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| Its done.... On the grounds of staff cuts I will finish up at the end of May. Its a big relief because the stress was really getting to me. No I feel I can spend a couple of weeks relaxing, getting my strength back before really attacking this language.
The key in such negotiations is diplomacy. Rather than telling my boss he is a right w**ker and doesn't have a clue about the real world, I instead told him that with my existing German I did not believe I could be productive to the necessary level required by him. No blame, no accusations, we both get what we wanted.
My only problem is I feel I am abandoning my team; a really good bunch who worked really well together. But they understand and knew I didn't have any real choices. | |
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Wow Litespeed!! I think you made the right decision, very brave of you. In France people take voluntary redundancies all the time, even when they have another job lined up! They usually get a better payout than they would've done had they have been made redundant by their employer and after three months of quitting your job the social services offer you the dole which is usually 85% of your former salary, not bad eh? (you get best of both worlds) You get this for upto two years, by which time you've found a new job...HOWEVER be warned...you only get the dole in France under certain conditions - what are the conditions in Switzerland?