I’m not going to lie. I moved here for the salary, simple as that. I told myself I’d stay for a year or two and move back home with my newly earned savings. Then I realized that Luxembourg is a nice country, and I decided to stay for a little bit longer. Well, it’s been […]
Past Duck Race winners: where are they now?
Now that Duck Race season is here, you might be wondering what became of the previous years’ winners. Here are some of their stories. Ducky McDuckface (2002) The Duckster. Duckarooni. Ducky McDuckface had many nicknames, not all of them nice. Despite a performance which observers called “unimaginative” and compared to “a piece of plastic being […]
Ah, bless them: freelancers believe they should also benefit from indexation
Luxembourg’s most adorable pseudo members of the workforce have demonstrated yet again how preciously naive they are in real-life matters. Pretending to have permanent work contracts like adults, hundreds of baby-faced freelancers have said in very grown-up voices that they, too, deserve a little raise and that they should apply the 2.5 indexation to their […]
Non-smokers to get cigarette breaks ‘as long as they pretend to smoke’
A long-standing feud between smokers and non-smokers about the fairness of cigarette breaks at work has finally been resolved. On Wednesday, new smoking-on-the-job guidelines were released by the Ministry of Labor, Employment and the Social and Solidarity. These stipulate that in the interest of equality, non-smokers should get just as many cigarette breaks as smokers. […]
Most common expat superpowers
Contrary to the belief that most expats in Luxembourg are unassuming and maybe a little dull, many actually have amazing powers that are so super they qualify as, well, superpowers. Invisibility Perhaps it’s a reaction to an unfamiliar tradition or cultural practice, or maybe it’s just a feeling of generally being lost and confused. In […]
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