The Turk turns out not to be as scary as my colleagues let met to believe. He has a funny accent and some weird habits but other than that he is ok. And he won’t be here for the next two weeks, so that’s a plus to :). About Boinxman's comment, the Turk is from Turkey, don't know yet about the getting Turked part :)
During our meeting he made it really clear that I should not expect my temporarily contract to be renewed after 31 January. A little background on that: They had one temporarily opening until 31 January 2005. But they hired two people. Me and K. So if they decide to keep someone it can be either me or K. The Turk tried to impress on me that K is my competition. But K and I decided to just do our job, show we are team players and we’ll see in January what will happen.
I hope you both can stay :)
Good luck! Sounds like the sensible thing to do. Maybe the Turk is a fan of cockfighting and would like some entertainment.