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Good luck Raffy. We're pulling for you:smile:
I would like to buy a Tesla car, a solar farm, a new apartment in Rome and so on. This would be a positive change in my life.
Anyway today my situation is getting better. I talked to the Director General of ASI (Italian Space Agency) and I found out that in ASI they are going to help me to get a meeting with ESA to work out my situation.
Last Friday I have been told that in ASI there is a person in charge to work out my problem with ESA. Hope that now my situation will be solved quickly.
On Monday I will talk to the person in ASI who is in charge to work out my situation. Hope to work out the situation quickly to start a new life.
Today I talked to the person in ASI who is in charge to work out my situation. Now I hope that things will get better soon.
I have just spoken to the person in ASI who is in charge to work out my situation. He will try to arrange a meeting between me and ESA to work out my situation. The meeting (if ESA will accept to come to the meeting) will be kept in ASI in Rome or in ESA/ESRIN in Frascati.
Now let's cross the fingers and hope that everything will be ok soon.
Waiting for ASI to arrange a meeting with ESA and me. Worried but hopeful that the meeting will be arranged soon.
Didn't manage to contact the person in ASI who is in charge to arrange a meeting between ESA and me. Hope that next week I will get the news of the date of such a meeting.
It makes me wonder why you seem to be putting such an attractive achievable goal on hold whilst you seem to be willingly letting some other people be in charge of working out your situation (your words above).
If someone else other than you is in charge of working out your situation, then seemingly you are not in the drivers seat.
If you are not the driver, then you have no control of the journey or the destination.
Driving can be a chore and a responsibility, but as merely a passenger I would feel stranded and at the mercy of the drivers.
In my driving experience, my odds of reaching my destination are greatly improved if I map out route A, route B, route C and so on. If a particular road is clogged, closed or not to my liking, it helps a lot to keep my destination in sight and to take a favourite detour.
Surely you will make a positive change in your life, it is your life and you are in charge.
All the best.
That sounds quite nice, quite achievable, within a grasp of most people in the first world. Most people on TMC are lucky birth lottery winners and are in a position to get to such nice destination as you described.
All the best.
Keep hanging in there and you'll have a good chance of success, but don't overlook additional opportunities.
When I said to the Head of Personnel of ESA who handled my situation about the fact that my Vacancy Notice was missing in my Personal File (I also have the number of my Vacancy Notice) I said also if the ESA had hidden my Vacancy Notice, which is the document that is needed to write the Probationary Report, it meant that I had no fault for all the troubles that I had in ESA.
After that I said this the Head of Personnel answered: "Yes it's true. You have no fault. It's a problem of power." He also added that he wouldn't have repeated anymore to anybody what he said to me.
To this concern I would like to point out that the removal of a document like the Vacancy Notice from the Personal File of a Staff Member is a penal crime, and as the Head of Personnel of ESA said, is the evidence that I have no fault.
IMO also other penal crimes have committed against me when I worked for ESA.
Is there a reason you feel you were singled out, Raffy? Why would they have done this?
Did they not give a reason for terminating your employment.
So far all you've posted is about how the termination is wrongful and not done in a proper and lawful manor.
But surely they must have given you reasons? After all the ESA doesn't strike me as made up of stupid people?
The Probationary Report didn't contain any reason for the termination of appointment. The Head of the Section in the Probationary Report said that I did a good work. Only thing that he mentioned at the end of the report was that I had problems to adapting to the environment.
This is a diplomatic/subdued way of saying either "We are unhappy with your work" or "We are unhappy with they way you are as person or colleague" or a combination of both.
If you "did a good work" why would they fire you? And if they were in fact sorry to see you go (for example if the reason was funding cutbacks or something) don't you think they'd go out of their way to say how sorry they were that they had to let you go.
If ESA hided my Vacancy Notice it's evident that ESA didn't want to write my Probationary Report on the ground of my duties and responsabilities and of what I really did.
And, as the Head of ESA Personnel said, it's the evidence that I have no fault.
the ESA doesn't strike me as made up of stupid people?
This is a diplomatic/subdued way of saying either "We are unhappy with your work" or "We are unhappy with they way you are as person or colleague" or a combination of both.
If you "did a good work" why would they fire you? And if they were in fact sorry to see you go (for example if the reason was funding cutbacks or something) don't you think they'd go out of their way to say how sorry they were that they had to let you go.
Raffy, I am very sorry for the situation you are in. I feel with you. I also was once employed and the company felt like a 'jungle'.
Rather sooner than later I got out of this company and have never looked back or regretted (in my case the pay was phantastic, but that was it - I was young and needed the money :wink: ). What a waste of energy.
If I may offer you advice based on what I read here, find some place to use your talents where they are appreciated. Move on to a brighter future.
Johann
Large bureaucracies may be led and inhabited by people who perhaps are not stupid but who may act compromised in many ways. The most convincing example I can think of is the Australian Government, whose leaders say and do things that far surpass Onion stories.
Perhaps a large European bureaucracy could be a bit better, but I would be surprised if it were much better.
Raffy's posts do not mention what the actual problem is/was. After reading all the posts in this thread I still cannot understand why he was pushed out of the agency. Surely they must have given him some type of reason, either plainly or indirectly? Surely he must have his own thoughts about this? And if he doesn't have a clue as to why he was let go, or hasn't picked up on the reasons/signals given to him, perhaps that is the problem right there?