Perez Hilton reported that Kennedy was cheating on his current girlfriend, actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, with his ex-girlfriend, former Britney Spears assistant Shannon Funk. That info in itself is pretty juicy and worthy of an STA post. However, it gets so much better.

Later today, another post appeared on Perez. This one outed the “source” on the original story as Jamie’s assistant, Miguel, who has been fired:

Miguel went nuts and started making shit up. This is a David Spade situation, where the assistant gets jealous of the star’s lifestyle and snaps. Miguel snapped and started texting Love late at night and just being a freak. Then he tried to take Jamie down by making shit up. Jamie’s lucky he didn’t get tazered in his sleep by this guy!

Harsh - but very interesting!

maybe the best work angst song ever

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I cannot fucking believe that I have been running this website for three years and have never posted this song. Time to remedy that immediately.

Fun fact: Prince wrote this song! He apparently had a huge crush on Susanna Hoffs, the lead singer, but she wasn’t interested.

Lame fact: I think I know all the words to this song. OK, that’s a lie. I definitely know all the words.

workers fight for their right to porn-y

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I hereby apologize for not being able to resist that headline.

Employees at a pizza-making plant in Ireland recently landed themselves in hot water after viewing porn at work. However, the workers argue that their firings weren’t about porn as much as they were about revenge. They and other members of their union are now planning a protest at the factory, which is located in County Kildare.

The company said three workers lost their jobs after viewing “adult material” and breaching the company’s internet policy. But their union claims they are being scapegoated.

“One of our members received an email from outside the plant and was essentially dismissed for receiving an email,” said TEEU general secretary designate, Eamon Devoy.

Over 40 workers went on strike last month after the workers lost their jobs.

The TEEU said the sackings were linked to a separate incident when the company sent a confidential file about seven redundancies to a worker by mistake.

Sounds suspicious to me, all right. Although perhaps this is a good time to remind everyone to keep their porn-viewing habits confined to the comfort of your own bedrooms.

courtney love was an assistant

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“My first boyfriend’s mother was in wardrobe and I was her assistant. The first film I worked on was Mommie Dearest. I used to measure people nipple to nipple. The first line I heard from Miss Dunaway was: ‘Who is that fat girl in my eyeline?’ I was terrified. Funnily enough, when I became a movie star for five seconds [in The People vs Larry Flynt, for which she won critical acclaim], Sharon Stone called me and said, ‘Welcome to the industry. When I got here, Miss Dunaway welcomed me.’ And I was like, ‘Miss Dunaway has welcomed me already.’”

- Courtney Love in the Times Online

work advice from ‘law & order’

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Law and Order, the show that wouldn’t die, airs its 20th season premiere tonight. In honor of that huge anniversary, Examiner.com has collected a list of workplace lessons you should have learned from past episodes of the show, including:

Literacy is important in any profession. When drug dealer Michael Ingrams is stiffed by a real estate agent in a deal, he needs to get revenge for the fraud. Obviously, it only makes good business sense to hire a contractor to do this dirty work for him, but little does he know his teenage hit man is illiterate. As a result, the hired killer goes to work at the wrong house. (Episode: Mushrooms, Season 1)

If you want to get revenge on a rival colleague, make sure you know where he lives. Physicist Edward Manning steals a revolutionary scientific idea from struggling scientist Max Weiss. Weiss, who is having trouble supporting his family, gets revenge by sending a bomb to his rival. However, he didn’t realize that Manning had moved when he separated from his wife, and as a result the unsuccessful scientist ends up killing her instead. (Episode: Big Bang, Season 4)

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jimmy fallon needs an intern

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Late night talk show host Jimmy Fallon needs an intern. But instead of sifting through boring applications and reading countless resumes, he’s decided to make the search a little more interesting. Potential interns have to submit a video of them saying nothing but “Oh, hello. I didn’t see you there.” Watch as some of the applicants get super creative with the contest:

‘going postal’ goes to a new, sad level

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You’ve heard of “going postal,” a euphemism for “going crazy” that was coined when several disgruntled postal employees all started firing off weapons at work. Well, now there’s a newer, sadder phenomenon happening. Within the last 18 months, 23 employees of France Telecom, a telecommunications company, have committed suicide. While there’s no other known link between the different employees other than their jobs (France Telecom is a nationwide company, and the employees who killed themselves were not all in the same offices). The Times Online has a fascinating in-depth article with possible theories about what led these civil cervants to take their own lives:

Le travail is the cornerstone of modern France in other ways, too, Baudelot says. “In Italy and Spain, people rely on the family for solidarity. In the UK, there is both a cult of individualism where you are taught to get by on your own and a sort of primal neighbourhood solidarity — in the pub, for instance. France is different. People are taught to get by in groups and it is in the workplace where they seek the solidarity they need. The workplace is the cement of our society.”

The cement, however, is cracking as unemployment and globalisation impose a competitive edge to the world of work. “The violence of the modern economy is the same everywhere. But it is felt much more keenly in France,” says Baudelot. “People sense that social bonds are unravelling and they are disorientated by that.”

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lloyd gets a last name

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I have to admit, I can’t really stand Entourage. I view it as Sex and the City for guys and am totally sick of listening to male friends of mine have inane conversations where they argue about who is the Vince in their circle and who is the Eric. However, I get sucked into watching it mostly for one character, the ever-beleaguered assistant, Lloyd (Rex Lee), and his banter with his evil boss, Ari (Jeremy Piven).

This season, Lloyd got tired of being Ari’s bitch and decided to strike out on his own as a talent agent. Ari, who a) thought Lloyd was the best assistant he ever had, and b) hates to be challenged/threatened in any way, obviously didn’t handle it well. Lloyd went after Johnny Drama, movie star Vince’s less cool brother, as his first client. Ari responded by also trying to woo Drama, even though he’d never expressed interest in Drama or his work before. Luckily for Lloyd, Drama realized that Lloyd actually cared about him as a client and a person, while Ari just wanted to stick it to Lloyd by stealing his client.

So, a mini triumph for Lloyd, but knowing this show it’s obvious Ari is going to try and sabotage Lloyd and make his life miserable. I look forward to seeing how the “Gaysian” does out on his own. In the meantime, though, an incredibly important thing happened - single-monikered Lloyd finally got a last name. (It’s Lee, the same as his portrayer’s.) This is sort of like when your email goes from being assistant@company.com to being yourname@company.com. It may seem like a small change, but it’s actually a huge leap for your self-esteem. Team Lloyd Lee!

walter cronkite's grandson gets internship

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Vanity internship alert! Walter Cronkite IV, the grandson of beloved anchor Walter Cronkite, has landed a fall semester internship at - try not to be too shocked here - CBS News. Specifically, he’s at their Washington, DC bureau. I assume this must mean that Cronkite (known to pals as “Walt”) attends college somewhere in the DC area, since he’s currently a full-time student. From Mediabistro:

At the memorial for his grandfather, Bob Schieffer talked about how Walt stopped in to his office the other day and asked, “What was it like when my grandfather was here?” Schieffer told him, “It was fun. We all wanted to be there.”