Work: May 2002 Archives
I have been working now for four days in the international departement, and so far everything goes really well. The first two days, my colleague explained me all the ins and outs of FrontRetail, one of ICG's applications. And now I am working hard on the Dutch translation of this application. Must be easy for me, not? Indeed, not! Translating is a lot more difficult than I expected. Partly because the structure of the two languages is different, partly because I started with a badly translated version, partly because some words have more meanings, but most of all because my lack of knowledge of accounting.
Furthermore things go great. The office is absolutely beautiful (I still have to try out the swimming pool in the garden), my colleagues are helping me a lot and I am helping them (being the only tecnician in the office). The small problems every new office have like the absence of a coffee machine and an airco that works as a freezer will be solved soon.
I have been working a little bit more than six months now for Ricomack. During this time I have got to know Ricomack and the mother company ICG. I also have been able to transform myself from AIX/UNIX oriented into a generalist, since I have been working with Windows 2000, Windows XP, RedHat Linux, routers, networking, Point-Of-Sale systems, printers, the ICG software, ... I have to say that I really like my work, although sometimes the work is not exactly what I like to do (like repairing 10 year old PC's). But anyway, I feel comfortable in this company.
But last Friday I got an offer I couldn't resist. ICG wants me to be in their international 'department'. At this moment this department is operated by only one colleague, who is responsible for both the international sales and support. And that combination sometimes is a problem, because it is hard to support other clients being on an international sales visit. So now I am going to help in the support.
This morning I packed my new PC and went off to the new office. Let's see what we can do here...
