It’s been a while since my assistant didn’t post anything here, so I should try improve this situation.
This time I’ll tell you a story about how is to be an employee in Sweden.

It started with a smile, then a warm “hello, how are you” and I then I told myself that’s all for the beginning. I thought it’s very typical way of welcoming a new colleague – a very tall one 😎 . However I was wrong, very wrong!

After 5 minutes of walking in the office and meeting almost 500 new colleagues I really understood how difficult is to be a president or a receptionist 😆 . Anyway was quite easy to remember them, since many people are foreigners and represent one certain country. Regarding the Swedish colleagues, was a little bit difficult, since everybody is relative with Mr. Ericsson, Karlsson and of course Johansson 😆 .

After explaining everybody and showing on the globe where the lovely Moldova is I decided to go next to the floor to introduce my self to the remaining 500 colleagues. Surprise ! They already know my name. I guess every employee receives in advance an e-mail that a new person is coming, something like this: “Dear all, please notice that we have a new colleague from Moldova, take into consideration that Moldova is not a GAME and it’s not a country from Balkans, so this time you may hide your guns” 😀 .

I guess the first small shock came when a person from the IT department apologized for the whole company that they didn’t manage to buy the need quantity of laptop bags, so temporary I am supposed to be satisfied with a back-pack. The second excuse came from the same department, but because of Sony Ericsson’s fault. They didn’t manage to delivery a cell phone for the only Moldavian in the company, can you imagine I was supposed to wait 1 day – 1 whole day 😆 . I don’t have the experience of working inside many companies, but this one is simply amazing 😯 . The way how fast the information travel from one department to another one simply surprises me.

Next pleasant surprise was my multifunctional working place. I don’t think that in every company you receive gifts, welcome letter and different useful things like good headphones Sennheiser, a real keyboard – so I am not supposed to wait for it 1 week as others did 😆 . I mentioned that the place is multifunctional – yeah, the table is electric and is adjustable. Maybe, it’s sounds funny for you, but for People Republic of Moldova this is completely high-tech 😳 .

You think this is enough, NO, of course not. Imagine you receive a big, nice bouquet of flowers on the 1st of April. You would say, yeah right “good joke guys”, but actually it’s from the same company, it’s just arrived a little bit late. This is the way how the company welcomes every employee.

More interesting is the way how the process of performance management is working inside the company. This process is done in such a friendly way that you even don’t realize that somebody is controlling and evaluating your performance. Also this is not the company where you are an expert in your figures and you have no clue of what is marketing, IT, HR department. We have so many meetings with people from the other departments so soon or late you really may become a CEO of company 🙄 , because you almost understand how everything is working in the company.

Another way of how the company is trying to retain employees is to organize as many afterwork activities as possible. This is the best way how you can meet your boss, explain him the sense of “Where is Moldova” game, play some interactive games and if you have some problems with him, laser game is the best way how you may solve these issues 😀 :

I was so pleasant surprised by how the HR department takes care of every employee that I decided to choose this company to do a project at the university. To project is about how important is to have a strong company culture in order to be a successful company and to have a 20% growth every year for the period of over 40 years!

That’s all for the moment and Happy Easter everybody!*

*-Christian Orthodoxy celebrate Easter this weekend