Employee of the Month (L’Employée du mois)

EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH

There you are Jean-Philippe, this is your new home.

EcoCleanPro, hello.

You ordered rags and you received...

floorcloths?

Ah, you mean mops!

Yes, the thing you fix to the handle.

I just got here, yes. I have to go.

It looks like it hasn't changed much.

Not sure they've got wifi.

Alright, I'll have a load of 70 delivered to you.

Yes.

- Hello. - You too.

Bye.

Oh, Mélody!

I'll be your internship supervisor.

But I'm an accounting intern... Aren't you a legal expert?

I'm multifunctional here.

Alright.

My mother says hi.

So sweet of her.

We miss her.

This reminds me... I have to order toilet paper.

Your timing is perfect:

the representative for the BtoB sale of cleaning products in Benelux

is coming to visit us today.

Anna Nilsson. You'll just love her.

Isn't she the one who had all the cleaning ladies fired

to "save" money?

Yes.

Indeed.

- Good morning. - Hello.

- Jean-Paul, Jean-Pierre. - Inès.

- This is Mélody, our new intern. - Right, Mariam's daughter.

We miss her a lot.

Jean-Pierre is our control manager and Jean-Paul, our logistics manager.

I...

I worked a bit late last night but I managed to finish.

Actually, it turns out I won't need it.

Oh?

Really?

Sorry.

Well...

I'll just...

At least I'm up to date with the ISO 9000 norms.

See you later, alligator!

It used to be my office.

Patrick preferred to keep me close by.

You're lucky you landed an internship at EcoClean.

I've gone through this with Chloé, it's hard to find.

No, it's all there, yes.

OK, let's do that. I'll see you this afternoon.

- Hello. - Hello!

Is your neck OK?

- Ouch! - Oops.

I'm Mélody, the intern.

Right! Mariam's daughter.

- Could you sign my convention? - Of course.

That's a good school.

Claude De Groot is a teacher there, isn't he?

A very nice guy. But he's so bad at golf. He sucks!

He sucks.

Thanks.

Welcome to EcoCleanPro, the cleaning pros!

Would it be OK for you to make me some more coffee?

Great.

Your first mission is to shred all of these, it's urgent.

No, no. Don't bother reading them.

It's too complex, you wouldn't get it anyway.

These look like regular VAT reports.

You shred them.

As for the rest, you check with Inès.

You know each other, don't you?

- Not much. - For so long!

Thank you.

Nilsson is almost here.

General meeting!

Annual accounts.

Hello!

I'm so glad

to meet with you all again this year.

I'm also glad because once again, this year,

Exxogroup is committed to a project of trust and innovation,

with all of its partners, to serve the creation of value.

So...

Sorry.

What is this all about? Well...

It means that each and every one of you

can be your own manager

in a collaborative but also offensive and disruptive way,

thanks to concrete...

actions,

by optimising an efficient leadership that allows each and every one of you

to be the interpreter of your employer's brand.

Surely, this is quite obvious.

- Now... - Is there some coffee left?

Let's get on with this because I know what you're thinking.

What about the brand? What about it?

Well...

All of this makes perfect sense.

With renewed efforts,

we'll manage to reach our financial goals

and preserve the stability of our shareholders.

How? Through strategic budget sobriety,

and with our vision of expertise and pricing excellence.

It will be much clearer to you

when you see this...

So now,

there's no excluding here, it doesn't mean we can't keep

an overview of the corporate culture,

of the environmental...

issues.

Patrick!

- Sceptical? - Climate-sceptic.

Good, very good. Humour is a good thing.

Then, we move on to...

the incomes according to the type of human capital.

So here we're talking about

gender equality.

An issue which is at the heart

of the communication mission of Exxogroup.

As this graph shows,

you are the worst branch of Exxogroup in that regard.

You are.

There. Any questions?

None.

Back to work.

- Patrick, can we have a word? - Of course, in my office.

Are you OK, Inès?

Are you having a stroke?

See the pink line there?

It's me.

- I was wondering... - Yeah?

- Between us women... - Yeah?

My daughter often says I should assert myself more,

but you know, it's not easy.

So what's the plan?

For?

For equal pay.

It's Patrick you should talk to.

You get along well, don't you?

I'm off.

- Inès... - Hello, Tom.

We're out of toilet paper.

The cleaning ladies are gone so it's up to us.

Tom, wait! Did you fix the storeroom door?

A chick giving orders, is she for real?

Have a lovely day too.

Inès?

Inès!

Inès!

- Inès? - Yeah?

We're out of paper.

Out of toilet paper.

EcoCleanPro, hello.

Shit!

I think I'll ask for a SUV this year.

On top of your raise?

It worked for Nico last year, didn't it?

You're right. I'll ask too.

Time for individual assessments!

I'll blow his mind away so bad that he'll get a headache.

Come in, boy.

WHY I SHOULD GET A RAISE

With a total of two half-days of sick leave over 52 quarters,

I consider that I deserve a raise.

Hey you,

I didn't want to throw shade in front of Nilsson

but your coffee was horrible again.

If you don't like it, you can...

do it yourself...

I don't care, I don't like coffee anyway.

Besides my work here as a legal expert,

I'm in charge of customer service, secretarial duties, quality control

and human resources.

...customer service, secretarial duties,

quality control,

and human resources.

And I only took two half-days off over my 17 years of working here.

You don't have to convince me how skilled you are, I know it.

Inès. If you didn't exist, we ought to create you!

- But all the others are getting a raise. - If it was up to me,

every month you'd be designated employee of the month.

But the crisis is real.

Anna Nilsson said that equal pay...

For sure.

We'll do everything in our power to make it happen.

Next year we will.

And between you and me, that's what they say, indeed.

But they don't send any extra budget for it.

Nothing, zero, squat!

Nothing.

Yep.

What about the seniority bonus? Shouldn't I get it?

Listen, Inès.

You know I'd do all I can to help you.

I didn't get elected manager of the year

for no reason.

In 1992.

But right now, there's nothing I can do, sorry.