14 Apr 2010 6:29 PM:

Dear Rixxy

Just read your email and totally sympathise with you.  The same happened to us.  We had a very successful property business and employed a Spanish girl on a permanent contract (no advice from our expensive lawyers on the pitfalls were given I might add!).  we paid her a good wage, all her petrol, all her lunches - every day, meals out, trip to London etc.  She sat on her fat behind with a face like a bag of spanners being totally useless - even when the property business went belly up a couple of years ago she did not have the decency to look for alternative employment like a normal person would do.  Offered her 3 months paid leave but OH NO!! - for all our kindness she sat there in our office all day whilst our so called lawyers totted up what she was owed for being totally useless.  Ended up paying her 8 months salary for less about 2 years employment (based on the pumped up salary of nearly 30k a year from the half commissions we gave her from OUR sales because we felt sorry for her)!  Bought her  a lovely leaving present (designer silver bracelet) which she took without even saying thank you!  Will never ever ever employ a person on a permanent contract in Spain ever again! The country in our opinion has not moved forward in the last few years since knobhead Mr Bean took over - in fact it has crawled to a standstill.  After many years living here paying IVA, Social Security etc. we are absolutely sick of this place - even the UK with its over crowding and stress seems like heaven at the moment - for us the Spanish dream has died.  The country is not helping employers like ourselves - its backward communist president is creating a country of non-creative security chasers with no ambition. Bitter...me?.....at the moment... yes very!  I wish you well for the future if you stay here - hard lesson learnt.  Good luck with everything Rixxy :)

 

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