jennyaxe | Afternoon wibble

Back from day one of the course. It's reasonably interesting, so far, and I spent most of the breaks talking to Carina, who works in customer support. She's a horsewoman; her daughter competes on a national level and is apparently quite good, so we had a lot of time to talk about horses and riding and so on.

There were two persons from other companies at the course, plus the three of us from Telenor. One of the other "outsiders" was a bit irritating. He claimed to have been involved in union work for almost twenty years, yet did not know anything about how a union works and what it does. I'd've thought that just about anyone raised in Sweden would know what a "kollektivavtal" ("collective contract" would be the English term, I guess - it's where a workers' union and an employer work out the contract together, and then it's valid for all employees) is - but he asked at least four times before he understood... or at least stopped asking. So we didn't get as far as we'd hoped to today.

I did get some interesting information about our insurances, though. It appears that if I do get my "burned-out-ness" accepted as being caused by my job, I should be getting 100 % remuneration instead of the usual 80 % - because my employer, by ignoring my requests for medical assistance, have actively caused the problem. This could be fun.

And I do plan on going riding tonight. It's been too long, and I've spent too much time talking about horses and not enough time actually meeting them. Besides, I miss the people there.