“Télétec recrute” poster

Published November 13, 2026

By FontsInUse

Contributed by Guillaume Pinatel

“Télétec recrute” is a poster that mocks companies that are falsely kind and dismissive towards workers. This was born from a common experience in the corporate world, where supervisors do not miss an opportunity to exploit their employees a little more. Endless recruitment processes, toxic management, but LinkedIn posts that pride themselves on an extraordinary CSR policy and an exemplary quality of life at work. On this poster, TÉLÉTEC recruits a F.R.E.E.L.A.N.C.E (False emancipated report of the company, but heavily enslaved to any constraint of salaried employment) graphic designer. TÉLÉTEC is a fictional company largely inspired by the COGIP imagined by Nicolas Charlet and Bruno Lavaine, a duo of screenwriters, dialogue writers and directors from Canal+. It appears in various creations of Nicolas Charlet and Bruno Lavaine for Canal+, for the first time in the series Message à caractère informatif in 1998. They depict this company of the 1970s with its outdated structures and gray frames, symbolizing loneliness and administrative boredom. A short program that had captured the spirit of the times, 3 years before the UK Office, 5 years before the creation of LinkedIn and 19 years before Emmanuel Macron and his "Start-Up Nation".

The poster is also part of a period when young people in France are mobilizing for better educational conditions, but also for a desirable and sustainable future in the face of a system that is running out of steam. France is the country in the European Union where the proportion of 15-24 year olds looking for a job increased the most in 2025; today, it exceeds 20%.

The poster was written and designed by Bourico & Guillaume Pinatel and screenprinted on black paper with white and red ink at Atelier Garage, Lyon.

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