Not wanting to try to be extraordinary anymore

Last Friday I received an email through LinkedIn. It was Friday, but it was a holiday for Bulgaria, because it is the day of Bulgarian writing and culture. And accordingly, the email was illiterately written, with grammatical and spelling errors. This is the first thing that makes a very strong impression, after the initial surprise of getting a job offer on a day off. The very feeling that I will be recruited for a job by a person who cannot competently write a short letter in his native Bulgarian language, besides recruiting people for work in German, seems quite unacceptable to me. And the position offered was clear. Even before I opened the email, I knew for what position they were looking for me. Perhaps the biggest plague for Bulgaria nowadays and one of the most slavish types of work, from which it is literally difficult to even get rid of - customer support.

I've recently been reading comments again about certain companies dealing with this and people saying how relieved they are that they've finally been able to get rid of it, they've been able to get their employment records back, which is an achievement for a company, in which you often have to pay two gross wages even if you are on probation and want to leave. Recently I also read about the practice of "buying out" employees from another employer in Bulgaria, because, as I told you, the notice period for leaving is often 3 months.
However, on the other hand, as I understand it, this 3-month notice only applies to the most servile, low-level positions. It doesn't apply to skill positions, so who would buy out a generic employee, so to speak, when there are so many others like him in the tight labor market anyway? Someone really has to be very special to get a company to "free them from slavery". But as I say, this action smells a lot like "one big slave owner buying slaves from another big slave owner" to me. Well, don't take me literally, there is no slavery in this day and age, but there are companies where the conditions are like that and often you can't know about it until you get into that company. But for me, 100% such companies are the customer support companies. I repeat again - those in Bulgaria.

So, on the occasion of this "offer" I received, I went on LinkedIn, and the first thing I saw on my wall was something even more surprising - it was a comment about some job posting and its unfavorable conditions. It was a graphic designer position. If working from home is desired, two cameras should be installed in this specially designated workplace - one showing the employee's work in a general plan, and the other directly facing his monitors.

I don't know why, but these working conditions did not make a particularly big impression on me personally. Maybe because I don't expect anything from the employers in Bulgaria, I don't expect anything good. At the same time, I expect everything from them. Any extremes and excesses. Any violations of human rights. Like this example. In fact, people have commented that it's illegal - watching the work process with cameras in your own home. But I am not convinced that this is the case. And even if that is the case, "there will always be someone in need who will accept the offer, with all its unfavorable conditions," people comment. And so it is. And now I am once again explaining to myself all the unfavorable ads for jobs with low wages and so on - there will always be people in need who would accept any conditions.
Other people write that this is just the beginning. That soon other companies will adopt this way of working and apply it en masse. Although the ad was soon removed from all sites. That this is only a hint of the things that will come our way very soon. Because we just allow it. People in need.

The same day, I saw an article on FB about how a newly graduated young man without any working experience said that he would not start a job for less than 2000 BGN/1000 EUR. Wow, what audacity!
On that day, there were more than 800 comments under the article, all of which were hidden/marked as not relevant. Because for the first time people have allowed themselves to say that this is not arrogance, but a completely normal point of view. Prices in Bulgaria are unreasonably high, and wages are unreasonably low. 1000 euros is really something - wow. Even me, a non-starter with experience, when I say in an interview that I wouldn't accept a salary below that amount anymore, it doesn't go well with the interviewer, so I no longer say what salary "I imagine I could get".

One person had shared the opinion that only in Bulgaria people mistakenly think that in order to live humanly and normally (not richly), you must be some specific and rare specialist. While people in Western Europe, he gave the example of Norway, where he apparently lives, very ordinary people have the opportunity to work a very ordinary job, the salary for which covers all their needs, leaves them with excess funds and lets them "live their boring lives in peace". While all of us here have to fight and be exceptional and unique, irreplaceable, endlessly productive and professors with two or more higher educations, two or more foreign languages...
The next day, the post was left with 1,400 comments, all hidden, except for one that was also negative. It is clear that this article was again propaganda to hammer the last nails into the coffin of our miserable life.

But honestly, I'm tired of trying to be extraordinary when I want to work some kind of ordinary and peaceful, decent job that my country will obviously never be able to provide.

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	Soul's Detour is a project started by me years ago when I had a blog about historical and not so popular tourist destinations in Eastern Belgium, West Germany and Luxembourg. Nowadays, this blog no longer exists, but I'm still here - passionate about architecture, art and mysteries and eager to share my discoveries and point of view with you.

Personally, I am a sensitive soul with a strong sense of justice.
Traveling and photography are my greatest passions.
Sounds trivial to you?
No, it's not trivial. Because I still love to travel to not so famous destinations.🗺️
Of course, the current situation does not allow me to do this, but I still find a way to satisfy my hunger for knowledge, new places, beauty and art.
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