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Is it just me that would have fired Jean-Marc?


He was a supervisor/line leader of some sort who was deliberately lying and coercing people into voting to keep the bonuses and let Sandra go.
I have worked in a factory and people like that are terrible for morale amongst the staff. If he had been let go then somebody else could have been promoted and everyone could have the bonuses as well.
What are you like Mr. Dupont? You should have fired his a$$!

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That's the problem with the premise of the movie...it was a poorly run company which set the workers against themselves for a plot for a movie

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I can't even recall how many times I saw superiors in charge putting workers against each other. Also, I saw the same guys pushing people against their unions, claiming that they were just robbing them. I mean, that's an integral part of the work guys like Jean-Marc are paid to do: you pressure workers to believe that their jobs are always in danger, let them feel that the only way they can save it is "battling" with other co-workers and, in the process, you make them forget who is exploiting them. Also, it's a good way of creating "spies" in the working place.

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I think any normal person would just get another job, or at least sue the freaking company since I think is totally illegal...

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Like most supervisors, he was doing the bidding of his higher ups. This happens a lot more in work places than you may realize. In fact, I have not worked in a workplace in the past 40 years, even union places with grievance procedures, where that hasn't been a case. If she tried to get him fired, it would be the end of her job, anyway. Also, no workers would ever win a lawsuit over a layoff, if the justification is cost cutting, or if the boss asserts the worker is mentally unstable.

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I guess he could have been doing the bidding of the higher-ups in which case it makes sense. I certainly would'nt enjoy working for a company that operates in such an underhand fashion though (which is most companies...ooohhhh thats why I'm unemployed! :p )

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Nope, you're not the only one.

He was a worthless türd.





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Just saw it, and it's slightly implied at the end that he never did bad mouth her me try to get people to vote against her. Makes me actually want to see it again to see if a cetein character or characters lied to her.

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Oh. So, just because HE said he didn't "bad mouth" her, we're supposed to believe HIM?

Right.

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One thing that the movie may have overlooked is the fact that people still doesn't take clinical depression very seriously. There's a funny The Office episode where Michael, the boss, does a bizarre seminar about depression in the workplace and all the time you can sense that no one is taking that seriously. People still believe that taking a license because of clinical depression is just like some mid-term vacations where you'll be having fun with your family while everybody is working their asses off to compensate for your absence. If you get cancer, everybody will stand up for you and will not complain about working overtime, but something like depression sounds minimal and a prissy personal phase,
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I think a lot in this movie is about the people around Sandra, the lack of accountability, the groupthink, the pressure for compliance.

Two characters actually say that Jean-Marc is at the roots of this - Juliette, not on screen, and Alphonse, talking about him being on a contract that runs out in September.
Perhaps Juliette was bending the truth to give Sandra the confidence to talk to her colleagues, making it easier for Sandra to accept that they were coerced to vote for the bonus, rather than it being a matter of free choice.

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J-M is the movie's antagonist; his actions are what Cottillard's character is struggling against throughout the film. However, after the climactic final vote, she realizes that she has a support network, and that was what she really needed to fulfill her happiness, not the job itself.

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It's not clear that he was. I think he was just the union representative.

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