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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 06/16/2024 : 01:03:37 [Permalink]
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For the last 6½ years I've been working as a technician for the Australian mining company Orica. A few decades ago they bought the Swedish company Nitro Nobel, which was founded by Alfred Nobel. Anyways, about a month ago one of the middle managers for the section I'm working for, Mining Services, needed to make some local down-sizing due to reduced business.
My department has been as busy as always, but it has been passed around different organizations never really fitting in anywhere. We manufacture, service, and repair the initiation system. The electronic boxes with the button you press to make all the things go boom. First, my department belonged to the After Sales and Logistics organization. Then we were moved to Engineering. Then to Production, and the latest move was to Mining Services about a year ago. During these 6½ years, I've had 10 managers in total.
Like I said, my department (all two of us) are as busy as always, but middle management decided that one of us had to go as a part of the "restructuring". Labour law says "last in, first out" which means I'm being made redundant. When I leave, I take 80% of the technical skills, electronics, troubleshooting experience, computer and IT systems knowledge.
My co-worker is going to get worked to death, and I predict the department will collapse in less than 6 months. He's already making stress-induced mistakes which is compounding on an already bad situation.
I'm happy though.
I have been contemplating about rage-quitting over poor salary-development for the last 3 years. Thanks to circumstances, the decision was taken out of my hands, and I feel a sense of relief. June 20th is the Swedish midsummer holiday, which marks the start of a 5½ weeks of accumulated vacation days until my employment formally ends.
Also, I have a new job lined up. I've been to two interviews for a new position with a military sub-contractor, and they are interested in hiring me. Next, I'm going to get vetted by the Swedish Secret Service...
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 07/12/2024 : 19:00:13 [Permalink]
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Cool, Mab!
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9689 Posts |
Posted - 12/24/2024 : 15:53:55 [Permalink]
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A lot has happened since summer.
I went on a long vacation from June 20th until September 18th when I started my new job at SAAB as an electronics engineer. My job is electronics maintenance on JAS 39 Gripen (Swedish air-force combat fighter), I'm not allowed to say more.
During the summer break I had a contrast x-ray of my head to verify the discovery of an arterial aneurysm in my brain. I only got to work at my new job for 2 weeks before the scheduled operation of the aneurysm. 8 weeks of recovery before getting back to work at SAAB at the end of November. This thursday (December 19th) I had my final meeting with the doctor who declared my case closed, with a clean bill of health.
The coolest thing about all this? General Health Care System. I haven't paid a penny out of my own pocket for this. Not for the MRI, not the contrast x-ray, nor the surgery-and-hospital stay connected to it. Except through taxes, of course, just like everybody else.
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Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
Support American Troops in Iraq:
Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
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The water cooler, part 3
