I first blogged this on our internal company blog. It sent my stats soaring and I have even made it to editors picks. So riding the wave of success, I have decided to also publish it here. This is how it started. I read this quote the other day from American coach John Wooden and it made…
2015 was a very memorable year for a lot of reasons. On a world stage we have an unprecedented number of refugees across the world, taking to small boats and risking everything to reach relative safety. Watching from the sidelines I have felt pretty helpless. My heart goes out to these people, and I have…
Maybe it is something to do with me getting older and my bosses getting younger. Maybe I want to be free to come in at 10 and leave at 4, or work from home now and then without having to tell anybody or to ask permission. As i get older and wiser in the ways…
As an accountant I always take a deep interest in reports of accounting scandals. The latest one to catch my eye is the case involving Toshiba which, according to reports, overstated its earnings by £780m over several years with the full knowledge of top management. Heads are already rolling with the chief executive and President…
I have been 7 weeks in my new job so far and here are a few random observations I have made about working with my Chinese colleagues 1. As a female, the Chinese females are friendlier to me than the male ones. Male Chinese tend to ignore me. Mind you, I do not take it…
You know those emails that come round from HR when someone new starts, with a stylised picture and a short description of who they are and who they will be reporting to? At my last company they were arriving every week it seemed, and iI for one, found it hard to keep up. I could…
Day 4 and I have a functioning laptop, plus a key for the coffee machine, the sun is shining every day and my life is my own with no housework to do in the evenings. Staying Airbnb for a month really is easy. Poor hubby gets to stay in Germany and finish the packing, and…
Although my job really starts on June 1, i had agreed to go in a day or 2 early, so that ended up as being yesterday. Of course there were no logins or computer available, so my new boss suggested I could review all the papers my predecessor had left. Bearing in mind my last…
So my last day with my current employer has passed. Leaving a job means that i had to do my filing, clean my desk, empty my drawers, and sort some cupboards. I was doing it on and off all week. This is a big deal for me. I hate filing and do it too infrequently.…
So today was day 1 of a five day train drivers strike here in Germany. This is the latest in a long period of strikes, which seems to be now a battle between 2 alpha males rather than about more pay. Fortunately there is still a train per hour for us commuters. Unfortunately they have…
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