Week 11 the 25th of May

Last week Friday I wanted to finish the assignment I started to work on Thursday regarding the working from the office doing Corona. I gave my supervisor a call because I had a few questions to him regarding the layout when he picked up he was surprised and it turned out that I had a day off. Last week Friday was the feast of ascension which we call Hemelvaart in Dutch. So, in theory, I was off from work, however, my supervisor said if I do not celebrate it I can work it’s all up to me so I decided to take a day off. It’s funny how I did not realize that I had a day off although I am Christian raised myself, even my mum laughed at me when I mentioned that I called my supervisor during ascension feast. At the end of the day, I didn’t send my supervisor the end of the week report which I usually sent him weekly around the same time of the day. He never asks about it so I just emailed it to him.

One of my other tasks for the day was clear; make a list of required products such as sanitation products, etc. And second but not least write out guidelines to follow for when the offices will open up again for employees. I was very excited to work on this since it is of high importance and a lot of responsibility is given to me with this task. I made sure that the form is applicable in both offices (small office upstairs 20m2 and big on downstairs 95m2) since it is still not certainly sure on whether my supervisor will cancel the rent of one of the offices to save some cash. For the time being, he informed me that he receives some kind of funding to get through this hard period we all find ourselves in. I didn’t bother to ask about financial information. I felt a little anxious in the end being worried that i might forget some very important information in the end. So just to be sure I called with my supervisor on the phone and he mentioned that he will have a look at the document tomorrow.

I like to highlight that it was very hard to find any information in English on how the businesses have to proceed during the pandemic, a lot of information came from either the government website which I translated through Google or information I heard about Spain on the Dutch news. Next time I would have asked a local with a business to inform me about the the different measures the government is putting in place for me to take into account. And if encountered ever again to make it realistic ask one of my peers from studies who are Spanish to ask their parents or friends and inform me.