A diary based on my latest attempts to get a job; this time in Munich. I'm an engineering graduate (and chartered engineer) with more than 10 years' experience in IT. Over five of these years have been spent in team leading and project management roles both in the UK and abroad.

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Query

On Friday, rather fed up, I went to The Enemy (generic term for HR at any company) and asked them about my notice period.

Two months from the end of the current month.

As the cunning plan is to reduce my team from 11 (and really it should be 12) to five people, I see no way that this will work.

I have advised my new VP of IT with nice slides of what we can, or rather will struggle to, do. And what we won't be able to do at all.

Really what I should have done was create a slide with pictures of a horde of zombies and a nuclear explosion in the background. And have it titled "Best case scenario".