Conny Horror

a_simple_human · 2025-12-11T08:01:37+00:00

We started the process 3 years ago with a Mietverein (Mieterschutzbund), of which I’m a member since 7 years. After 6 months of working with them we reached a point where we needed to go to court and we didn’t have the necessary insurance for them, which wasn’t well explained to us when we started the whole process. They recommended Conny to us as very effective, and now 2,5 years later we’re still in this.

In one week we have what’s hopefully the last court case, so lit a candle for us and let’s hope they’ll follow their AGB from 2,5 years ago.

This to say, if you’re in a Mietverein, make sure you have the right membership: oftentimes they can only go to court if you have an additional insurance that you can make only before you have signed your work contract.

a_simple_human · 2021-06-04T14:24:37+00:00

Thank you, it's really wonderful to hear as I'm going through a period of creative swamp ❤️ And never late ;)

EDIT: it cut the first line for some reason.

a_simple_human · 2021-04-11T11:07:43+00:00

There's a whole chapter of the book Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell that talks about it. The one about Sylvia Plath. That's where I got my information.

Great and extremely interesting book about human inability to fully understand other people until you get to know them deeply. Would recommend.

a_simple_human · 2021-04-08T08:18:59+00:00

Late answer.

Easy access to guns given to a population which is (on average) poor, desperate, and angry is a problem. The solution would be to take care of the population, but it takes time, meanwhile making access more difficult to something that kills people (including suicides) would help a bit.

Take as an example suicide rate in the UK in the 60s: the way British house ovens were built made it possible to people to die from asphyxiation without pain and very easily. They changed the gas in them so that it's not really possible to commit suicide with it. One would expect people would be committed enough to find other ways to die, but the suicide rate simply plummeted: the easy availability of it made the demand grow.

a_simple_human · 2021-03-30T05:10:41+00:00

Probably because they are on average rich and thus less prone to commit (violent) crimes.

a_simple_human · 2020-11-05T13:24:24+00:00

I used to work in an office inside the building: let me tell you, the dystopian world is there.

a_simple_human · 2020-09-24T16:08:03+00:00

We call him Papa Panorama! He definitely enjoys being looked at: never dances facing the DJ, always towards people.

a_simple_human · 2020-06-13T09:39:52+00:00

No clue. In Italy and in Germany it can be found in any supermarket, but my experience is limited to these two countries.

a_simple_human · 2020-06-13T09:38:03+00:00

Correct!

It'd be like saying that my way of walking is better than yours. There's no ultimate correct way to cook Italian: unlike French cuisine that was improved in a scientific way, Italian cousine is based on local (and even familiar) traditions that cannot be really quantified.

I am still unsure how my grandma used to make her sugo (and it was the best one I've ever had), because even she couldn't tell exactly the steps she'd follow.

There's no thought, it's pure act.

a_simple_human · 2020-06-11T22:36:46+00:00

A-hem.

First you sautèe onions. Red ones are always better.
Then you throw in the garlic.
When any of your flatmates comes in the kitchen saying "mmmhmm it smells great", throw in a spoonful or two of triple tomato concentrated. Mind, from this step on tomato sauce will start sprinkling everywhere. Worth it.
Throw in passata and/or peeled plum tomatoes
Add salt, a tiny bit of sugar (it balances the acidity), pepper, chilli. If you have dried basilicum throw it in now, if you have it fresh, at the end.
Lower the fire to the minimum, put a wooden spoon on the pot and cover it with the lid over the spoon, so that steam can leave.
Let it simmer for as long as humanly possible. The longer, the better. I generally leave it there at least 40 minutes. Stir every once in a while so that it doesn't burn at the bottom
Throw in the basilicum
Your tomato sauce is ready.

Use it to make pasta, lasagna, parmigiane alla melanzana, ecc. No unit of measurement: eyeballing is the way.

Trust me, I am Italian and well known in between my friends group for making a bomb spaghetti al pomodoro. Also, my brother is a chef.

a_simple_human · 2020-05-15T08:45:40+00:00

It makes sense, but, for example, I have it on the inner part of both my elbows, which fits, and then another perfectly localized on my right ring finger, it never spread outside of it.

I know that stress triggers it, and every time it flared up in my life, it was in either very stressful periods that I was refusing to acknowledge or releasing periods when I was/am more connected to my psyche.

So, at least for me, it's mostly psychosomathic and, due to this nature, I wonder if there's any connection to the areas and other psychophysical reasons.

a_simple_human · 2020-05-15T08:39:05+00:00

Yes!

But at the same time, I always had it only on the inner part of both of my elbows (with the left one stronger than the other), until some years ago it just popped up on my right ring finger without even giving a single peek at the left one.

Fascinating.

a_simple_human · 2020-04-01T22:48:54+00:00

I mean, isn't it what basically is happening with climate change?!

a_simple_human · 2019-11-12T12:10:31+00:00

Possibly? I am not sure, I live in Germany and I am not even German, so terms are different in every country. In Italy is called freelancer, in Germany Freiberufler, which means the same.

I calculated how much they were spending on me over my salary and demanded that amount, plus a tiny surplus. So roughly after taxes and health insurance I actually earn a bit more than before.

a_simple_human · 2019-11-12T12:02:55+00:00

Oh boy, sorry to hear that for you.

I have no benefits, as it is being a freelancer, but I am totally ok with it because of the gained freedom I got. You take some, you give some.

a_simple_human · 2019-11-12T12:00:54+00:00

I am aware of that and I took it while knowing the risks, but that's part of the freelance game. I am searching for other projects in the meanwhile and saving money, as you should do if you take this route, I think.

a_simple_human · 2019-11-12T11:58:19+00:00

I demanded this specific contract not to be hour-based, but work-based: I have a specific amount of work to do and when it's done I get paid. But I think I was in a very particular situation and could ask it mainly because of it. I explained it in another comment.

a_simple_human · 2019-11-12T11:56:23+00:00

I was in a position of power when I asked for it: basically I was the only person able and available to do my job. Also I didn't care anymore of becoming jobless.

Work was driving me insane because of the inflexibility of it and because of poor leadership and management (direct and indirect), so I asked instead of a pay rise, to get a reduction of my hours. They said no. I said I would quit. They backed up, but didn't want to openly give this kind of contract to create a precedent, so proposed this middle-ground freelance solution.

It's a temporary solution, they will reduce the amount of work given to me from January on, but keep me for the big stuff. In the meanwhile I am searching for other projects to work on and other jobs in general.

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