now it seems my company will liberally abstain from any payback of my education costs. given that i behave, do whatever they want from me - will see where this will end And last but not least: work the last months without holidays. i assume that my holidays will not be paid after my employment has ended. but hey it could be worse, if you embed with the mafia you usually can only quit by paying with your dear life. so i should be glad that in a few weeks i'm free again
in the meantime i have some difficulties with my future job... on one hand i have a job with a good selary, a lot traveling but also a lot of bureaucracy with the taxe returns and employment laws. good that we're part of the european union so we have
freedom of movement of people, goods, services and capital
...otherwise this would be difficult
it's not possible to work in one country and live in another without filling out a bunch of forms, consulting a lawyer and a tax advisor. yes, the eu makes all a lot easier. on the other hand i have a solid job within my country, which means less bureaucracy, but which is worse selaried. difficult situation.
"do you like door #1 where chaos and madness is waiting for you in return of a good selary, or do you choose door #2 where easy living but worse payment awaits you."
as you may have guessed 'cause of the title i'd like to quit my current job and find a new challenge in a new job. but if you're stuck with the wrong company it's not that easy as you might think.
i'm working with a big company which has sites all around the world and is a big fish in the sea of healthcare. we're reporting an revenue for the year 2007 of nearly 40 billion USD. yes, i admit the dollar ist not a good currancy these days but never the less it's about 30 billion EUR (sloppily converted).
now you may ask "why the hell would you like to quit?". good question, let me try to explain: last year we started an outsourcing project. first it seemed that we're only removed from the local reporting line to the global, but later on the managers seemed to have a brilliant idea and outsource the whole IT. after spending a horrible year with timelines which could not be kept and some mindbogging manager statements later i (and a lot of my colleagues) decided that we're not wanted anymore. too bad that the local IT at our site shrunk to a skeleton which is now fed with external consultants. i won't mention that these consultants cost a lot more than the cheap IT staff, no i won't!
right now the transformation phase has started and knowledge transfer should take place. therefore the new service providers should be here to take over the service but i can't find a single person. i assume that the cosmic radiation makes them invisible to our eyes?! the impact of non existent transformation and staff makes this whole outsourcing project a complete mess and the company clungs to the very last straw - this is where i'm coming into play.
you see this is not the best time for quitting the job and the bad exchange rate nowadays, the expensive consultants and the huge minds in management makes it necessary that our company needs every money it can possibly get.
now i'm here and i would like to quit but to do so i have to pay some money back for the education i got. it's absolutely reasonable that this company needs the money from me or my future employer (whis is a small company with a handfull of personnel)... don't you thinks so?
by checking my emails i just saw that i must be the devils advocat
i hit the magic number of sent emails
now something completely different (maybe some my.opera developers are reading this ) i know what is missing within the opera bookmark synchronisation!
... profiles ...
yes, wouldn't it be cool to have a profile "office" and a profile "home"? so it's not necessary to censor your private bookmarks for office use
and by the way: it would be more user friendly if you can delete one or more bookmarks (at my.opera) by checking a checkbox aside of the entry. it's quite a pain when you have to delete a lot of them at once.
but i still think that this is a really cool feature
i'm sorry that this blog was so abandoned the last few months. i had lots of work to do e.g. webdesign, network monitoring project, webdesign...
since july this year i attended the ccna, composite and iscw exam of the cisco certification path. now it's time to take the final test of the ccnp curriculum --> ONT. hope this will work out pls, keep your fingers crossed
My Opera
And last but not least: work the last months without holidays. i assume that my holidays will not be paid after my employment has ended. but hey it could be worse, if you embed with the mafia you usually can only quit by paying with your dear life. so i should be glad that in a few weeks i'm free again 
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