It's called freedom and you can't have it. Period.

After some stressful times with my 2nd term project at university, some time of doing nothing and a one-week holiday in croatia inbetween I have now started working for the Siemens VAI, which I will be doing for the next 4 weeks.

I wasn't really expecting it but now retrospective (i looked that word up) it still seems quite inevitable that every time I start a short-term job at this place nobody really knows what to do with me. Of course I also know for a fact that I'm not the only person to have this happen to them.
This time was still different though. The guy who is supposed to handle my workflow isn't even around right now (he's in China and afterwards will go straight to Russia and is not expected to come back until October) which is already funny enough to begin with.

However his colleague, who is a really nice guy (so far i've made out his name to be Gi Shen, I will of course try to get into detail about the spelling), tried to fill this hole by trying to find a Laptop and my User Account Information for me which then let him find out that his colleague (the guy who is in China) was by far not the only important person who was currently abroad.
Still they had some crappy HP Notebook laying around which I am currently writing this Post on.

What this led me to was finding out once again that the Siemens VAI restrictions on how employees are allowed to use both the Internet and their Computer itself are practically designed to not let you think or do anything out of the box. Of course I come from an IT playground where it would be unthinkable to not be able to do some command line testing or any weird stuff that doesn't really do anything but give you valuable information at times. Certainly I wouldn't want to break anything. But here I sit with a basic access only to internet sites which are absolutely positive about not containing any information that could break these rules.

Basically Siemens VAI employees can say: "We have Internet, but not the real one y'know."
There is one upside to this though: The guy who is in China right now has his own office which I can now sit in all by myself.

In my eyes nothing has changed about the Siemens VAI except that the guidelines and restrictions may have become even tighter overall. Of course after my first day I still didn't get anything to do, so as soon as that changes it hopefully won't seem all that bad. After all I'm not here to watch YouTube videos or go to Facebook (I guess).

Maybe I'll keep you updated about how my job goes on although I would much prefer posting some things about Personal- or Mobile Computing. Don't have any ideas yet.

see you