Is the “coolest show on PAF” really cool? Maybe on set, but certainly not behind the scenes if we are to believe a survey published this Monday, September 23, 2024 by Telerama : the magazine reports cases of “suffering at work, poor management or accusations of harassment” within teams.
“A company that can crush you”
According to a former executive (who prefers to remain anonymous), the show presented by Yann Barthès and watched every evening by nearly 2 million viewers, is “a crazy undertaking with crazy resources… but which can also very easily crush you.”
To illustrate these points, Telerama evoked the recent dismissal of a graphic designer who, deciding to participate in the movement of intermittent audiovisual workers, had walked out for “a little over an hour”; the very next day, his manager had informed him that they were ending their collaboration because he had “betrayed her trust and put the previous day’s broadcast in danger”.
Depressions and Industrial Tribunals
For its part, Bangumi, the production company created thirteen years ago by Yann Barthès and Laurent Bon, states, through one of its deputy editors-in-chief, that “well-being at work is a subject taken very seriously by everyone.” Telerama quoted yet an employee who is a victim of depression and who denounces “intimidation, harsh, gratuitous, public, incessant criticism”.
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Always according to Teleramaat least four employees are said to have taken their disputes to the industrial tribunal: two journalists and the columnist duo Éric and Quentin (who left discreetly in 2019). These cases are said to have ended with “amicable” negotiations and strong confidentiality clauses.