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Silke Denker, Trainee Controlling
Diary entry, Montataire, France
I have been working in our French subsidiary in this small village north of Paris for two months now. I arrived with the task of filling a benchmark with life. I've got to manage many things at the same time. My French is still not very good. I still have to learn how the company functions. There are many things that need to be driven simultaneously. And in between, colleagues from Germany keep calling in order to seize the chance to place work packages ("well, now that you are there anyway"). It's nice because I see a lot of new things, but it's also exhausting because I have to set up new methods for most of the tasks.
A letter from Fort Worth, Texas
Dear Mike,
guess where I am right now? I found a project in the US, in Fort Worth, Texas. Again I am working for the manufacturing unit of our company.
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I'm here to prepare the budgeting process for the next fiscal year. Transferring German practises, involving more people in the process, bringing back knowledge to Germany about the US operations. Again, like in France, German headquarters is so far away. The time lag to Europe means that I have to exchange a lot of information in the space of just a few hours, otherwise it has to wait until tomorrow. I have to go into detail; dig here, dig there, and put all the little pieces together in the end. Sometimes it's harder to find out what the problem is than to actually solve it.
I work long hours but work is less hectic, more personal than in Germany. I enjoy my time in the office; partly though because for me right now life is work because I have no friends around.
Silke
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