...or betrayed. This is how I feel at the moment.

Work sucks!!!

I'm not going to Bremen early January. In fact, I'm not even sure to go anymore. Since last Monday evening, I am on holiday and I'm not enjoying it at all. First, I got sick while I was packing and moving all my stuff out of my house. The day after, Airbus France phoned me to tell me I was not going to Bremen. This is obviously the thing that bothers me the most as I really counted on it. Besides, 2 months ago, they told me I will go but it turned out that they are cutting off the budget for the project in Germany. Well, it seems that there is only the need for a half-time position on the project over there. I am really disapointed since I met all the staff there and they were waiting for me. However the game is not over, believe me. I am not going to drop everything that easily. After the phone talk I had with my boss from Airbus France, I rang one of my German colleagues to find out what was happening. It was at that moment they told me that the work package was not defined yet. So, with Airbus bureaucracy no bloody work package means no budget allocated. Kind of obvious after all. The problem is that, initialy, my boss from Airbus France defined a trans-national work package which has unfortunately been rejected by his hierarchy. So what should be done now is defining a work package for this activity in Germany even though there is a need for a half time position.

The feedback I have from the German staff is very positive, so I hope they are going to make it! I will then have to get in touch with CIMPA GmbH and hopefully they will accept to contract me to Airbus GmbH. I have one month to make it happen. The countdown has started. In the meantime, I will have to train one of my colleagues here in Toulouse. This is one of the conditions they asked me to let me go.

So I am really fed up since for the coming month, I have no home and I am not even sure to go to Bremen in February if my candidature is rejected by CIMPA GmbH. Besides, after having trained someone in January, I have no clue about where I could end up if things are not working out! Maybe my Company will contract me on whatever project I would not like!!! So I will cross my fingers badly until the end of January and try to enjoy my homeless life style, squating at friends' places. If I look things from the good side and if things are working out, sooner or later, I will eventually work abroad half time on something I know quite well (the project I'm working on at the moment) and half time on something new (whatever it is, I'll take it)

My latest words will be: good luck to all of you, hard workers.

My big fear is not to go to Bremen as early as expected. Let me explain myself...

 

2 months ago, a colleague of mine from Airbus Germany resigned and I asked my boss to take over his position over there, in Bremen. As any other Engineer, contractually, his advance notice is 3 months, he's then going to leave the Company late december. So you see me coming... I expect to be there either late december or early january.

 

Of course, this guy is working the same way as me at Airbus. I mean he's an in situ subcontractor as I am. Moreover, we both have the same French boss from Airbus France. The "Airbus way" is to actually to work package an activity/work to subcontracted Companies.

 

What I want to say is that we are going into a "crucial" period for me as my "Airbus boss" will soon know whether he's going to get enough budget to keep a "work package" in Germany. My feeling is that he's not going to have any problem to get it... So the problem is not really here. It is more with my "Cimpa" boss... or with my "Coframi boss"...

 

Reminder: I am employed by Coframi, then Coframi subcontract me to Cimpa, which is an Airbus subsidiary, and eventually, Cimpa subcontract me to Airbus France!!!!

 

To sum-up, my "Airbus France" biss has no objections to "send me" to Bremen IF: