Yeap after all the politics and messing around. My boss, the CTO, is leaving the company. so its all change here. Actually I been ages since I've known but had to keep quite about it until all the legal stuff was sorted and the official announcement has been made.
He's leaving partly because of all the complaints from the us during the staff survey and partly some stuff happening in the board.
It was turning into the worse kept secret in the company and as I found out in the pub several months back, its good its out in the open. The department was in a bit of a holding pattern waiting for the other shoe to drop and so we could talk to the rest of the company about it(and make the odd blog!)
and yes that what my cryptic post about the situation changing in the department was about and why I haven't had a career review this year.
So a big opportunity for me and I guess there will be a shake up in the department. At last I should have a new line manager and finally get an annual review.
Anyway must dash as we are about to have the leaving speeches.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Zell am See Skiing trip 3!
Ok
A great little trip to Austria with the people at Snowbreaks.
At the resort of Zell am See and Kaprun.
Zell is by a beautiful lake at only 500m and by the end of the week it was very much summer holiday conditions. In fact one day coming back from the slopes Kevin (another skier) and I sat in the bus in full ski gear opposite a group of lads in shorts and flip-flops!.
to get to the skiing you take a cable car 1500m up at Zell and a bus plus a cable car to 2000m at Kaprun.
The conditions went from cold and snowy (day 1), to very hot and very sunny (days 3-4) to crazy whiteout skiing (day 6)
the first two days we skied Zell which got very slushy by the end and then 4 days at Kaprun which has a glacier so it guaranteed snow. however being the Easter weekend its also guaranteed to be busy.
Our plan to avoid the crowd was to get up real early (no matter what time we were in the bars the night before) at catch the 8am bus to Kaprun so we could be up and skiing before 8:45am. This meant we had the best conditions and clean runs before it got busy. We had lunch at about 11:30 just when it was getting crazy busy and back out for a couple of more hours when most people are at lunch, finally going back to the hotel around 3ish, knackered of course!
Nice bunch of people in fact it worked out that out of the 13 on the trip seven of us were on the Andorra new year trip as well!
really good guides in Bas and Dana the Dutch ski instructors.
Got a bit of a shock a couple of day after we got back as Snowbreaks the company who organised the trip went bust. A shame as I've had some good trips with them.
A great little trip to Austria with the people at Snowbreaks.
At the resort of Zell am See and Kaprun.
Zell is by a beautiful lake at only 500m and by the end of the week it was very much summer holiday conditions. In fact one day coming back from the slopes Kevin (another skier) and I sat in the bus in full ski gear opposite a group of lads in shorts and flip-flops!.
to get to the skiing you take a cable car 1500m up at Zell and a bus plus a cable car to 2000m at Kaprun.
The conditions went from cold and snowy (day 1), to very hot and very sunny (days 3-4) to crazy whiteout skiing (day 6)
the first two days we skied Zell which got very slushy by the end and then 4 days at Kaprun which has a glacier so it guaranteed snow. however being the Easter weekend its also guaranteed to be busy.
Our plan to avoid the crowd was to get up real early (no matter what time we were in the bars the night before) at catch the 8am bus to Kaprun so we could be up and skiing before 8:45am. This meant we had the best conditions and clean runs before it got busy. We had lunch at about 11:30 just when it was getting crazy busy and back out for a couple of more hours when most people are at lunch, finally going back to the hotel around 3ish, knackered of course!
Nice bunch of people in fact it worked out that out of the 13 on the trip seven of us were on the Andorra new year trip as well!
really good guides in Bas and Dana the Dutch ski instructors.
Got a bit of a shock a couple of day after we got back as Snowbreaks the company who organised the trip went bust. A shame as I've had some good trips with them.
Thursday, April 01, 2010
17 Winter sports cover Oh bugger
Ah I've spotted a floor in my plan
3 ski trips in one year works out as 18 days skiing. That mean the annual travel insurance won't cover it all by one single day.
Fortunately the nice people at DogTag (that the insurance company, they print all the info on a dogtag you can wear while you ski) let me cancel my current policy with quite a big refund and take out another policy this time with 24 days cover.
This mean I'm covered for another 3 skiing holidays before next April, interesting!
3 ski trips in one year works out as 18 days skiing. That mean the annual travel insurance won't cover it all by one single day.
Fortunately the nice people at DogTag (that the insurance company, they print all the info on a dogtag you can wear while you ski) let me cancel my current policy with quite a big refund and take out another policy this time with 24 days cover.
This mean I'm covered for another 3 skiing holidays before next April, interesting!
My Boss' last day
Yeah the last day for my line manager.
Not sure who my next one is going to be
guess I can't resign until I know...
Not sure who my next one is going to be
guess I can't resign until I know...
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