guest2013-1
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2007 was a big year for me. I found a girl that loved me for me (first time I had an experience like that) my fast paced job in JHB got me to the point where I realised that it was impacting on my relationship and that my personal life has taken a huge knock over the last 5 years.
Even though the relationship ended, moving back home (Cape Town) and working for a smaller salary made me happier. We decided to stay friends (all you know my history by now) and that worked for me. I enjoy that.
So, I did what I always wanted to do, moved overseas. I'm in Dubai now, with a higher salary, back on the path of a fast paced job. Higher salary usually means more responsibility, nothing I can't handle I can assure you, but the first time in a real management position (doubling as everything else related to IT, I like doing this job but yea)
I took over from a real idiot. He ****ed up so royally that it's literally taking me months to sort out. The management perspective on 2 of these projects is really big, I've outsourced one of them because I couldn't find the time to program it in myself... and the other project is horribly over deadline.
This now brings the company in the position where we're losing money each month. We're not getting any new work done (even though we get a lot of calls to do work for) because of the old work still pending. Plus, this company has a sub-devision e-commerce site that also requires a LOT of my time in sorting out (due to the previous **** up mentioned) and I'm not at the point where I'm working 6 days a week and feel like I'm not making any progress.
On top of this, my residence visa only came in yesterday (was promised a month ago) without which I can't do much. So my bank account should have also been organized, but there is several reasons for the company not doing that yet.
No bank account means no history of my salary going into that account, meaning no way for me to take out a loan just to cover the expenses I incurred the last 2 months in South Africa due to debit orders and such. I already borrowed 20 000 from a friend to cover my expenses with the promise of my bank account sorted in Dubai.
This is all adding up so fast and too much that I'm not at the point of wanting to give up. Tell the company to go **** itself, go back to South Africa and just sukkel like the rest of you and continue ****ing around till I die kind of thing.
The whole idea for me moving down to Cape Town in the first place is to have a balance in my personal life compared to the amount of work I put in, now I'm back to square 1.
I really don't know what to do or think anymore
Even though the relationship ended, moving back home (Cape Town) and working for a smaller salary made me happier. We decided to stay friends (all you know my history by now) and that worked for me. I enjoy that.
So, I did what I always wanted to do, moved overseas. I'm in Dubai now, with a higher salary, back on the path of a fast paced job. Higher salary usually means more responsibility, nothing I can't handle I can assure you, but the first time in a real management position (doubling as everything else related to IT, I like doing this job but yea)
I took over from a real idiot. He ****ed up so royally that it's literally taking me months to sort out. The management perspective on 2 of these projects is really big, I've outsourced one of them because I couldn't find the time to program it in myself... and the other project is horribly over deadline.
This now brings the company in the position where we're losing money each month. We're not getting any new work done (even though we get a lot of calls to do work for) because of the old work still pending. Plus, this company has a sub-devision e-commerce site that also requires a LOT of my time in sorting out (due to the previous **** up mentioned) and I'm not at the point where I'm working 6 days a week and feel like I'm not making any progress.
On top of this, my residence visa only came in yesterday (was promised a month ago) without which I can't do much. So my bank account should have also been organized, but there is several reasons for the company not doing that yet.
No bank account means no history of my salary going into that account, meaning no way for me to take out a loan just to cover the expenses I incurred the last 2 months in South Africa due to debit orders and such. I already borrowed 20 000 from a friend to cover my expenses with the promise of my bank account sorted in Dubai.
This is all adding up so fast and too much that I'm not at the point of wanting to give up. Tell the company to go **** itself, go back to South Africa and just sukkel like the rest of you and continue ****ing around till I die kind of thing.
The whole idea for me moving down to Cape Town in the first place is to have a balance in my personal life compared to the amount of work I put in, now I'm back to square 1.
I really don't know what to do or think anymore
