Big sigh

This week I didn't apply for any jobs.

As I am still employed I want to find a great, inspiring company and then apply to work there, rather than just find a job.

So, I am racking my brain to think of potential companies.

There are quite a few in Munich but some of them require good German (and I had good German until I joined a German company which only spoke English).

I have to remind myself that I have found five jobs here which did not require any German. And many other non-German speakers have found work here.

How to demotivate your senior managers

Be:

• rude and insulting
• openly condescending

Don't:

• let them explain or question, cut them off if necessary
• listen or show them any respect

Do:

• come up with a strategy which is based on the obvious

But:

• do not be surprised when they tell HR that they have decided to leave the company specifically because of you

Two weeks ago I went to a startup seminar. One of the speakers co-founded a private company which eventually designed and built a rocket which docked with the ISS.

It rubbed in that I can do better things than work for a company where I am suddenly treated like a fucking idiot.

Fortunately the HR head did listen and treated me with respect. As did a (very senior) manager whose advice I asked beforehand. I think I handled it well: I told them I am going to find another job, why this has happened (using the above bullet points) but assured them that I would be as supportive as ever. There was, of course, the caveat that I wouldn't be able to put in so many hours as usual as I need to spend time job hunting.

The truth

My new boss told me that often people leave because of their managers.

He is so not wrong.

That's it

I 

Have

Had 

Enough

More people are leaving.

The second colleague who left (see post below) also, it turns out, went to work with our old CITO.

But even more people are leaving. An alarmingly large number.

The current CITO has retired. Or maybe has been retired. (Note to c-level staff: if you think we are idiots then you are the idiots).

His replacement ... I don't want to write about his replacement.

But I'll write more later.