I did it again. I bought myself a new toy. While my girlfriend is on the other side of the ocean buying a house, I decided I wanted a digital camcorder to record our trip to Paris were we will be as of June 9th. We had a camcorder with us when we went to New York in 2001 (just a few weeks before the September 11th attack) but that was a NTSC camcorder that Carrie got from a collegue. Well, this time I bought a camcorder myself. I bought the Sony DCR-TRV33E, a nice 1 megapixel MiniDV camera with […]
Survivor’s guilt
Ok, the 26th passed and I’m still employed. Al lot of my colleagues got fired though. Some I know pretty well. They offered me a new job as ‘client services manager’ – whatever that may be. They said they want to extend my contract with one year, so I guess that is positive. Most people I know that got fired were from the sales department. Another guy was from the IT department that I work with and he was a ‘programmer’ (although he wasn’t any good at his work he was still kind of a nice guy). I didn’t mention […]
Were are my @#&*&*******!!! archives!
Were are my @#&*&*******!!! archives! Ok I just noticed that for some odd reason my archives link on the left side doesn’t work. Seems some javascript error. It is always something with Blogger!. Anyways just as a service I will post some links here: January 2003 February 2003 March 2003 May 2003 June 2003 Hope they fix that Javascript error soon….
“Slaves can’t be fired: they get sold”
“Slaves can’t be fired: they get sold” As I mentioned in my latest blog my company is cutting jobs. This week, thursday the 26th to be exact, it’s “bijltjesdag” as they say in Dutch. Roughly translated this means it is the day when people will get ‘the axe’ – a nice euphemism for saying they wil get a pink slip. As I explained before I can’t be ‘fired’ in the legal sense of the word. They can just say they will not extend my current contract. In which case I will not get any unemployment benefits and will roughly have […]