Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraftanstellungsbürokratie
"Ich gelobe, Verfassung und Recht zu achten und meine Dienstobliegenheiten gewissenhaft und uneigennützig zu erfüllen."
Yesterday, I finally got to sign the contract for my job. Before being able to do so, however, I had to state that I would fulfill the obligations I would be taking on conscientiously and without considering my own gain. I was asked to go to someone's office and read out the above sentence aloud. Having done so, I got a stamp and signature on the paper, signed it myself, and went back to the secretary's office, where I actually got the contract.
Apart from the Gelöbnis, they also made me sign a paper saying that I would respect the constitution and gave me a paper specifying the Dienstpflichten für Angestellte nach dem Bundesangestelltentarifvertrag (I love German word-glueing). And an extract from the criminal code, which tells me what will happen to me if I were to steal secret documents or violate the confidentiality of the spoken word, and more such things.
And all this is just for a wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft. They even explicitly state somewhere that the Gelöbnis does not mean I'm a civil servant now. I wonder what they make those people do...
Maybe I'm just biased because of the informal nature of the proceedings at UC, but it all seems a little overdone to me, even when taking into account that my contract is officially with the Land Baden-Württemberg. It also stands in rather sharp contrast to the light way my professor deals with the whole thing. And all the people in the instute, by the way.
But, I don't mind, as long as I get my money. I just call it an interesting cultural experience, and try to tell myself that Germany really is different from Holland after all...:p
Yesterday, I finally got to sign the contract for my job. Before being able to do so, however, I had to state that I would fulfill the obligations I would be taking on conscientiously and without considering my own gain. I was asked to go to someone's office and read out the above sentence aloud. Having done so, I got a stamp and signature on the paper, signed it myself, and went back to the secretary's office, where I actually got the contract.
Apart from the Gelöbnis, they also made me sign a paper saying that I would respect the constitution and gave me a paper specifying the Dienstpflichten für Angestellte nach dem Bundesangestelltentarifvertrag (I love German word-glueing). And an extract from the criminal code, which tells me what will happen to me if I were to steal secret documents or violate the confidentiality of the spoken word, and more such things.
And all this is just for a wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft. They even explicitly state somewhere that the Gelöbnis does not mean I'm a civil servant now. I wonder what they make those people do...
Maybe I'm just biased because of the informal nature of the proceedings at UC, but it all seems a little overdone to me, even when taking into account that my contract is officially with the Land Baden-Württemberg. It also stands in rather sharp contrast to the light way my professor deals with the whole thing. And all the people in the instute, by the way.
But, I don't mind, as long as I get my money. I just call it an interesting cultural experience, and try to tell myself that Germany really is different from Holland after all...:p
posted by Olivier at 10:50 AM
1 Comments:
wow reading a sentence aloud, that's unsurprisinggermanburocracy for you. cheers to that! although the language may always be changing, and with that the culture and all those other things, it think germanburocracy will always be here to stay.
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