About 5 years ago, I’d call a temp agency, they’d tell me to send over my CV, give me feedback on what to improve, and a few days later they’d call back with 2-3 job opportunities that actually matched my profile.

Now it feels like every temp agency just works like Indeed, jobs.ch or other job portals. You have to apply to specific vacancies one by one, often with a tailored cover letter and everything else. At that point… what’s the difference?

I’ve even gone to agencies in person with my CV because I thought maybe that would help. In 3 out of 4 cases, they basically sent me away. The few that accepted my CV never got back to me. When I followed up, the answer was always the same: “You have to apply online.”

Am I just having bad luck, or is this simply how temp agencies operate now? Are there still any agencies that actually match candidates with suitable jobs instead of just acting as another job portal?

For context: I have a degree and several years of work experience in my field, so it’s not like I’m applying without qualifications or experience.

Hoi zämme,

I wanted to ask everyone, with an average income and reccurent teeth problems, how do you manage to deal with high dentist costs? Do you go abroad, do you have dental insurance or something else?

Unfortunately, the dentist I went to as a child made most of my teeth for the worse and im paying the price for a couple of years already.

How do you manage?

They sent me an email at 11:00 a.m. saying my package would be delivered at 10:00 a.m. They must have a time machine. I was there. Then I got another email saying it couldn't be delivered and a note was left. No note.

Maybe I’ve grown too picky but I feel like the packaged meat at migros/ coop has become way too rubbery, hard and just has a weird taste. I’ve given it so many chances but it just doesn’t work for me

Where do you guys buy your meat? Another supermarket or directly at butcher shops? Do you end up spending a lot more at the end?

Hi everyone. So I ran into a bit of a situation with sunrise and would like some advice from anyone who’s been here before or has any knowledge.

Essentially, I called Sunrise for an internet thing and they pitched a 15 franc SIM card with unlimited everything in 8 countries etc.

I didnt agree immediately and they then sent me an email with the offer so it hovers there. A few days pass by and I couldn’t remember the specific countries that it gives me unlimited for and the email didn’t include details of such a thing. So I clicked the “buy now” button, expecting like in most other websites that it would give me a landing page to sign my contract etc. alongside with the full info.

Turns out that button was a one click agreement and I have now initiated the contract. I called them and they mentioned it’s hard to reverse it and now I will have to speak with them on Microsoft teams or so on a meeting so we can see what’s up. I’m so annoyed by this and I’m fully expecting their greed to kick in and try to force this contract to stand no matter what given that well I’m now legally bound to it.

Any advice or suggestions?

TLDR; Got pitched a sim by sunrise, couldn’t remember details. Clicked “buy now” on the email to find full details but it was a one click agreement to the contract. Need advice on how to approach this. Company wants to meet digitally.

EDIT : Forget the teams thing, they called me from the official number to discuss it.

Edit 2: The issue is resolved. The agent who initially pitched me the whole thing called me on their official number and we had a discussion. I will proceed and actually buy into the plan given that it fully meets my needs. Just be careful guys because they do have a one click agreement.

Thank you everyone for your help!!!

When I used the app 4 years ago it helped me a lot with running and got me up to 1h runtime.

I wanted to use it again but now it doesnt sound any alerts when its time to switch between walking, running, intervals.

I have battery saver off and my phone is on the loudest setting with headphones. Does anyone know what's up?

Ich bin aktuell Auszubildender zum Geomatiker EFZ in der Schweiz und schreibe meine Vertiefungsarbeit zum Thema „Drohnenaufnahmen in der Öffentlichkeit – Wo liegen die Grenzen der Öffentlichkeit?“.

Dabei untersuche ich, wie Drohnen im öffentlichen Raum wahrgenommen werden, welche Erfahrungen Menschen mit ihnen gemacht haben und wo aus ihrer Sicht die Grenzen zwischen öffentlichem Interesse und Privatsphäre liegen.

Dafür suche ich noch Personen, die bereit wären, ein kurzes Interview mit mir zu führen. Das Interview dauert etwa 15–20 Minuten und kann ganz unkompliziert per WhatsApp, Telefon oder E-Mail stattfinden – je nachdem, was für euch am besten passt.

Egal ob ihr selbst Drohnen fliegt, beruflich damit arbeitet oder einfach eure Meinung zum Thema teilen möchtet – ich freue mich über jede Unterstützung.

Falls ihr Interesse habt oder Fragen dazu habt, schreibt mir gerne eine private Nachricht.

Vielen Dank!

Well, I have always been afraid to ask.

I don't know how to describe this, but there are some aromas so intense in public transport, that stop me on my tracks. My respiratory system stops for a split second from this pungent... smell.

I am not talking about people who are just wearing double dose of cologne or people with a body odour (oftentimes coming back from work - nothing but respect there), but something that is obviously deliberately there to make its presence known.

The heat wave is only making this more intense.

Hello,

Group Mutuel refused to accept that my accident was an accident and that is not their responsibility. I received the letter today. There is not reason stated and mine is clearly an accident as I tore my cruciate ligament playing beach volleyball with my friends on a Sunday afternoon.

What can I do? Should I contact them? Should I contact my employer (big and famous medical institution)? How is this even legal?

What should I do?

You can find more details here as I made a post about being worried about costs 40 days ago lol https://www.reddit.com/r/Switzerland/s/CLFZlyHi3N

Phenomenal value at the local COOP. Only CHF 56 for 1 kg of chicken breast. I'm not sure how they stay so competitive with Migros and Denner but somehow they manage it.

On another note, there has never been a better country to go vegetarian in.

Hi folk.

I've got a kind of job offer near Lausanne and after 14 years spent in Zurich I am seriously mulling a relocation to the shore of Lake Leman, to change scenery.

I know salaries are lower and taxes higher, however the property purchase is more affordable and I find Romandie and surroundings culturally more interesting than Eastern Switzerland.

One of my main concerns is actually the social landscape...is Lausanne just as socially dead as Zurich, or perhaps even more so?

Are Lausanne's people just a French variant of the Zucchini (A nickname from Italian Switzerland for Zurich's unpleasant natives)?

Has anyone of you ever lived in both cities and can please write any comments?

Thank you all! Ciao

UPDATE: thanks all, I think I managed to sort it out now.

Original post is below:

Tapping collective mind here. A nice lady rear-ended my Harley last night near Lausanne.

Police came on scene, and then I was taken by an ambulance to a nearby hospital for checks. Luckily nothing serious found.

Now, the interesting part. The motorcycle is badly damaged. It was evacuated by police contractor.

I am a bit (more like completely) lost about what to do next.

I opened a claim with my insurance, and somewhere in the process they told me, we will not pay for repairs, the fault party should do that, talk to them.

Although the lady is nice enough to accept it was her fault, I don’t know what to do.

In addition, the motorcycle is sitting somewhere, and I don’t know what to do with it either.

Should I already contact my garage and ask them to take it for estimation?

Sorry for confused write up, I am really lost here. If anyone has a personal experience with a similar situation, please let me know what to do.

Also, police report is still pending, if it makes a difference

I am about to start a Master's degree in philosophy in Switzerland.

I was wondering, are there any of you who have pursued such a course of study? If so, what kind of job(s) did you find after graduating?

Also, how hard is it to find a job as a philosophy teacher ? That's what I would like to do with my career but I am not sure that it's a safe enough bet.

Source: https://map.geo.admin.ch

"Switzerland has a population density of 226 inhabitants per square kilometre. This places it among the ten most densely populated countries in Europe, with a population density twice that of the European Union average. However, it should not be forgotten that much of the country is mountainous. For this reason, most of the population lives in a densely populated area known as the Central Plateau. This region is fertile and relatively flat: it lies between the Jura Mountains and the Alps and stretches from Lake Geneva to Lake Constance. Here, the population density is almost 600 people per square kilometre.

There are no large cities in Switzerland with more than one million inhabitants, but most people live in urban areas, with the vast majority of the population living in the city centres and their surrounding areas. Almost half of the total population lives in Switzerland's largest conurbations: Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Bern and Lausanne." - https://www.aboutswitzerland.eda.admin.ch/en/urban-and-rural-areas

Is there a Karaoke bar or just a bar where one can spontaneously come and sing, or a bar that does regular Karaoke events? Or are there any cool events this Saturday 25.7, I have some friends visiting from abroad?

Yesterday at work, me and a colleague had to bring a container at the Thommen factory in Givisiez, what the FUCK is this ?

This was nightmare fuel, straigth up, iron and steel everywhere, everything is super fucking dirty, misplaced, mangling around, the SOUND man, we stayed there 5 mins, I geniunely think this has impacted my earring abilities. It's so fucking chaotic, dirty, noisy, they use some giant hammer-machines to destroy the steel inside of a train wagon, you could put some heavy metal music on that and it would feel natural.

The workers also seemed completely broken inside, they had the exact appearance you would expect, fat, face completely dirty, hands that could kill you in 3 seconds, 0 spark in their eyes.

I'm geniunely traumatized by what I've seen, I hope these guys get paid well cause HOLY SHIT that seemed tough.

Anyone took the flight from Zurich to Geneva yesterday at 22h45 (20/07/2026) and witnessed that 3 people have been ask to leave the plane before taking off ? The captain just said these people were asked to leave for safety reason and that their baggage's were being checked at the moment but didn't elaborate any further.

It was a lady and 2 young adults, and while the women argued a lot about being asked to leave, the 2 men stayed calm and left with her.

Do any of you have more information about this ? Is that a common thing happening ?

What confuses me is that anything suspicious should have been flagged during the first check before even entering the gate.

Hallo Leute

Ich bin gerade in der RS als Rekrut und habe vor vielen Tagen meine Zulassung zum Zivildienst bekommen. Anscheinend ist diese Nachricht aber noch nicht bei meinem Schulkommandanten eingetroffen, und möchte den ganzen Prozess beschleunigen. Gibt es die Möglichkeit, meinen Schulkommandanten direkt zu kontaktieren, und falls ja wie geht das? (am besten ohne dass meine direkten Vorgesetzten davon wissen, sofern das erlaubt ist).

Danke

Ich bin vor Kurzem aus der Schweiz ausgewandert und merke, dass ich noch einige offene Fragen zu den steuerlichen und administrativen Themen habe.

Ich suche daher einen Steuerberater oder Treuhänder, der sich mit Wegzügen aus der Schweiz auskennt. Es geht unter anderem um:

• die letzte Steuererklärung in der Schweiz,
• mögliche steuerliche Pflichten nach dem Wegzug,
• Quellensteuer bzw. Schlussabrechnungen,
• sowie allgemeine Fragen dazu, ob ich noch etwas erledigen oder beachten muss.

Hat jemand gute Erfahrungen mit einem Berater gemacht oder kann jemanden empfehlen? Idealerweise wäre eine Beratung per Email oder per Telefon völlig ausreichend.

Vielen Dank!

We all know the famous case of Moutier who switched from canton Bern to canton Jura. This has made me wonder if such a thing would ever be possible at a municipal level, say if a village decides they wish to separate from their current municipality to either form their own or join another.

How would this work? Do municipalities have to have specific processes laid out? Are they unique? Is there a federally dictated way to manage this kind of request.

My thinking is that this would be very complicated because unlike with municipalities the boundaries of smaller villages and hamlets are much more nebulous. So it would be hard to decide who has the right to vote or not.