Contact

I made contact with the contact from LinkedIn and spoke with her about the position for which she was recruiting.

Although we had a nice, professional chat it was clear that I didn't have the experience in large, global consolidations programmes that she required - although she wondered who would.

The salary they were envisioning was €100k above what I am currently earning. Although that would be a rather nice amount, and I could actually do the work required, her customer wasn't the sort that could be convinced. Fair enough.

But it was good talking with her and, you never know, it may lead to something. It has done so in the past.

Quiet day

Last week I went to a meetup event and talked to a couple of people about using an IT Ronin team.

I got a few suggestions which I looked at over the weekend.

Also, over the weekend I correspondent to a couple of bites, one from Xing and one from Linkedin - agencies had seen my c.v. and wanted to contact me.

The Xing one was embarrassing as I hadn't seen the message before. Although I like Xing sometimes I miss messages.

Yesterday evening I suddenly started to feel ill and took today off work.

I might go in tomorrow where I reckon there is a 50:50 chance I will be told that my job is coming to an end (as they are outsourcing). They have to do it by tomorrow because the notice period is two months plus the start of the month. Plus if they don't do it tomorrow then I will be compensated for all 30 days of holiday I get for the year (German employment law). 

We'll see.

It's a bit cloudy

The company to whom we will most likely outsource our IT infrastructure services (of which I currently the head) were very surprised to hear that Amazon Web Services was a cloud provider.

One of my colleagues advised them that AWS are the largest cloud hosting provider in the world.

We can't get it out of their heads that there is more to public cloud offering than server virtualisation.

Yesterday a senior recruitment company contacted me on LinkedIn to see if I was interested in working for a major company based in Munich.

Yes.

IT Samurai to IT Ronin

In Munich there's a great team of IT-Samurai who have been betrayed by their ailing company and will soon be left to wander the business landscape as Ronin, looking for a new company to serve.

Though highly skilled individuals they are even more effective as a team - it would be a pity for this to be broken up and scattered by the wind.

But how to find a company that needs such a team in one go?

A bad day

Last night I didn't sleep very well.

This morning I sent messages to a few contacts on LinkedIn.

My help-desk manager later at work told me that I had looked glum all day.

This late afternoon I had to have a meeting with my teams (which includes the help desk manager) and tell them that some or even all of them would be outsourced.

Not my idea -  obviously.

I hope I handed it well, or at least not too badly.

I left work relatively early but I couldn't do anything useful (like job hunt) in the evening.

For some background, we have spent ages insourcing and then developing the teams beyond the storming stage. Then we get a new CITO who has the big fat idea of outsourcing. Just like that.