bureaucracy fail
2 Feb 2009 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneSo, the deal with my daycare position is this:
Boss Lady can't quite afford to add an additional full-time employee to her staff, but she kind of needs one Her problem is that the daycare is an international daycare - feeding into the International School in town, and conducted in English - but Finnish childcare laws are strict and don't allow her to hire a kindergarten teacher with certification from any country but Finland, even another country within the EU. This makes it nearly impossible to get a native speaker for the position. The most practical solution is to hire native speakers in the teaching assistant position, but since she has two almost wholly age-separated playgroups with four separate teachers, at a minimum she needs two of these native speaker assistants. Amber is the first one, and I would be the second. In the meanwhile, Boss Lady can't just hire me there until the new school year at a minimum, because she doesn't have the budget off hand. However, I'm new to the field, and thus eligible for Preparatory Training for Working Life where I'd be technically unemployed, and receive a salary from the state and not from the place where I'd be working.
So Boss Lady tells me I'll need my passport and work permit and any diplomas I might have, and that I need to be registered as an unemployed job-seeker and then see somebody for an appointment about setting the contract up. She warned me that she'd talked to some people with a not-so-good attitude and to try if I could get the one lady who made sense in a sea of badness, but Positive Attitude Lady wasn't in today - I saw her office shut and darkened when I was there, and the lady at the desk said that I can come back on March 6 with my papers, because they don't have any appointment slots available until then. o_O Are you fucking kidding me. The unemployment office doesn't have any appointments for SETTING UP EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS for ONE MONTH?
[Choose one: laugh, cry]
I called for Boss Lady and ended up venting to Chav Girl, and we're going to try phone call badgering from both ends, but honestly what the fucking fuck!
Meanwhile, they're having to hire a non-native-speaker substitute to fill my job. Yeah. Nice.
Boss Lady can't quite afford to add an additional full-time employee to her staff, but she kind of needs one Her problem is that the daycare is an international daycare - feeding into the International School in town, and conducted in English - but Finnish childcare laws are strict and don't allow her to hire a kindergarten teacher with certification from any country but Finland, even another country within the EU. This makes it nearly impossible to get a native speaker for the position. The most practical solution is to hire native speakers in the teaching assistant position, but since she has two almost wholly age-separated playgroups with four separate teachers, at a minimum she needs two of these native speaker assistants. Amber is the first one, and I would be the second. In the meanwhile, Boss Lady can't just hire me there until the new school year at a minimum, because she doesn't have the budget off hand. However, I'm new to the field, and thus eligible for Preparatory Training for Working Life where I'd be technically unemployed, and receive a salary from the state and not from the place where I'd be working.
So Boss Lady tells me I'll need my passport and work permit and any diplomas I might have, and that I need to be registered as an unemployed job-seeker and then see somebody for an appointment about setting the contract up. She warned me that she'd talked to some people with a not-so-good attitude and to try if I could get the one lady who made sense in a sea of badness, but Positive Attitude Lady wasn't in today - I saw her office shut and darkened when I was there, and the lady at the desk said that I can come back on March 6 with my papers, because they don't have any appointment slots available until then. o_O Are you fucking kidding me. The unemployment office doesn't have any appointments for SETTING UP EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS for ONE MONTH?
[Choose one: laugh, cry]
I called for Boss Lady and ended up venting to Chav Girl, and we're going to try phone call badgering from both ends, but honestly what the fucking fuck!
Meanwhile, they're having to hire a non-native-speaker substitute to fill my job. Yeah. Nice.
