I have been told – in person, but not by an employer – that it’s against Dutch law to remain employed beyond one’s legal pension age in the Netherlands. So, you get fired at 67. It’s mandatory. That’s what I had been told.
However…
I just ran into an article that appears to contradict that…
Is this article riddled with misinformation or have I been misled by someone else? The latter is quite possible, but it wouldn’t have been on purpose.
There’s something else. I’ve had an email that referred to letters that I supposedly sent locally, to two parties. I didn’t. Is this a matter of speech in Dutch now? Did they mean “email”?
(By contrast, I received no response to a letter that I did send.)
Another local person responds to my emails as if she either hasn’t read them and is simply a horrible person or has gotten an email with something else in it than I actually wrote. (This REALLY doesn’t add up in any way, though. I need to follow up on that.)
Today, I had two unannounced visitors who also seemed to be misinformed along the same lines. (I’m verifying their legitimacy. Scammers are common here, apparently, and it may have been scammers.)
Speaking of which, don’t Dutch people do appointments at all anymore?
I’ve had similar issues with a local temp agency which was so discouraging that I gave up. In the end, I asked the woman to delete the CV she had for me. I couldn’t get the woman to make an appointment for me to stop by and talk about the job or any other jobs. All she did was send rather bizarre emails at pretty odd moments. It concerned a job in Amsterdam but it was being arranged by a temp agency at quite a distance from Amsterdam, here locally where I am NOW, which struck me as odd, too. I had one call about it, with some guy who behaved like a complete lunatic. Very very strange. Extremely out of line, too.
I recently contacted another company, about an urgent vacancy more or less in my original professional field, to do with soil analysis, that I had to write to twice only to get an email from someone’s personal address in the end. That’s less strange, but not very professional. It’s also not smart because I could be tomorrow’s client or a close friend of a potential client. I don’t think that I can recommend them.
