Comment: Why Romanians don’t have the team work culture

Working in Romania can sometimes be a tricky thing, and before moving into the main subject of this column, team work, let's start with the pre-employment period. Any successful candidate must fit within a standard portrait, which in many cases is carefully hidden in the employment advert. Why? Because the employers do their best not to break the rules and regulations and they cannot afford to be discovered as people who avoid employing: young people without any experience, mature people who have too much experience and can ask too many questions and demand high salaries, too old people who don’t have enthusiasm anymore, but who can have health problems, young women who can have too much prenatal and postnatal maternity leave, Romani people who are just plain discriminated against whatever their age, people with higher educational studies and expertise who should be paid very well or people of differing sexual orientation and/or religious persuasion to the majority, whom many Romanians appear to consider as something very strange and possibly dangerous.