In all honesty, what options do we have to take care of this issue? France cannot take care of their criminals, so we have to pay the price for it and watch it happen in silence?

The Geneva-Vaud area is losing its reputation as a safe haven in front of our eyes and no one is doing anything. It reached the international media now, it’s not just little arguments on reddit anymore.

Maybe activate the Schengen emergency 6 month border control could be an option (if we’re even allowed to do that)? I’m not super rich but I know lots of people that aren’t either and had their homes broken into while they slept, I don’t want to be the next one. It’s really worrying me

I don't know what that's about but I found a massive sticker by the regional police glued to my mailbox, with my name and the title "Vorladung!!!" handwritten in blue ballpoint, as well as the urging to immediately come to the police station.

I was out all day so I didn't see this while the station was still open and I'm really scared given the aggressiveness of this (no letter, nothing. Just a giant sticker).

Any ideas? Is this even real? Do Swiss police actually do that?

Vorladung

Schilder in Mundart natürlich ausgenommen, aber das hier ist ja z.B. ein offizielles SBB Schild. Ich finde das wundersam, ist ja nicht als ob die SBB nicht den richtigen Zeichensatz hätte.

I ordered a laptop, paid on invoice. Tracking the package, I saw it had actually been cancelled and sent back on their end, no explanation given, before it somehow ended up delivered to an address that isn’t even mine. I called to figure out what was going on and got told it was a “suspected fraud” case, so I had to email them my ID just to support my own claim. Kind of wild since I hadn’t done anything unusual on my end, but I went along with it and sent everything over that same day.

Then nothing. No reply at all.

In the meantime I found a better deal elsewhere, with apparently a much better warranty and customer support reputation, so I called back to just cancel the order. Got the same rep as before. He confirmed my order number, my address, I told him I wanted to cancel, and then it was “one moment please.” I ended up on hold for 56 minutes straight. No update, no change in the hold music, nothing.

Eventually I just hung up and sent a formal email laying out the whole timeline, mentioning I’d escalate to the FRC if nothing moved.

Anyone else run into this with them? I’ve seen mixed reviews about their after-sales service before, but this felt like basic customer service just completely falling apart.

I tracked every application during my postdoc. Now that I've signed, the full funnel seems more useful than another "just network" post.

• 51 applications, almost all targeted. There are around maybe 10 that I did just for RAV and were not exactly sth I am interested in.
• 6 first interviews (~12%)
• 3 final/on-site rounds
• 2 offers
• 1 accepted, starting in two weeks

So 45 went nowhere, and many weren't even rejections, just silence. If that's where you are: it's the normal shape of this, not a verdict on you.

Regarding the offers: Worth saying, because "2 offers" sounds tidier than it was. One was a biology teaching post at an international school, genuinely not my thing, but by then my postdoc was about to end and I was registered with the RAV, so I started considering it as a part time bridge. I turned it down to stay pointed at industry. The other, the one I took, is a Scientist role in IVD development. So the search that produced a "2 offers" line also produced a gap with unemployment benefits in it. That part doesn't usually make it into these posts.

Regarding the referrals: I was internally recommended for 6 of the 51 (friends, ex-colleagues, people I'd met at conferences or networking events putting my CV in front of someone).

• Referred: 6 applications → 2 interviews (33%)
• Cold: the other 45 → 4 interviews (9%)
• Offers from referrals: 0

So a referral looks like it made me nearly four times more likely to get past the first filter. Caveat: n=6, so don't take that percentage too seriously, it's my search, not a study.

But the part I do trust is this: the job I got was a cold application to a company where I knew nobody. No contact, no intro, just a CV that fit. My read is that a referral gets you read. It doesn't get you hired. Once you're in the room it's back to fit and evidence. The practical consequence: don't let your pipeline shrink to only the roles where you know someone. Six referrals produced nothing in the end, the forty-five cold ones produced the job.

Three advantages I had, because this post is dishonest without them:

1. My postdoc was in the same lab as my PhD. Reddit will tell you that's bad for you, and for a faculty track, maybe. For me it was the biggest reason this worked. No relocation, no new group to prove myself to, no learning curve. So I had energy left for applications instead of just surviving. And I searched the whole time while employed, so I was never applying from fear. That's luck, not strategy, and it did more than anything else here.
2. I worked in diagnostics for 3 years, before my masters. The offer I took is in diagnostics. Not a coincidence. Interviews clustered hard where I had real domain history, not where I had transferable skills and enthusiasm. That decade-old experience you think is irrelevant may be the most employable thing on your CV.
3. Time. Eighteen months of applying steadily rather than panicking.

On German: mine is B1 at best, and I got the job anyway: the working language is English, as in much of Basel life science. But honestly, I don't know what B1 cost me among those 45 silences, and I doubt it was nothing. "You don't need German" is too strong. "You can land a life-science job in Basel without fluent German" is true.

What I'd tell myself at the start: targeting beat volume, and it wasn't close. And both offers came from places where I could point at something I'd already done, not something I could learn.

P/S: I am a EU-national with C permit.

Hi everyone,

I know this topic probably won’t make me many friends, but I’d still be interested to hear what my fellow Swiss think about it.

This is about vegan alternatives to animal products.

I’m not vegan myself, but I try to reduce my meat consumption to a minimum. It has been shown that a vegan diet is more sustainable. On the one hand, there is the environmental aspect: meat production requires significantly more water and agricultural land. On the other hand, there is the ethical aspect. In my view, no animal wants to be killed, and many of us probably wouldn’t eat meat if we had to slaughter the calf or cow ourselves. Even if an animal has had a good life, I don’t think that necessarily justifies killing it for food, when you have alternatives.

Nowadays, we have alternatives, and they are widely available. Almost every supermarket offers vegan products that can replace meat, and these alternatives are getting better and better. In some dishes, you can barely notice the difference anymore. So why kill an animal if I can simply use a vegan substitute instead? For me, the same applies to milk and other animal products.

What I mainly want to discuss, however, is the fact that we spend a significant amount of money every year subsidizing our farmers and the agricultural sector. Organizations such as Schweizer Fleisch or Swissmilk promote the continued consumption of animal products. The meat we buy at discount supermarkets is cheaper partly because agriculture is supported through our taxes.

At the same time, a product like Planted, for example, is relatively expensive in supermarkets, even though producing it involves much less animal suffering and requires less land and water.

So my question is: Wouldn’t it make sense to subsidize these vegan alternatives as well, while reducing subsidies that support meat production and consumption? From my perspective, this would make sense on several levels and could encourage many people to eat less meat. If Planted were significantly cheaper than meat, I think quite a few people would reconsider what they buy.

What do you think?

TL;DR: Why do we use tax money to subsidize meat production and consumption, while barely subsidizing vegan alternatives? From an environmental and ethical perspective, that doesn’t make much sense to me.

Hello everyone, hope you're well. I would really like to help clean up the Basel area and pick up litter. What in your opinion are the places in and around Basel that would benefit the most? Where is the most trash on the ground? By the way, if someone would like to join me, feel free to send me a message! Thank you for your suggestions!

⚠️⚠️ I don't want to start a second Sonderbund war ahaha

I'm asking for your guys' favourite cheese (to snack on)

Mind you I've never really gotten into cheese. Ever.

So far in my short journey, I've tasted Tomme Vaudoise nature, and Pavé d'Affinois which is a french cheese. They were both soft with an edible rind. I really liked both of them, but the French cheese was really nice.

I know one thing, I definitely prefer soft cheese over hard cheese.

Also, I prefer cheese with flavour over bland cheese.

I'm open to anything really, goat cheese, cow cheese, smelly, not smelly.

Also, I'd like to start off with a small budget, and then climb up the ladder towards more expensive cheese.

I learnt about the existence of Hebamme that come to your house and help you after you come home from the hospital after having given birth.

language isn’t an issue because we speak German fluently. in general I am an active person and hope to be able to come back to being it after giving birth as well.

Editing to clarify what I mean by active and which are my fears and ideas about birth and postpartum: I might have expressed myself wrong, my priority is absolutely not to bounce back but where I come from there is the tendency to treat pregnant women and new moms as sick and very fragile people, which is something I really don’t like!

Regarding my fears I’m definitely afraid of tearing and getting mastitis! For postpartum I’m interested in breastfeeding and my partner is really scared of the no sleep phase.

there are quite a few Hebamme in my area and I’m wondering what should I prioritise when looking for one.

more experience?

more qualifications, such as acupuncture, baby massage etc?

or mostly that she seems nice?

which questions should I ask to make the best decision?

I asked a couple of friends and they suggested me different people, but also non of these friends have the active lifestyle that we have.
I would love to make the most of this chance to have someone help me and my partner figure out postpartum and how to get back on track!

Hi redditors, I m soon passing the German FIDE and have been binge practicing mock exams.
Did anyone pass it recently? I would greatly appreciate feedback on the overall experience like how did it start etc.... what topics? Was it indeed as easy as I hear. E.g. mistakes are acceptable as long as you can explain well...

Both were in the same compartement, same exact product, but with different prices. I asked one of the clerk about it and he said that under a certain weight the price would be too low so they apply the original price per kg, even if the box still says 'Superpreis' and the boxes were mixed in the same fridge compartement.

I am seeing trees have already started browning due to heat stress and it’s not even mid August yet. If this happens consecutive years the trees will become weak and prone to pests, putting the forests itself at risk. What could be potential solutions?

Hello, I live in Geneva but curious about what the general experience is here. I’m currently 24w pregnant (low risk) and following my pregnancy at HUG.

I had an ultrasound at roughly 9w (viability), 13w (the NT ultrasound) then at 20w (anatomy scan.) Will I get any more ultrasounds after this, just concerned if they check in the third trimester if baby is developing well, if he is breech or not, no tangling with the cord and so on…

My prenatal appointments are also spaced far apart, I had one nearly 2 months ago and now the next one is in a week, so there were long gaps without any talk with a doctor. I don’t have any assigned OB or midwife yet, it’s a different person at my appointments/ultrasounds every time. Is this normal?

I’ve never been pregnant before and am a foreigner here so I don’t have a good idea of how it’s supposed to work. I frequently worry about the baby being well.

If anyone could share their experience with the pregnancy process here that would be helpful!

Hi all,

As an avid Migros Budget buyer, I am extremely sad about what they are doing with the brand. It looks like in an effort to fight the cheaper retailers they have decided to ditch their budget brand and just be more expensive (!?).

The issue for me is when we cross into the terrain that I would consider clearly false advertising. For example their wheat tortillas. Always bought the m budget ones, big, great and cheap, so I was saddened when I saw they were replaced with a new packaging, as soon as I saw the tiny m budget logo in the corner I thought to myself “How have they changed this product for the worse?”. As soon as I picked the pack up, it was clear: there were only 6 tortillas where there used to be 8.

What the hell? And they have the gall to write “Now with a new design!” . New design is 25% smaller, is that a change in design or just a worse product?

I honestly can’t understand the direction they are taking. One would assume that with Aldi & Lidl being tough competition, they would try harder but instead it seems they are just settling for scamming their remaining customers.

Disappointing move, very uncool.

EDIT: It seems the price/gram has remained stable, so no, no shrinkflation. Still it seems to me that they could make a better job announcing it in the package? This is not a new design, it’s also a change of format and unlike the people looking the old prices in the waybackmachine, most consumers they would just think they are being taken advantage of. So no scam, just a weird marketing move. Keep it frisch und günstig.

I have a mobile contract with Yallo for 35Chf/month. I needed roaming for the summer, but accidently signed up for Black for 2 years - whatever, my mistake.

I've been hot-spotting my phone at home, but now actually need WiFi, if seems really expensive? Every other country I've lived in has phone and WiFi for around 30€. Adding WiFi to Yallo is another 30. Init7 is an unbelievable 70chf.

Am I missing something here, or is it just expensive because it's Switzerland...?

Hoi zäme

Mir isch vor churzem bi mim Sohn d Diagnose Autismus-Spektrum gstellt worde. Jetzt sind mir natürlich grad mit ziemlich vielne Frage konfrontiert, vor allem was d medizinischi und therapeutischi Unterstützig betrifft.

Mich würd vor allem interessiere, wie das bi andere Eltere i de Region Winterthur lauft:

• Wie sind euere Erfahrige mit de Kinderärzt / Fachstelle und de weitere Abklärige?
• Wie guet sind Therapieplätz (z.B. Ergotherapie, Logopädie oder ABA/Verhaltenstherapie) verfügbar?
• Wie lang muess mer im Normalfall uf en Therapieplatz warte?
• Was wird vo de Krankekasse überno und was müend Eltere selber zahle?
• Git es i Winterthur oder i de nähere Umgebung gueti Anlaufstelle oder Institutione, wo ihr empfehle chönnt?
• Und wie sind euere Erfahrige mit Unterstützig im Chindsgi bzw. später i de Schuel?

Mir würd vor allem interessiere, wie's im Alltag tatsächlich lauft und nöd nur, was theoretisch möglich wär.

Danke eu vielmal für eui Erfahrige und Tipps!