Meal ticket, train ticket... Same thing

LONG LIVE THE SNCF

Annual receipts: 57 billion F, annual budget: 118,5 billion F, annual state subsidy: 75 billion F. Financing retirements: 14 billion (with our taxes) Debt burden: 232 billion.

The situation for a typical driver of TGV:
- Wages: starting at 14.000 F Net per month, 32.000 FF conducting Net TGV at the end of the career, Christmas bonus, educational benefit, TGV benefit, a coal discount (you read that right), holidays free (let us remain calm), paid vacation, overtime pay, a non-taxable relocation allowance, a 25 hours per week schedule
For a 40 year old TGV driver, the annual take-home pay and benefits comes to 490.000 FF. Retirement is at 50 years. Medical care: free at one of the 15.900 approved hospitals, doctor’s offices, and clinics covered at 100%. Other privileges: free train fare for their families

AND EMPLOYMENT FOR LIFE... AND THEY DARE GO ON STRIKE and take the USERS (the word customer doesn’t exist at the SNCF) HOSTAGE...

Hilarious! Read the whole thing in the original Sanskrit.