Well that is that. 9 years of the public sector struggle is over.
Start my new role at Northrop Grumman on Monday. Have a feeling I might be for a bit of a shock.
Good company to work for - cutting edge of Defence kit.
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Ok so I brought this up at my first board meeting since my return from hols.
I wasn't rude but very to the point.
They looked at me as if I had had a stroke or something. However a couple did say "you know what I've noticed there's some issues too..." which then triggered a lot more discussion.
They're now going to create a squad to deep dive into this and make sure we fix the problem. So that's a positive I guess.
Very cool!Start my new role at Northrop Grumman on Monday. Have a feeling I might be in for a bit of a shock.
There's a special seat (with a sharpened titanium spike sticking out of it) in hell reserved for people who use PowerPoint as a means of doing actual work in. Seriously? Why? What gives??? Why?? Especially those who use tables and cram lots of information into them. And then go off the page and then the scroll function screws things up. And you can't even copy and paste the table data nicely into Excel.
These people need to be dealt with.
These people need to be dealt with.
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New starter supposed to be in for their induction about a minute before they are supposed to start phone up to literally say they can't be bothered with the job... one of my colleagues who came in 2 hours extra at the start of their shift to do their induction is not amused.
Have you flagged it up to anyone?This is more of a vent but things really are not fun right nowI don't see an end, my to-do list is growing and I just can't seem to manage it effectively.
Yeah, need to be careful what I put out in the public domain at the moment but there's only a few of us and we're all in the same boat, just not sure what the economy holds, projects being pushed back or cancelled due to RAAC and lots of redundancies going on at our clients.
Got a meeting on Thursday to discuss and looking at apps to work out how I can better manage and track my time
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Yeah, need to be careful what I put out in the public domain at the moment but there's only a few of us and we're all in the same boat, just not sure what the economy holds, projects being pushed back or cancelled due to RAAC and lots of redundancies going on at our clients.
Got a meeting on Thursday to discuss and looking at apps to work out how I can better manage and track my time
Well, there's only so much you can do, I know that's easy for me to say but you can literally only do so much, it's not your fault if there is too much to do, as long as you work on the highest priority stuff and everyone is aware of what's not getting done, then they will have to accept that.
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Had 3 interviews over the past 2 weeks, one has scheduled an 3rd interview for next week with their Chief Digital Transformation Officer. This will be an senior role so multiple interviews is ok with me on this.
Other company called me today, they are impressed with my technical skills from the first interview and want to invite me for an 2nd interview but because I dont speak the local language to an business level (German/Swiss German). They want me to take a 3k a year paycut from my salary expectationsconsidering they are moving to an more international business model and I bring so much technical skills of nearly 2 decades with current technologies. Which they are struggling to find with anyone here.
So I'm waiting for a call back.
So its been a interesting few weeks.
I didn't accept the role which wanted me to take a paycut but an got an offer from the role I had the interview with their Chief Digital Transformation Officer. Which I accepted 3 weeks ago
Need to grind out the next 3 months notice period but thankfully something in my contract HR didn't notice until someone pointed it out. My 3 months notice start from the day I resign not the month end like usual companies do in Switzerland. Leaving me nice 10 days in November before I start my new job December 1st.The day I resigned HR called me into the office to ask if anything they could do for me to stay. Considering the main reason I am leaving is because the company has an strict in the office, 5 days a week, 9 to 6 with no flexibility or work from home. Which they couldn't offer me yet I work in IT.
The next day I saw my boss being called into the office by the COO, I thought nothing of it. Then I was called into the office, they made offers for me to stay. More money, promotion to Senior and they would pay for my German classes (where was all of this before I decided to resign
) Anyway my answer was still no as the new job is offering better and I don't need to be in the office everyday.Over the coming weeks, our dev guy resigned, the companies CTO resigned and yesterday my boss resigned. Everyone has just had enough of the place. Our IT department went from 10 people last year and will be 3 people remaining by end of December.
Another note, also started doing some work remotely for a charity based in the UK. As their Cyber Security Manager, I wasn't expecting anything when I applied a few months back but after one interview. They decided to accept me
Not sure how long its going to last but its something to do in my spare time after work and another skillset I can build.
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Correct move to leave.So its been a interesting few weeks.
I didn't accept the role which wanted me to take a paycut but an got an offer from the role I had the interview with their Chief Digital Transformation Officer. Which I accepted 3 weeks ago
The day I resigned HR called me into the office to ask if anything they could do for me to stay. Considering the main reason I am leaving is because the company has an strict in the office, 5 days a week, 9 to 6 with no flexibility or work from home. Which they couldn't offer me yet I work in IT.
The next day I saw my boss being called into the office by the COO, I thought nothing of it. Then I was called into the office, they made offers for me to stay. More money, promotion to Senior and they would pay for my German classes (where was all of this before I decided to resign
Over the coming weeks, our dev guy resigned, the companies CTO resigned and yesterday my boss resigned. Everyone has just had enough of the place. Our IT department went from 10 people last year and will be 3 people remaining by end of December.
Another note, also started doing some work remotely for a charity based in the UK. As their Cyber Security Manager, I wasn't expecting anything when I applied a few months back but after one interview. They decided to accept me
Had an interesting question from the deputy group cto.. asking me in a screenshot bullet list represented what I do.. so I emailed back what I do, what I expect todo and what the original job spec says I will do (vastly different).
So it looks like they are finalising the org restructure ask…
Interesting times.. ahead
So it looks like they are finalising the org restructure ask…
Interesting times.. ahead
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Yep, Im glad to be out in November.
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Well there's a CTO job going there now, always time to change your mind.
The hell with that!
Was speaking to one of the HR staff today. Told me the CEO is blaming her and the head hunters for people leaving and not filling the positions.
He clearly hasn't read the exit interview notes over the last 18 months
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