Le mardi 24 mai 2005 à 06:50 +0100, Sophie Gautier a écrit : > Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Sophie Gautier a écrit : > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'm jumping here. For those of you who are able to read French, the > >> consortium MutualInfo, which is grouping 3 corporates : > > > > > > EDF/GDF (energy) > > > > EDF and Gaz de France are separating so I guess we can say 4 corporates > > now :) > > > > (Never write/say GDF BTW - the people who work there are very sensitive > > about not being lumped with EDF. Use Gaz de France like in the > > MutualInfo paper) > > Well I'm invited for a talk very soon there, and they said EDF/GDF by > themself, so I guess some of them are not so sensitive :)
The people who work for the EDF part (@edf) or still belong to common services (@edfgdf) are not. The people who work for the Gaz de France entity proper may politely ignore the slip but don't like being reminded they were the junior partner in this long association (at least this was what someone painstakingly explained to me when I did this social gaffe myself). All the more so since they've been careful to put Gaz de France in all their official documents for some time and change their corporate logo to be different than the EDF one but most people still routinely call them GDF. It'd be stupid to leave a bad impression because of this small thing wouldn't it? Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot
