Total Energy
Credit : Total Energy
The job of pump attendant, which some of you may have known, had completely disappeared, but know that Total Energies is trying to revive it. Report in a station in Quimper (29).
Originally, the Total Energie company wanted to equip 200 additional stations this year in France, or 300 in total, counting those which already do so. In Quimper, this is something new: since the start of the school year, the Brest road station has had a young pump attendant, ready to serve you with caburants.
“I wanted to do it because today we are dematerializing everything”
Gilles Jourdain met Laurent le Moing, the manager who recruited Maxime at the pump. “It was the CEO of Total Énergies who launched this at the beginning of the year and for my part, I took the plunge! I wanted to do it because today we are dematerializing everything, it there are not many services anymore, and I think we need to save these jobs which may not be miraculous, but not everyone can be a doctor or engineer today... In many trades, we remove these small jobs which despite everything provide a living for people, and then this restores service to customers.”
Maxime Lorgère is the new pump attendant, aged 18, currently hired on a fixed-term contract. For two months, his role has been “to serve customers with fuel.
Overall happy customers
Maxime Lorgère
When I learned the information, I came to apply by coming to see the boss with my CV and I was recruited. And there is a chance that it will potentially be transformed into a permanent contract, like elsewhere in France where other pump attendants have been placed on a permanent contract, but for the moment we remain on a fixed-term contract... Let’s say that overall customers say yes to me when I ask them, and very few wait for me to serve them and a small minority refuses to be served.”
In Quimper, some station customers interviewed are delighted or even delighted with this help at the pump. “It’s very nice, it reminds me of my youth and it should be like that everywhere. It’s a lot of work and it puts human beings everywhere, where there are more. I was quite surprised, but now I come because I find it nice. I’m doing it like old times… I find it rather pleasant, it gives me time to clean the car a little. For me, it’s totally new, I know it abroad but not in France.
“It keeps people busy and it’s helpful”
Now we’re getting back into odd jobs, it’s good because it keeps people busy and at least it’s helpful, especially to older people who can’t help themselves much…”
The return of the pump attendant makes it possible to “provide service and link” especially since refueling… is not always very pleasant (smell). According to TotalEnergies, pump attendants receive a gross salary of 1,800 euros for 35 hours of work per week.
