What will be my biggest problem coming to Ispra from the UK ?
A. Handling the three major administrative agencies: the JRC itself, the Scoula Europae and the Bank. You will spend most (not much; most) of your first 6 weeks shuffling paper forms provided by one of these agencies to be processed by another. You will not understand what they are for, and you will certainly not know if one of them is missing, or not signed, or does not have the appropriate additional paperwork to go with it. As a result, things you plan to do will just not happen because the paperwork has not been done (like getting paid, paying your rent, getting a pass to enter the site, getting your children to school etc. ). Within the JRC you will find the same problems between the security office, the social office (DG IX – who try to help but are limited in what they can do), Human Resources, the Amministrazione Foresteria and whatever Unit you are working in. If some office took responsibility for handling the interactions between these agencies and offices for new employees
