Hi folks,
yesterday I met Patrick and Mr Weigelt in a pub in Templebar. We discussed our internship, the companies, the Irish mentality and the prices of food and beer. Mr Weigelt asked me if it would be possible to visit me today. Unfortunately my supervisor is in France at the moment so I had to deny. Not a problem because due to this he has more time to visit Dublin and surroundings. But one thing he said stayed in my mind: We write too much about our free time activities and too little about our working experience. I checked and have to admit that he is absolutely right. So I will give you an overview of my work:
My main task was, is and will be the improvement of the hager-website. I have already changed a lot of pages but unfortunately most of them are not online because they have to be checked by my supervisor. I am familiar with the CMS(a hager owned one – not Typo3 or Joomla) and I know which products need to be updated but I am not familiar with the products themselves(they are electrical products like consumer units, enclosures, junction boxes… – I think an ITSE might be suited better for this). Usually I use other Hager pages(UK, Germany, France, …) as an example for my work.
Since my supervisor was not here yesterday and today and I finished my previous page I decided to check the Service and Hager page(companies profile) and I was shocked how bad they were organised and that these pages aren’t user-friendly at all. I think for an incomplete website like the one from Hager Ireland the most important pages are the ones for services because when users visit the website that would be the most important reason.
I moved the companies profile page to Hager(why ever it was in the Service chapter) and added a text about the Hager group. Additionally I will add a main page for each chapter which will help users orientate when they visit our website for the first time.
Tomorrow I will see my supervisor for the last time because he will be on holidays last week. Well I prepared a list with lots of questions which he has to answer tomorrow).
I hope you get an idea what I do at work
Write you soon
Jonas
Hi Jonas,
If you take a look at my posts you’ll also see that although successfully having developed a big chunk of corporate software I prefer to write more about the country and the people I meet.
Why? Well, I can code projects like this blindfolded, the challenging part is to extract the specifications and requirements from the users which then mostly are covered by my confidentiality agreement. So there is not that much new to write about the business intelligence I am modelling which is a company secret anyway. I concentrate more on the technical descriptions and topics regarding solely myself.
This exchange program is not just about work, yes we DO work 5 days a week, but the real challenges we encounter are more of a social nature and are the ones we are supposed to encounter, otherwise we also could have stayed home…
So I think Mr. W. should relax a bit and think about what he expects from sending his apprentices to a foreign country. Of course it’s nice it they gain new technical skills, but that should have been covered already otherwise it would mean we have a lot of catching up to do if we compare Irish and German teaching standards.
So I would be happy if my apprentices learn something genuinely useful like coping with new social situations and brush up their English skills no matter how.
I also think that you did a great thing organizing your individual trip around Ireland. Coping with every day stuff like this in a different country has taught you more than reorganizing 1000 corporate websites.
You may have a point there but bla bla bla bla. You know?
I do not really want to write this much about my work because it has not much to do with the usual work of a FISI but I think that I should write that I was working and not relaxing the whole time.
I hope the weather is fine this weekend because I want to visit Irelands’s Eye and Newgrange. Enjoy your last weekend in Belfast (and in Germany – without us)
Jonas
Hi Jonas
I think it’s okay to write some but not all about your work. Not any firm like to read internals and secrets – so about a mismanaging or incondid websites.
Oh – we’ve had a surprice yesterday – we got a postcard from Ireland!
Thanks and enjoy the next time, the music, the landscape …( my vocabulary is ending here ;-))
upunktepunkt
I almost forgot to tell you: Mr Weigelt visited me yesterday cause he didn’t receive my SMS(don’t ask me why…). We talked with the boss about me and about the internship in general. I showed him the office and my desktop.
Just as a little additional info
Jonas