About riots in France
This is my first post in English… I hope I won’t do too many errors…
I do this because some good friends of mine, in Ireland, Sweden or Finland, are not quite ready yet to take a course of French at their local University just to read my website… what a pity, guys ! you miss something ;o)
Unfortunately, it would take quite long to translate the whole site again; sorry if you were interested in previous entries…
Just a small hint about the category : “coup de gueule” is kind of a critic on a hot topic in the news. This means that I usually write it with emotion, generally after reading a few articles about it.
This first post is “About riots in France”, and to start with, I would like to advise this article that sum up my feeling quite well : click here.
One can say: “yes, but it is quite unfair and subject to abuse if you can be fired up to 2 years after you sign your contract, without any reason. It is quite unsecure job then.” Yes, it’s true. But without this kind of contract, you don’t get a job at all… You don’t get experience, you don’t get anything, not even the government’s money for unemployment, since you never worked before. With it, you might be fired after 2 years, but then, at least, you have two years of experience ! And let’s say it happens twice to you. It can’t happen many times: this contract is reserved to young people up to 26 years old. By then, you can build you CV.
I feel quite concerned about it because I would have been happy to have such kind of contract 2 years ago. I just finished my degree in Computer Science, and was looking for a first experience. No company wanted me or my friends : no experience ! “we recruit people with at least two years of exp in our domain”. Yeah right, where am I supposed to get those two stupid first years ?
As a result, I found my very first real programing job 2 years and half after I got my degree. I’m very happy about my work of course (this is not the problem), but I’d like the recent graduated people to find one quicker than that !
I don’t say that this stuff is necessarily the magic and ultimate solution, but it is one that should be tried, since it could work, and anyway, nobody has a better idea…
Like I said to someone here: in France, people in the morning look at the sky, and if it is going to be a sunny day, they go for a strike. Looks like the weather must have been pretty good lately.