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Originally Posted by bobnyuma
Well that would be a plus. Hopefully they wont go on strike for more french bread or wine or some other thing.
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I’ll relate a sea-story. “Now, this ain’t no …t.”
Some years back in my working days I was 1st Officer in AT&T Cableship LONG LINES to begin loading submarine telephone cable at the Cables de Lyon facility at Calais, France. The French loading gang showed up with their lunch bags including their bottle of wine and their glass “tas,” as was their habit when loading their French cableships. But AT&T was different – corporate instructions were that there would be NO “fractibles” (read glass) in the cable-handling areas. Before I even got on deck and assumed the watch, the (American) AT&T Port Engineer shortstopped and nixed the gang’s lunch bags. The loading gang was totally nonplused; they just turned-arse and marched down the gangway, and stationed themselves in their shore-side lounge room (on pay).
It became to me (a non-francophone) the duty For-God-and-AT&T to get the load-out going. With me down in the lounge (accepting far too many Gitanes cigarettes, as is also their hospitality), with nothing more to work with than grunts, hand signals, paper & pencil, and watering eyes, and over a few days, I got loading re-started (plastic bottles and special, engraved “commemorative” Lexan taz hurriedly whipped-up by Western Electric back in NJ). So it can go.
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