Some news

Last week my manager had a word with another contractor (who had joined on the same day) and me.


Apparently the company had screwed up with their internal recruitment process. They hadn’t completed it – and their policy is that they always exhaust internal sources before recruiting externally.

So, the manager had to give us notice that our contracts would be terminated on 14th April.

Oh Cuntly Cuntington (you’re not still reading this at work, are you?).

The manager stressed, however, that he thought it very unlikely that the contracts would be actually terminated. His procurement department had spent six months beforehand failing to find anyone internally (and I’m not surprised) so he strongly doubted that they would find anyone in one month. And that’s all he’s giving them. If they don’t get someone within March then he keeps us.

Good news for the readers of this blog, bad news for this blogger.

For a start, I can’t get a flat until the situation improves.

I’m not going to go all out job hunting. Well, after work (I’m contracted for a very un-German 45 hour-week and I do more than that) I don’t have time.

But I will do some below-the-line hunting and try to make use of openBC (a business networking tool – like LinkedIn – which is popular in Germany and is, in fact, a German company).