#belgië

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Les vitraux de la collégiale Saint-Denis à Liège

Photographie de Jean-Loup Deliège

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Raeren dans l'est de la Belgique

Dessin de Gérard Michel

[djweedstank]

wanneer doe ik zie mensen gebruiken “accent marks” on heel words dat heb het niet? sorry als mijn nederlands is slecht, ik heb alleen leren voor als één maand

worden als “jullie” als “júllie” en “ben” als “bén”

wanneer is het gespeld als dat????

[punishedsaints]

[roastthesadidiot]

Belgian athletics is still in the hands of greedy fucks who do absolutely everything to crush the ambitions of their athletes.

The following are the limits for the next European championships and next to it the limits Belgian athletics sets for their senior (sen) athletes.

All of those limits given by the Belgian federation are higher or sharper than what the championship standards are.

For Belgium

A fucking dot on the map with a grand total of 11 million people where the number of athletes is but a fraction of soccer players.

Many tears have been shed and words of frustration have been spoken of athletes who have performed the demanded international limits, yet aren't allowed to compete. Even with the limit of Belgian athletes allowed to compete, most of these spots aren't taken even with the lesser European limits.

Belgian athletics have come up with a plethora of weak excuses to justify shutting the door for these talented athletes who dream to perform at the highest level. From "preventing crushing disappointment in young athletes" to "We already give them chances in different international meetings".

But everyone knows why Belgian athletics really want to throw away the chances for their international athletes to perform at the highest level. Money. The story of Nafi Thiam is the best example of it all.

For the people who don't know anything about athletics, Nafi Thiam is a world class performer at the heptathlon with several world and olympic victories to her name. And the federation has treated her like absolute fucking garbage every step of the way. And all because of a shitty championship contract prioritising the sponsor contracts of the federation over any other sponsors of the athletes or they would be immediately retracted from the team, even if it were in a situation she couldn't do anything about. Belgian athletics had actively tried to prevent Nafi from entering her previous championship. But when Nafi was able to participate after a long battle, the federation fucked her over in so many ways for her preparation that she mentally caved in during the competition.

Those contracts only count on those high profile championships and they earn these athletes practically nothing for the time, dedication and money they invest for their sports. The contracts for the current top athletes that are given by the federations are minimum wage and only handed to people who had to achieve a ridiculously high qualification, like being final 8 during a world meeting. And the private sponsors don't tend to give that much more either since athletics isn't so much a visible sport.

We have a federation who deliberately takes away international opportunities so they wouldn't have to pay a cent to those who have trained their sport to perfection to achieve their dream to perform at the highest level. All of this is a choice to fuck over the opportunities of talented people.

[sapphicseymour]

*sees 1 k3 gif post*

my brain, immediately: was jij al ooit zo verliefd? helemaal verloren. was jij al ooit zo verliefd? tot over je oren. waaas jij al ooit zo verliefd? je hart binnenstebuiten! was jij al ooit zo verliefd? en niet meer te stuiten!

[roastthesadidiot]

So recently I tried to see if the company that oversees the social security funds of a certain toxic company could bring a halt to some illegal actions regarding worker social rights.

However, just like you'd expect, the answer was very underwhelming as their answer is "discuss it with HR".

The problem?

1) The suspicion that HR is allowing this to happen. And when you're personally trying to find these things out, you know you're getting fired over this.

2) The managing of these social insurance funds is all in blind trust with what your HR provides. There are no safety protocols to see if it's all going by the book or someone that looks into the information and questions if some of the decisions are made with written consent of the employee

This really is a system to protect toxic employers.

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Liège, la rue des Brasseurs, et la perspective vers Saint-Barthélémy.

Dessin de Gérard Michel