yes, and nothing changed, the MEI initiative was amazingly misinformed propaganda which people "bought" and which also the fiasco ECOPOOP confirmed...

No. People believed in Blocher's lie according to which the MEI was compatible with the Bilaterals.

Hire single people. They work longer hours and don't have this family baggage and why hire a family guy when you can hire 4 single guys?

Because you don't want to be an unsocial a-hole?

Except that this is not the case - the people are truly fed up:

http://www.20min.ch/schweiz/news/sto...pfern-13581170

because then the swiss will start complaining about foreigners stealing their women

True, I hadn't considered that one :-)

If you don't want to be an unsocial a-hole, why go into HR in the first place?

another good point, I guess, albeit a bit cynical :-)

Dude, the last time I got a guy offended because I used a "we" instead of a "you". I suppose there must be a serious problem with pronouns in here. Whatever the reason, there exist a cure, it is called GRAMMAR.

Sometimes the expert cannot be found in CH or in a single state, so is worth the 'baggage'.

if the swiss wanted quotas then they would have voted pro ECOPOOP (you DO know what it was about (?) and that 75% which voted turned it down)...also your comment is quite exaggerated, "people are truly fed up"? not really

Yea it's time they restrict hiring French-German snobs like me. In other words: it's time for at least one Swiss teacher to take bilingualism seriously to get my job. Imagine, they couldn't find a real bilingual French-German teacher in the country, they had to get me over from Amsterdam. This is one of the plagues announcing the end of times.

ECOPOP was about more than just quotas, which is why it didn't pass. (Did YOU know that??)

It appears you didn't even bother reading the linked article. When 'a relative majority would opt for the quotas' it's no exaggeration to say the people are fed up.

Somehow this is not compatible with the multiple whining posts here about failures to "meet" Swiss ladies.

edit; Sorry, I meant not only your posts Phil

Ideal HR person; warm voice, cold heart

It's an online poll, no way to be sure respondents are honest about their own demographic info. Heck, it could even be somebody wrote a short algorithm and had it auto-click for half the responses, with random options for the demographic info.

So yes it is an exaggeration, the only thing you know with certainty is the number of responses.

Exactly, the same point is discussed in Tagesanzeiger today, look here (in German language).

I think that there is some truth in the above. However, in the US or UK many foreigners undermine the hard fought safeguards to workers and unions, as they will work without a license, insurance or bonding. Of course there is also always the problem of companies using foreign sweatshops, but do we really want to reintroduce European sweatshops or sweat labour?
I am not disputing the fact that many foreigners work according to the law and unions, however I find that foreigners even when on par or better than Swiss workers, are paid less, which is why we left. Even when foreign workers provide superior expertise and follow societal rules, they still get shafted and taken advantage of by the most reputable firms. The Swiss have an inherent sense of entitlement, deep in the psyche of each Swiss person is an indefatigable, nagging voice which tells them that they are naturally superior to non-Swiss. It is a bit like the British colonialist mentality. Some will choose to make a determined effort, especially when faced with the evidence, to override it, but it is always there.
So when a Swiss person is truly, open to considering that other non-Swiss may be at the same level as Swiss, then one must appreciate how much effort it has taken for a Swiss individual to do this.