What's up with KR?

Kingreno · 08-03-2005, 20:02

Hi!

As several others have a "personal" topic in their own forum I decided to make one as well.
As some of you may know I lost my job at Aristo last December due to bad economic results over the last years. I worked there for over 4 years, the last 2 years as chef de buffet (that's someone responisible for everything having to do with F&B). I really did well in the last function and the restaurant (250+ seats) was doing pretty well compared to other parts of the company. However, as 40% of the employees were fired (that's about 50 people) in the last 2 years I too had to go. Kind'a sucks as my Manager wanted to keep me but the upper-management fired people based on contracts.
That meant, that from half-december on I was unermployed! Well, technicly from january first but that is not how it felt. Going through the governemnt channels was something miraclous to do as that felt like going through a whole new world! It showed me that anyone who has not been there has no clue what it is like. I had, and have, many long discussions about how and why I think things do not work the right way. (feel free to ask...)
Anyways, around the first week I had my many aplications sent to various functions. I have no education to speak of so this is realy hard! The market utterly sucks and nice jobs are hard to find (though sucky jobs come plenty!!). This all seemed to take ages. then at the start of Februari a woman from a company very near my house called me asking if I had interest to come and talk for an Internal commercial sales function.
I hesitated at first as it usually means hard sales either by phone or by door, with salary based on sales and a very though atmosphere. This turned out to be untrue! The company (called Ergonimoque) sells ergonomic products to companies in Europe, while "guiding" these companies in an anti-RSI strategy. This mainly means finding out which complaints people have when they are doing their (office-) work and finding ways to fix it. I could go on but I took the job and am working there very happily for 3 weeks now, getting the hang of it quite fast!
This job is on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays only for now. I want to study something at a relaxed tempo besides this, but there is also something else...as I will become a father rather soon! me and the gf have planned this well and some of you knew this for some time now (and kept it at silence

). Just not too surprise you when the moment is there I thought to let you know. The gf is doing great and there are no complications. We expect him/her to arrive late April, the predicted date being exactly on Queens-day. We are very very much looking forward to this. For CDZ this will mean a very steep decline of participation in the first months as you will understand but don't expect me to go byebye either. I will do my very best to fullfill duties here, for a very long time to come.
Sorry for the long read but I guess you deserve to know why that pbem does not get to your inbox at the same speed as it once did.

08-03-2005, 20:02	#1
Kingreno Moderator Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Netherlands. Posts: 3,270	What's up with KR? Hi! As several others have a "personal" topic in their own forum I decided to make one as well. As some of you may know I lost my job at Aristo last December due to bad economic results over the last years. I worked there for over 4 years, the last 2 years as chef de buffet (that's someone responisible for everything having to do with F&B). I really did well in the last function and the restaurant (250+ seats) was doing pretty well compared to other parts of the company. However, as 40% of the employees were fired (that's about 50 people) in the last 2 years I too had to go. Kind'a sucks as my Manager wanted to keep me but the upper-management fired people based on contracts. That meant, that from half-december on I was unermployed! Well, technicly from january first but that is not how it felt. Going through the governemnt channels was something miraclous to do as that felt like going through a whole new world! It showed me that anyone who has not been there has no clue what it is like. I had, and have, many long discussions about how and why I think things do not work the right way. (feel free to ask...) Anyways, around the first week I had my many aplications sent to various functions. I have no education to speak of so this is realy hard! The market utterly sucks and nice jobs are hard to find (though sucky jobs come plenty!!). This all seemed to take ages. then at the start of Februari a woman from a company very near my house called me asking if I had interest to come and talk for an Internal commercial sales function. I hesitated at first as it usually means hard sales either by phone or by door, with salary based on sales and a very though atmosphere. This turned out to be untrue! The company (called Ergonimoque) sells ergonomic products to companies in Europe, while "guiding" these companies in an anti-RSI strategy. This mainly means finding out which complaints people have when they are doing their (office-) work and finding ways to fix it. I could go on but I took the job and am working there very happily for 3 weeks now, getting the hang of it quite fast! This job is on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays only for now. I want to study something at a relaxed tempo besides this, but there is also something else...as I will become a father rather soon! me and the gf have planned this well and some of you knew this for some time now (and kept it at silence). Just not too surprise you when the moment is there I thought to let you know. The gf is doing great and there are no complications. We expect him/her to arrive late April, the predicted date being exactly on Queens-day. We are very very much looking forward to this. For CDZ this will mean a very steep decline of participation in the first months as you will understand but don't expect me to go byebye either. I will do my very best to fullfill duties here, for a very long time to come. Sorry for the long read but I guess you deserve to know why that pbem does not get to your inbox at the same speed as it once did. __________________ Go ahead punk. Make my day.