RE: Something I called an experiment
As far as I could find out about this case, there were not very many of us who applied. It is even possible that we were only two, because the matter is very specific. And maybe then it's even worse, because when you're choosing between two people, you don't really have much of a choice, and it turns out that they made a mistake in their choice anyway.
But you are right that interviews are not one way, I can never shake the thought of the opposite. Perhaps because in a country with great competition for positions, high unemployment and distribution of good jobs among a narrow circle of relatives and acquaintances, the feeling is more specific. I have been in a situation where I said: I don't like this. And yet I have accepted the job with these same unfavorable conditions, because I had no choice, I had no alternative, there are simply not many alternatives.
That is what the employers count with. Someone will come, beg for a job and they have to accept the bad conditions out of need. It happened to me as I received my first salary slip they always did strange as I asked how or what. As I said this was not agreed the answer was: The positive thing is you van replace the director for a longer time.
So I said you give me 50% of what we agreed and we both signed for two work twice as much?
I went back to my office and called a jobcenter. They said they had one job for 3 weeks only as a receptiomist and it wouldn't pay much. I said I accepted it, packed my bag and left the company.
I worked not even 1 week and the university called me. I said I had two more weeks so I was not available. The answer was: If you want the job we wait 2 weeks.
I took a big risk but I am glad I did.
If I accept a job with bad conditions it is my choice but I do not like to be fooled.
In intetesting fact: someone at the university adviced to take me to replace the director with a burnout. 🤣
For sure that organization had a huge problem as I left.
A good weekend to you..
Oh my, that was something! Actually, shh don't say that out loud,🤫😅 employers in Bulgaria have not yet recognized this practice: to sign a contract for one salary and then pay another. I think they can always come up with an excuse or explanation later as to why they did it. Even in front of the authorities.
Another thing happened to me here: you go to an interview, agree on one thing, and then, when you have already left the previous job, you are forced to sign a contract with different conditions and salary, different from the agreed. People accept... because they are left with no other choice in this situation.
You're right that one should stand up for one's rights, but I think that's exactly why I'm currently unemployed. I've already turned down several unfavorable offers, and I was fired from my previous job for being open about why things weren't working. This is not good for me at all now.😂
Things have turned out very well for you after the incredible risk you took and I congratulate you on what you have achieved by standing up for your rights! But maybe that doesn't work for everyone, I don't know. Or it works with a delay - I hope that's it!
Have a great weekend you too!😊
I can tell you those contract tricks happen in the Netherlands and Germany as well. I have those experiences and so have my children. The youngest is tricked in by a hotel in NL and last year ten times worse in Germany. Thankfully, for her Germany was only a few months (3 very bad ones close to killing someone and depressions) and now it is 6 in the Netherlands. Hard to believe but it can be way worse like a classmate experiences right now in Austria!
It's abusive and no way I would let my child work under those circumstances I would drive over and pull some ears.
Right now my daughter runs a hotel as a student for 2 euro per hour. Officially, they should pay her way more + 250 euros to travel to the country and back. The should give her 3 meals per day and a room for the time she stays, 2 free days per week and 2 extra per month... 😐
What shall I say? Shoot the manager? From the moment the talks started we are 4 managers later and no one knows what is said, about a contract and so on and yes, they get away with it.
At least my daughter learns fast. Good to know the tricks if the real job starts in a few years.
P. S. The pressure for my daughter is the school forcing to work.. But in the ice saloon she would earn more and there wouldn't be as much stress. Bad is of course they have no vacation it is school or working so those with vacation are teachers?
In the end everything works out fine a plus of being at work is that employerd don't see you as a lazy type.
Are you bulgarian? It's years ago I l've bern there. I loved it.
A great Sunday
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You must be talking about the working conditions of the students in Western Europe, I am not aware of them, I know that they are very specific, different from the working conditions of other people. Still, this hourly rate is very low, that sounds pretty amazing to me.
Of course, it is much easier to be scammed abroad as a foreigner. I'm not saying it isn't. I'm not saying that if I go to Western Europe everything will be smooth sailing and things will be fixed with a magic wand. They probably won't get better and again there will be people who will try to scam me at any cost. And that's insulting. But for me, the most insulting thing is not being able to find career fulfillment in my own country.
By the way, I also have experience with employers of different nationalities here and abroad. What many of my acquaintances also claim is that Austrians lead the ranking for a bad employer. Such are the Czechs. Sometimes the Germans too.
I'm Bulgarian, yes. It's strange for me to even say it, because I don't have much in common with this country, I don't feel it at all. As with any tourist destination, there is much to see, but for life… 🤷♀️As we like to say, when you have money, any place is good to live.
Have a wonderful new week!🏵️💌🌸
I feel like you. I was born in the Netherlands but I see that more as a coincidence. My looks are not Dutch (blond) so discrimination it was. There are a lot of things we only see abroad through the eyes of a tourist and if in our own country we are lucky we easily believe everyone is. It's strange how our brain works.
I agree with you that any place is good if the money is present (even the own country because we can buy it LOL)
I never had good experiences in Austria. They discrimate and the drivers are crazy they try to push you off the road and once a truckdriver followed me through the mountains because according to him I drove not fast enough and he tried to push me off the...
Also if I cross the border I should always show my ID, no idea where those open borders are but they don't exist for me
Once I arrived at the airport Schiphol with two of my children and at passport control they said I should prove they were mine and show their birth certificate (seriously I take a plane if I kidnap blond children in Africa?
The only kind people in Austria I met were the owners of an Italian restaurant. How sad is that? It's good to know the stories about the Austrians are not made up. I remember how they years ago still guarded the borders with guns, no way we could do that.
Perhaps we are souls born in the wrong country and we have to learn something (injustice). I will never sing the anthem (the text is dumb) or wave with a flag it makes me feel uncomfortable and I don't see any point in doing such a thing for a country that never liked me.
If it comes to that it's good to be an adult, at least that's how I feel it. A bit of heaven inside the own walls and shut the world outside.
I don't believe my children have the idea they will make a career and neither did I. I also don't care. We have plenty of hobbies and things we like to do so the job we have is only meant for the basic costs of living and we can share them together.
I truly hope you find some fulfillment in what you undertake. I know out of experience and so does the youngest now that even if the money is not enough a few good colleagues make a huge difference. I am happy she is not depressed now and finds her way. Last year I had to travel many times over to Germany to help her. That was quite a burden not forget to mention the high costs.
A wonderful week to you and thank you for the good talk.
TEAM 5
Thank you, you are fast I just hit the post botton.
A great Sunday team 5.