Mane

[Home]   [ Past blogs ] [ Permalinks ] [ RSS ] [ Recent comments ] [ Books ] [ Blogs of note ]   check out the   Mane the Mean   swicki   at   eurekster.com A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days. ( Goethe ) April 2007   Sunday 07-04-01   Magnificent desolation   Buzz Aldrin Unemployed   Suddenly, I am unemployed. Something really strange happened on Friday. I was having a meeting with sorting machine suppliers when I was called to another meeting. I went there, found my boss, the HR-boss and the local ombudsman. They told me that the Finland Post Corporation (FPC) will not offer me permanent employment. Since my trial period would have ended only at 4pm, they were allowed to fire me with no reasons. I left the building at 1.25, took taxi home, and headed to the unemployment office, then to a bar, another bar, and still a few bars. Mostly those cheap bars, which the unemployed frequent. Got dru...

[Home]   [ Past blogs ] [ Permalinks ] [ RSS ] [ Recent comments ] [ Books ] [ Blogs of note ]   check out the   Mane the Mean   swicki   at   eurekster.com A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days. ( Goethe ) March 2007   Thursday 07-03-23   I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer.   Friedrich Hölderlin Meeting and minutes   Most meetings are not fast enough to capture my full attention. So, I need to have something else to do in addition to being present. The best thing I have found is to keep on-line meeting minutes during the meetings. Today, we had a meeting at work for 7 hours, on very interesting topics. I participated actively to the very technical discussion. I also wrote minutes, 9 pages of minutes, during to meeting, in wiki format. Not bad at all, it took some 50% of my attention. I also wrote some parts of project plans, emails, and re-organized parts of our documentation manag...