Karine, hi!
I am curious and hoping that you can help me in the near immediate future. I am having some serious problems with CAF. In fact, their incompetence is absolutely astonishing to me.
Well, rent is about to be due and it would be nice to have some sort of resolve with them before I pay anything else. I story is too detail for me to recount it here in this email. I'll tell you when we talk, ok?
So, will you be free to go the office, which is right around the corner from this apartment, sometime soon? Friday or Monday?
Regards,
Christopher
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2 February 2009 10:20
Hi!
I've just had your message.
I will be free on Thursday 5 February at 10 o clock.
If you like we can go straight away after my lessons. Let's meet at the main entrance at 10
See you
Karine
RESPONSE:
3 February 2009 20:38
Karine, hi!
Yes, I think it is useless to return at this point. I've been lead on for so long by CAF and their requests and they have seen too much of me in the past two weeks. As I have alluded to in my previous email, they have become very obstinate and, despite what I consider to be their unethical actions and my several demands for adequate explanation (to no avail), it seems that there is nothing to be done for the time being.
Well, I suppose I will take my punishment (which is what it feels like); bite the bullet; burn a French flag and move on!
See you soon!
Christopher
Samuel Goldwyn - "I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it."
RESPONSE:
5 February 2009 10:03
[Christopher]
What is given by the CAF keeps changing. It depends on the age of the person. It is the same with SNCF; you are not on the same footing as the people who are under 25 and who pay less.
I know French laws and rules are not that simple!
What is strange is the fact that they ask you to reimburse money that they din't give you. There must be a mistake somewhere. Let me know.
See you
Karine
I am aware that it is not fair to compare rent prices from different economically stratified areas, from different cities, let alone from different countries.
ReplyDeleteBUT, it has been said that I am already receiving a discounted rent (which has already apparently taken into account my take home pay -- but not for the assistants who have had no problems with CAF; I'm confused on this point!).
From my point of view, after having lived in Las Vegas for 2 years, the rent I pay in Lons-le-Saunier is comparable. According to my currency converter on 22 February 2009, 187 euros comes to about $240 US, which is slightly less than what I pay for a far better apartment in Las Vegas with two roommates (the same arrangement as I have in Lons). LONS is only a fraction of the size of Vegas and hence one might be led to think that rent prices might be lower. This is not the case; but, it is the case that if the state agency of CAF were to consider solely the merits of income -- and, in my case, my status as a travailleur temporaire (a temporary worker for the State) for the French Ministry of Education, I might not have the opportunity to share my experience as a French worker.
Let it also be known that Assistant's do not come to France to leech off of their state welfare (I have witnessed that I pay the same insurance premiums here -- in the form of the multitude of various obligatory and supplementary insurances -- as I do in the US), and that travel expenses and relocation expense are left on the shoulders of the individual assistant, which consume at least one full month of wages if not more; in my case, I will have paid two months of my wages to basic travel expenses -- just to arrive here at my post and to return from where I came.
That's the way the cookie crumbles.