Public Chronicle

If you are searching for a job and there is a definite idea and vision of what you want to do at a company or an organisation, then you have the expectation to get the very tasks which were written in the contract you had signed. 

Many of us are still being disappointed and then comes the surprise, like a freaky Jack out of a box. 

I just had one of the biggest shocks of my life by signing an assignment for pedagogic and PR work in an organisation (Name of the NGO will not be published) and got kicked out after a month with a comment  “ SORRY, THERE IS  NO CHEMISTRY BETWEEN US”. It is an expression in German “ Chemie stimmt nicht” like “We don’t match / we don’t go together”.

A decision, which has been made behind my back, without any warning.  

According to my own experience and also the experience of some of my friends in many NGOs it is accepted and it is normal to sit and do nothing and “produce” multipliers or get volunteers, who manage tasks, which the permanent employees do not “like” to deal with. The multipliers, trainees and volunteers are the victims of the sick system of employment in non governmental organisations and also in many companies.

I have felt this on my own skin many times. This treatment is counterproductive, humiliating and just ugly towards those people who do their best to get involved in the team and be a part of it. But still they are treated as the third class workers and have no real value for the “ big boss”.

I had the temporary contract and was going to work for four months but, alas, I was not even given the chance to continue my own ideas and projects. I signed a contract for a pedagogical and PR job but instead of that I got the tasks to keep the appointments for my manager, to work on all Sundays, be a bartender for the Sunday’s Cafe´ and in the end I was disposed of like garbage. 

The NGOs “feed themselves” from the grants which they get from the government or the house of resources  but unfortunately a lot of money gets “lost” or is not being spent on the real purposes. 

This treatment towards employees will never stop until the government pays attention to it and regularly controls the working atmosphere and conditions of the employees -volunteers who work for the NGOs.