Day 2 at work meant:
a new CELL PHONE!!!!! +36 30 334 3959 but the realization that I am without a bb for 3.5 months - what am I going to do without permanent access to Google maps, pandora, internet, and emails?
a taxi card
my very own badge to get in the pwc building
I had a whole lesson today on 1) pronouncing hungarian words - I may leave here and still not know how to say a single word 2) Hungarian names - People say their name backwards here - last name first and and first name last. However, if they are writing to a person who is English speaking they will often switch the order. This makes it very confusing to figure out which is the first and which is the last name. Confusing further, they often have familiar names that people only get to call them once you are good enough friends. Ugh how can a name be so confusing. 3) vacation time - Hungarians save their vaca time for summer when the work week is only 32 hours long so you can take a full week of vaca for only 4 days of vacation time. 4) sick time - Hungarian doctors will often instruct their patients to stay home for an entire week if they have a cold and they actually really stay home 5) maternity leave - the government pays for TWO YEARS of 60% of your salary AND you have a guaranteed job when you come back. maybe i should move to Hungary when I decide to have a baby? 6) overtime - Hungarians auditors get paid it. I would get paid time and a half for all my time over 45 hours a week during busy season and 32 hours during the summer. Do you know how rich I would be?
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Sweet, so when are you going to call me? I am afraid to call and it costing me lots of $$$.
ReplyDeletedid you get my note about google talk? skype isn't going to work because my firm has it blocked. what time you getting home tonight?
ReplyDeleteI will get Mike onto the Whirlpool mystery.
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