Hello, I am currently working in Germany. I am 35 years old, I have been living here for 16 years. I have been in the company for 9 years. My boss and I get along quite well, I also like my job. The problem is in the salary. According to a study by me, I currently work for 25% less than what is offered for similar positions and experience in the market. I have the following options: 1) From the same employer, but for work in the Sofia office. The position is lower in the hierarchy, not to mention the salary. So far, no attempt on my part to negotiate for more money has helped. Salary: BGN 5,000 net. 2) Remaining the current position and salary in Germany. Salary: 6200 in BGN net 3) Offer from another company in Germany, salary 7350 in BGN net. The industry is different, but the position itself looks interesting. 4) I am currently a key employee in a very important project. I can try to blackmail my current boss to give me more money for the position in Sofia by showing him the offer of others. Like everyone, I am not replaceable, but at least in the short term there will be serious difficulties to replace me and the cost of postponing the project will be hundreds of thousands, much more than I want. Naturally, in this case I will spoil the good relationship and the chances for future increases will be 0, as well as for growth in the company. The situation: - I want to return to BG because of most social contacts, friends, family. If I had one here, I would not even think of returning to BG. - However, there are also things in BG that irritate me very much, e.g. Sofia is terribly dirty, noisy, everywhere simpletons, gypsies, etc. - I do not consider money the most important thing, but somehow I feel cheated and with a hurt ego, and this does not give me peace. In practice, the employer prefers to have almost double the costs in Germany (gross salary is much higher due to taxes and social security) than to offer me more in BG. And this because of the insane bureaucracy of various aunts in HR. I want only BGN 1,200 more, ie to keep my current net salary, which is 30% less gross anyway. - My current company is a prestigious inter. concern. The position in Sofia will be practically at the European headquarters, many international projects, etc. - The other company in Germany is smaller and less famous. However, I also know the future boss well there, the position is really interesting and challenging. The bad thing is that the possibility of social contacts there will be zero, as it is located in a small village away from big cities. - The cost of living: In BG I think that I can save no more than 1000 leva per month from accommodation. Food is practically equally expensive. The worst: In BG there is no legible health insurance and pension. And I have to buy a car to go to the office. - The office in Sofia is in an impossible place. Travel 90 minutes at least by various gypsy flights or by car on the traffic jams on the southern ring road. - Opportunity, however, for 2 days a week Home Office As you can see, many pros and cons that pull in different directions. I can't and can't make a decision, and time is pressing me. I know that everything is too subjective and individual. But I'm still interested to hear some other people's opinions. Which option would you choose thanks - The office in Sofia is in an impossible place. Travel 90 minutes at least by various gypsy flights or by car on the traffic jams on the southern ring road. - Opportunity, however, for 2 days a week Home Office As you can see, many pros and cons that pull in different directions. I can't and can't make a decision, and time is pressing me. I know that everything is too subjective and individual. But I'm still interested to hear some other people's opinions. Which option would you choose? thanks - The office in Sofia is in an impossible place. Travel 90 minutes at least by various gypsy flights or by car on the traffic jams on the southern ring road. - Opportunity, however, for 2 days a week Home Office As you can see, many pros and cons that pull in different directions. I can't and can't make a decision, and time is pressing me. I know that everything is too subjective and individual. But I'm still interested to hear some other people's opinions. Which option would you choose? thanks But I'm still interested to hear some other people's opinions. Which option would you choose? thanks But I'm still interested to hear some other people's opinions. Which option would you choose? thanks
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May I ask you what position you currently hold?
I don't know what you will do in Bulgaria, to ride in "gypsy" flights and to be among dirt, simpletons and gypsies (2 times). I have no idea what kind of leaven it is, but the use of public transport and street meetings with minorities is something that is very normal in today's globalizing world. I am glad that you still succeeded abroad, but the success in the material did not bring you personality development. I understand that you are a 55-year-old uncle Gosho from a sheepfold who moved 30 years ago from the village of Banitsa Vratsa, that you have not seen the world and that you have a simplified understanding of the world related to stereotypes and imposed propaganda clichés. A man who lived outside for a long time did not move an iota of Uncle Gosho
You know, dear, do what you want, but do not return to Bulgaria, sorry, "BG" to say, so you understand me! You are arrogant - noisy, dirty, gypsy, and you will hit us, don't, you will get dirty!
Let's start with the more global. You want to return to Bulgaria. If you accept the position, you can talk to your boss about money to move and set foot in Bulgaria. Your net salary in Germany is not bad after all. You are in the upper limit. But I don't think it's fair to show the offer you received. Go from the big to the smaller. Where do you want to live, what are the priorities. If the road doesn't work, you know, returning to Germany is the easiest. Write what you decided. An interesting saga.
Yes, you really are like Uncle Gosho, as they wrote to you above. He was going to blackmail his boss, to make competitive offers, to make grocery bills, he was noisy in Sofia, he was leading a big project, and he can't decide for himself where and for whom to work ... You sit down and talk face to face with your boss . If you're so cool, you get a raise. If you're not that cool and you're unhappy with the conditions, you're leaving.
Hello, I understand your dilemma, but when you think that you are expecting an opinion from visitors to a site on the Internet, and for such an important step in life, it seems frivolous to me. Do you want someone else to take responsibility for your decision or do you just brag?
If you do not support the position in Sofia, your boss will show the same proposal to a German and he will support (your number with the extortion). And it will be even more pleasant for me to work here in Sofia with him, because he will not consider me a dirty and noisy gypsy and I will not brag about what he saw "outside".
If you are going to pay for accommodation in Sofia, why would you pay for expensive accommodation in the center, instead of getting cheap accommodation near work? Wise sea ... the people said.
accept the other offer, but live in a bigger city
God forbid you ask anything on this site ... Author, your dilemma is interesting. Personally, I am of the opinion that not everything is money - if it is easier to fit in here, you have people who love you, you have a better chance to start a family - come. If you have a difference of BGN 1,000 in the accommodation, then your salary is the same as BGN 1,000 more, ie you currently earn BGN 200 more from your stay in Germany. Is the lack of social contacts worth it?
In what sphere and branch is the company and what position is it about? How can people in anonymous forums speak so abstractly and expect concrete answers.
It is the German cities that are the realm of dirt and gypsies on the streets, let alone compared to pretty Sofia. Keep in mind that when you talk such nonsense about just one bump, many people are brainwashed and begin to believe that it was "very clean" in Germany. And imagine their surprise finding beggars, skinheads, gypsies and dirt there as the most natural phenomena in the big cities.
Until 12 I watched German cities in streetview (Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden) and they are very far from gypsies and dirt and light years ahead of Getofia! Cleanliness, well-maintained green areas without a barrel and facades without a crack, perfectly painted, solid sidewalks and streets, without ads and posters posted indiscriminately, cities like a picture. Anyone can check! In Sofia, everything is falling apart and is under criticism, a city on a par with Dhaka, Manila, Phnom Penh, Jakarta, Yangon.