Bad feelings

[tosca]

My husband works for Airbus in Toulouse.  There are hundreds of British, German and Spanish families in Toulouse working on various projects and in the eight years we have been here we have we have never experienced any bad feeling towards us.  I think the French understand that Airbus is a partnership between the different coutries and French jobs aren't being taken by foreign workers they are doing their own part of the programme but in France!

The employees having trouble within Airbus at the moment are the Germans.  Last year an emergency plan was put in place to safegaurd the future of Airbus in these difficult times.  Each country within Airbus had to make radical cutbacks which involved sites being closed down and major job losses.  My understanding is that while England, France and Spain have carried out the closures required Germany has not which has caused a lot of bad feeling amongst the manual workers towards their German colleagues. 

Airbus owns the International School of Toulouse, it was opened so that English speaking Airbus workers could be more mobile.There are a lot of English families in the area that tend to stick together and not get very involved in the French community but their reasons for moving here aren't the same as the average English family living in France.  You also get many families who choose to put their children into French schools and become very integrated in the local community.

I think on the whole the Toulouse area welcomes the foreign Airbus employees with open arms. 

 

[franc o file]

Plod, Did you mean i have upset another forum member? because i can t imagine how.

Thanks for all the info, will have a sit down a nd read thru it all wheni have time

[cooperlola]

[quote user="franc o file"]

Plod, Did you mean i have upset another forum member? because i can t imagine how.

[/quote]I think he means a chap who is easily upset - but have no fear - he can give as good as he gets and we all love the old grump really![:D][Www]

[woolybananasbrother]

It may be the forum member in question has stopped posting here though he may hover, so dont worry too much.

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speak French - never mind the grammar - but 'communicate' - same for integration thread-

by the way why can't I write  c U l   on this site without being ***   but arsed goes through no prob?

[Phil & Pat]

American sensibilities, they don't know what arsed means.

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it took me ages to learn that the expression isn't ' I can't be ASKED' - very embarrassing when the 'penny dropped' (kids in my class explained, when I used the expression in the middle of a lesson!)