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The other way forward
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“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything…” This piece of urban wisdom, from Fight Club, haunted me since the first time I heard it. I never quite completely understood it until I was going too loose a big part of my “everything”.
January 11, 2010, was the first day of work for this New Year, after the winter holiday. In this first day of work I got fired. I was invited to a “start of the year meeting”, with all the executives. Every department discussed their plan for the next year and after two hours it was my turn to present my action plan. Then my boss started to express his disappointment about my work until that point and I was announced without any warning, that “something is not working”, and “it would be better if we part ways”. This was after only three months in office. I was for only three months, the Communications and PR Executive for a medium size Romanian company that is active in PVC windows and doors industry.
It became obvious right away that this “something” that was not working anymore was in fact everything. We just had presidential elections in Romania. To make a long story short it was a confrontation between two parties – orange and red. My city is a red city. My former company was medium size going for national size because it was red also and benefited from big lucrative contracts for public works, many of them secured by bending the law with the complicity of those red politicians elected with their help. Read the rest of this entry »
