On coming monday I'm finally finishing up my project at a company called CIZ (www.ciz.nl). It has been a real experience for me, the last two weeks mostly negative.
But I'm glad to have experienced it, it does make me wiser and maybe in the future more protective of my capabilities. Maybe for my readers, if I have any, the last sentence doesn't really make any sense, but I will try to explain it by telling what happened since 22 march, the day I came to work at the CIZ.
The first few weeks weren't that awful, I had nice collegueas that showed how to work and what to do. Nice ladies, not beautiful ones, but very nice and socially concerning about each other. Social lives were often the topic of conversation at the coffeetable. I got to know them quite rapidly, because I like coffee, so whenever I had the chance to drink it, I took it and listened to their stories about children, grandchildren and so on.
But then I had to leave for a week to finish up a project that I had worked for in the beginning of the year. We just needed a week to tie up lose ends. My manager told me not to say anything to the leaders at CIZ, the office will do so. So I went, said nothing and left my collegueas with big questionmarks above their heads. After a few days being away, I got the message that I have to return immediately otherwise I didn't have to bother coming back at all. The leaders at CIZ threatened to withdraw every person from my agency if I didn't came back. So I went back at the orders of my manager only to find out that they didn't really needed my help. After only two weeks of being back, the leaders at CIZ thought it would be nice for me to do some archive-work. In simpler words, simple, and shitty, archive filing work. Removing 2007 applications from the files and make it into a new file. They thought within 2 weeks I would have been done with their whole archive of 2005, 2006 and 2007. After the third day, they realised it wasn't possible, so they counted how many days it would actually cost. Guess what, it is well over 10 days. Even if you let the work be done by two people. Luckily for my sanity I had a few days off and yesterday I got the great news that after coming monday I won't have to come back, even if they get down on their knees and beg me to come back.
Because my capabilities are not really suitable to do such a mindnumbing work. File after file have passed through my hands the last couple of weeks and all brain activity has ceased to function normally. I have to write on a yellow little post-it to remind my self to take a break now and then, to ease my eyes and hands. So hopefully my readers, if the ones I have, haven't abonded me yet, get a small idea of how happy I am that I'm leaving this company. Hopefully never to return again.
Next week I will work for PGGM, a pensioninsurance company, one of the biggest in the Netherlands, and that is what I'm still studying for. So maybe I get my brain back and my will to study.
About Me
- Working dude
- Born and bread in the Netherlands, living together with my girlfriend.
1 comment:
You do have readers, well, at least one that is.
I have a day off and since i'll stay home i can write again.
Sometimes it's hard to find the time to read and to answer even though that's not really an excuse.
But i read it and i'm answering.
I feel sad to know that this last project wasn't as nice as you expected, i know you had hoped that the change would be for the best but it didn't really go that way.
It's a drag to have to listen to managers change the work pace almost everyday an no one knowing exactly what they have to do.
Communication nowadays seems so simple with all these gadgets we've invented but still you see miscommunication every single day. Or is it because people don't know how to tell someone else what they have to do or it's because their egos are so blown uo they think they don't even have to give a reason for a change and just do what they want.
But thankfully you're done with that project and hopefully is the new one better.
You shouldn't be "forced" to forget your capabilities, if you can do more let your managers and superiors know it and i believe in time they'll place you on a motivating project.
I keep hoping for you.
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