The Happy, Healthy Capitalists of Switzerland

[Barrister]

I mean happy to have you here Kaeso.

It just surprises me that someone would think we're interesting enough to follow our conversations, but then not want to be involved in them.

[Kaeso]

I mean happy to have you here Kaeso.

Thanks to all of you...

It just surprises me that someone would think we're interesting enough to follow our conversations, but then not want to be involved in them.

Actually, due to occupational hazard, I don't answer when I am not directly addressed. Because you don't intervene when you are intercepting communications.

[Barrister]

I mean happy to have you here Kaeso.

Thanks to all of you...

It just surprises me that someone would think we're interesting enough to follow our conversations, but then not want to be involved in them.

Actually, due to occupational hazard, I don't answer when I am not directly addressed. Because you don't intervene when you are intercepting communications.

Kaeso:

So what kind of work is it you do?

[Kaeso]

So what kind of work is it you do?

Now : Pen Pusher in a ministry.
Then : Criminal Intelligence Adviser, I had the responsibility the follow projects like the Crime Stoppers Hotline and the Interception of Communication (not operationally).

That was an attempt at humor. 

[Admiral Yi]

I'm sure your next joke six months from now will be much funnier. 

[Kaeso]

I'm sure your next joke six months from now will be much funnier. 

That's awfully a short deadline for me to come up with something remotely funny.  Swiss people are slow (ask the French).

[garbon]

Who the fuck are you?

Please don't kill me over the internet, I have six kids to feed....

I am your friendly Swiss lurker, dull and mostly silent.

16 posts in 10 years? What kind of psychopath are you?

Shoot, a member who has left (CdM) still has the total post lead. 

garbon is closing in though. 

[Habbaku]

Kaeso's laconic responses make me want to be Swiss even more. 

[Agelastus]

I'm sure your next joke six months from now will be much funnier. 

That's awfully a short deadline for me to come up with something remotely funny.  Swiss people are slow (ask the French).

[Caliga]

I interviewed a guy once who had been recruited to move to Switzerland from the US to do something in IT (forget what now) because at the time nobody in Switzerland could be found with that skill that wasn't already happily employed.

He loved it there and had hoped to stay permanently, but eventually the company found a Swiss national with that same skill and apparently was pressured to let him go, and then he was basically told to leave the country immediately.

[Hamilcar]

Who the fuck are you?

Please don't kill me over the internet, I have six kids to feed....

I am your friendly Swiss lurker, dull and mostly silent.

16 posts in 10 years? What kind of psychopath are you?

Shoot, a member who has left (CdM) still has the total post lead. 

garbon is closing in though. 

CdM left? What finally made him snap?

[Eddie Teach]

Pdh and Meri had a bad year.

[Duque de Bragança]

I'm sure your next joke six months from now will be much funnier. 

That's awfully a short deadline for me to come up with something remotely funny.  Swiss people are slow (ask the French).

Il n'y a pas le feu au lac, voyons !


PS : re-bienvenue (chez les fous ?)

[Kaeso]

I interviewed a guy once who had been recruited to move to Switzerland from the US to do something in IT (forget what now) because at the time nobody in Switzerland could be found with that skill that wasn't already happily employed.

He loved it there and had hoped to stay permanently, but eventually the company found a Swiss national with that same skill and apparently was pressured to let him go, and then he was basically told to leave the country immediately.

My take on that, the company probably made him come on a tourist visa (potentially a short term work permit or L) and then try to get him a permanent work permit or B (akin to the Green Card). Once they filled up all the forms, the Cantonal administration said "no" due to the yearly quota of out of EU/AELE workers being already reached. It was a major complain from companies based in Geneva, Basel and Zurich as they had to rush at the start of the year to get their "exotic" workers a permit while plenty of smaller cantons had still not give any in July. Cantons still hold a lot of leeway when it comes to the application of the regulations.

[Kaeso]

Il n'y a pas le feu au lac, voyons !


PS : re-bienvenue (chez les fous ?)

Merci, notre lenteur est proverbiale (bien que ce soit les Bernois qui ont cette distinction à l'interne)

I am neither very prolific on the vdf board, proving my laconicism isn't reserved to languish. I just don't have much to say without putting my foot in my mouth.