Mathilde Ramadier has signed his report with a true name and last name in the electronic journal Rue 89, of the group of Le Nouvel Observateur. He has boldly signed “Dans une start-up à Berlin, j’ai devouvert le cynisme absolu” (I have known absolute cynicism in a start-up company in Berlin), because he wants to proclaim that “Germany should not be an example, because there are no decent labour laws”. Wikipedia in
Spanish describes a start-up as: “It is a short-haul business, characterized by its risk/benefit profile and high capacity for growth (scalability). They are mostly companies of innovation, technology development, web design, web development and capital risks. They tend to start as creative business ideas, and then increase singularity through innovation and turn it into business.” What else are universities and programmes of all kinds that encourage young entrepreneurs?
Mathilde Ramadier (Southern France, 1987) has always liked to work with text and images. At the age of 25, he has studied graffiti for three years and has held a master's degree in philosophy. Among other things, to pay for his studies he has worked in small jobs: cleaners, waiters, journalists, teachers... Taking steps at the same time as a cartoonist.
Berlina arrived in Berlin in 2011, not for not having a job in France, with the aim of having better opportunities to develop the trade in the German capital. His professors recommended that he didn't have enough money to take on all three PhD courses.
Start working in black at a hostel in Berlin while presenting for more interesting job openings. They called him by a well-known art gallery and offered him a job, a graphic artist and an assistant, with EUR 1,500 a month, so that the mornings would allow him to improve German. Yes, for the first time a month of prueba.La first surprise is that you
are paid EUR 400 for
a free-lance contract: social security for the worker “costs between EUR 150 and 600 a month in Germany, if you are in good health”. The graphic designer is working intensively from 9:00 to 19:00 in the elaboration of a large dossier for a design museum in Berlin. They propose that you speak French, that you better spy on the competition museums; Mathild rejects it. They will ask you to introduce overtime without charging you; Mathild will refuse nuevo.Los
German cooperatives do not take out a single word so as not to lose their help by participating in the State’s job search programme. Mathilde will also be silent about the needs of EUR 400 miserable: in the contract it is written that the owner does not have to pay anything if the result he does not like, the worker is self-employed.

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After a month, Pradera becomes his young and charming owner. It's a pity you can't pay more than 1,500 of the 1,500 we promised you, up to 500. But you have to know that in Berlin you have a great career ahead of you, the good fortune of working in the culture and in a famous gallery, and the work, which many do not have. “I have replied that it is not acceptable for them to be met for so little money. He says cold: Then I realized that in Germany there is no minimum wage.” After leaving this company, Mathild
continues to look for better jobs, while at the same time spending four salaries on needs of all kinds. The artist was called in March 2013 from a start-up operating in the art market of Berlin. An invitation to interview with Skype, as although Mathilde is in Berlin it is not worth wasting time.
Two weeks later the new post will begin: “Country manager France”. Tasks: Complete a dossier in French and English with a list of all contemporary art collectors from France. Their behaviors, their collections, their psychology ... This start-up aims to create a database of collectors from around the world, unique in the world, to sell that information to galleries, artists, cultural institutions... Salary: EUR 950 gross per month, four days per week.
In addition to Mathilde, ten more people are hired, from India, China, Japan, Spain, England, the USA, Israel and Germany, for each of them to report on their country. Most of them are immigrants who have just left the military plane on which they were travelling in Berlin. Language, English. Based in the expensive district Mitte.El
director and founder is a newly created start-up that will be sold within six months of its launch. “I can imagine what has happened to their workers,” says Mathild. A 27-year-old who has left Harvard with a Ph.D., one of the heroes of the neighborhood that the media proudly call Silicon Allee, applauded by the entire Web 2.0, because thanks to him, unemployment in Berlin will be reduced by 12.3% compared to 6.9% of Alemania.Cada worker is on the street
without taking his nose off the computer that each has brought from his home. It's enough for someone to talk, the manager starts yelling at him.
After a few days, the novelty, each one points in the white table placed in the center of the large room the result obtained at the end of the day. The next morning the manager points to the successes of some and otros.Al the
end of the third week, the young design-philosopher thinks that it will soon take him to level, with a success of 87.3%. The boss will appear on a short visit, watch the table with the results and announce that the best of the week will receive the bonus for buying 100 euros on Amazon. The Chinese partner won.
All workers realize that more and more Chinese are going to be hired by their employer, they are experienced workers and accustomed to modesty. Xefa visits the workers separately to make sure everyone understands the message. Mathilde: “At my turn, I told him that I do what I can, but that competing with colleagues is not my style. He answered me ‘I don’t care’ [I don’t care]. I was nailed in my head. It’s my last day there.”
Mathilde Ramadier, who writes translated to Paris, does not want to generalise what has happened to him. “But I think I’ve seen enough to be very sad for my age, and I can say we live in disappointing times.”