Geneve, Mont Blanc, New experiencies

The people in France loose their cool too fast, a couple of experiences that i have noticed like when i took a trip to Geneve the lady that was in charge was rude to us, we tried to explained to her in English or Spanish she never took the time to helps us. Also the driver it yells to us because the luggage in my country we are completely different, we are more polite and we try to understand even if we don´t speak your language. In the other hand the percentage of great experiences and meeting people is greater, like when I go to eat near school my French is bad, but the persons that take the orders take their time or speak English and Spanish.   

Yesterday I was walking in Champs Elisses, I walked into a Mercedes Benz showroom what a great experience it was, I have not been in a store that sold clothes and many other things from the Mercedes brand. You find many different people from around the world it is awesome to see the streets crowed, you can listen to French, English, Spanish, Japanese, also to the Muslims are pretty good people, I talked to one of them yesterday it was a experience that taught a lot. 

Mont Blanc

Because in the news they showed to be so radical, and sometimes you can think about them as bad people, but every person is different. He told he had a different idea of Mexicans as lazy, drugs cartels, guns, this trip is helping me to learn more from another cultures. In the hostal that I live many jews come to the restaurants, in Puebla where I am from you hardly see or talk to jews. It is a cultural experience that I am learning every day.

Going to Geneva last weekend was pretty cool, a city that has more 150 banks that are private, going around the lake, also visiting old town, with my classmates, I remember my sister telling that they sold the ketchup packages, when I went to buy my food in McDonalds I ask for a couple of packages they were 20 cents of euro I got mad, how this could be possible, also it is more expensive than in France. After all I bought my mom her cow she asked for since she knew I was going to the trip, also I visited Mont Blanc it is a town for hicking in the mountain. It was ok for a few hours, but a would spent more time in Geneva.

Postal Office

Lake in Geneve

Another View from Geneva

Second Week at School

The second week of classes it has been about how France´s law is for the employee security, the process that a company needs to do if they want to fire an employee.  All the legal process that has to be followed so an employee can get fire, how expensive it is, also it caught my attention de cooling periods for both parties.

How many hours they work a week 35, all the holidays they have 11, also all the benefits they can get if they get fire two years of their salary, if you run a small, medium or large company the process of selection for a position it is very important, because it may cost a lot of money if you don’t make the correct selection of the personal.

The disciplinary are divided on 4 degrees:

o   Unjustified absences, refusal to follow order,

o   Repetition of above

o   Theft, revealing trade secrets, violation of internal policy

o   Damage to property, downloading viruses, theft of intellectual property

Steve is a great teacher he is an American citizen that has live in France for the last twelve years, the class is very simple for his experience in the field of the Human Resources, always asking what other themes we might want to explorer. In France the Unions have great power and influence for the companies, that the companies don’t touch the employees that are representatives of the union, also a few weeks ago the train union went on a strike because the government wanted to change the laws for their contract agreement. They have many benefits also they can retire at age 55 because the labor they do, the new retirement age for France is 62. Steve shows us a graphic that fewer employees are in an Union, it has been going down since the WWII.

Also the structure in France for HR is very important for the company, I didn’t have an idea how the structure and all the positions for the big companies, it is cheaper for small companies to hire outsourcing to do all that job.

HR Structure in France

·         Strategic

·         Organization and Administration

·         Development

·         HR Consulting

Also I am impress by law every company no matter the size has to invest on training:

·         Companies legally required to spend money on training

·         Companies are legally to produce a training plan

·         In some cases, companies are legally requires to allow time off for employees´ professional development

But it is good in paper, but when you have so much money an agency decides what programs are needed, this could be miss handle because they might have favorites companies to do the training. After all, the laws are for the protection of the employee, but what about the companies, persons that decide to invest their money, some changes are needed to be made in the French law.

HR Class with Steve

In Geneve

Today it was the last day of the class, the case of reading anonymous cv´s was great, I never guessed that they were girls. Also the information how a person even if it is fired can fired back, it went to last instance and got 115k even if they had proof of the bad job she did.

EIMI Paris Summer 2014

It is has been a great experience so far having classes al the EIMI, i felt like home they had a welcome party on Monday, they gave us the weekly programm, also Veronique has been extremely good to us. 

The programm  of European Law by Dr. Jean-Louis Burban has been great i have learn a lot from the EU, its political structure, history, how a country has to apply and have certain rules to be considered.

Dr. Burban is a french native that was in the European Parlamient, listenig to him all the experiencies he went through is is something special. He has welcome us in a friendly manner, always let  us to participate.

First Week at EIMI Paris

I arrived at Paris almost a week ago, i got to watch the soccer game Mexico vs Holland in a place with a lot of mexican i felt like home.

The culture is great in Paris, I have a visited the eiffel tower, the Senna River, Notre Dame, Arc of triumph is a experience that i will never forget. So much history on those monuments, people around the world come everyday.

When you come to the eiffel tower the variety of cultures, the africans that sells many things is like when your are in the subway in mexico city. 

The food is great from the variety of wines, cousines, pasta, pizza, home madre bread, it is awesome if you like to eat well.