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Originally posted by stek View PostWas similar for me in Denmark, all work talk was in English, office chit chat all in Danish, made one feel a bit isolated.Comment
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Originally posted by m0n1k3r View PostI am in Sweden right now (just across the bridge from Denmark). Both work talk and office chit chat is in English.
Last week I sent off my c.v. for a job in Germany that said English speaking, but it was a German agent. They emailed me back with a form to fill out (grrrr) and said "please subscribe to the so-called Einwilligungserklärung. That means "informed constent" but how am I meant to subscribe to it? WTF?
Fortunately I understood the German version of the email text which said "Bitte unterschreiben Sie die Einwilligungserklärung". "Unterschreiben" means sign, so sign the declaration. Obviously they'd mistranslated it: unter - sub. Think of U-boats. Makes sense.
Having done that they've now asked me to rewrite my c.v. in German. I posted here about this a while back, and a few people had said they'd got by with an English version and I'd been told elsewhere that unless you were good at German you should stick to English.
The moral of the story is even professional Germans aren't as good at English as people think.Will work inside IR35. Or for food.Comment
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostContracting is getting harder here due to ANÜ/AÜG. Where I currently contract they let around 80 go when the law came in:
https://www.gulp.de/knowledge-base/1...pril-2017.html
Das neue Arbeitnehmerüberlassungsgesetz (AÜG) 2017 | Kanzlei Hasselbach
Thanks for the links, I will look into this.Comment
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Originally posted by maxm View PostKids were also born in Germany, so....Comment
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