Hey there! My name is Ioanna and I’m currently in my last year of training to become an IT specialist for application development. For the last few months of my apprenticeship, I have the opportunity to work with our TecCom Portal team within the Business Unit Order Manager.
Since most of the German colleagues within the team are located in Munich, I was given the chance to visit our location is Munich in order to meet the team in person.
I arrived on Monday and was greeted by a few friendly colleagues who showed me around the building and led me to the office my team works in. After a long journey, a very warm welcome and a bit of work it was finally time to call it a day. The following week was filled with meeting new colleagues, getting to know the members of our team better and gaining further insights into the work we do in our business unit. I was able to really come out of my shell thanks to the kind, open and warm working environment the colleagues in Munich provided and was able to learn a lot on a professional level thanks to their open mindset in regard to helping others.
However, my trip to Munich was not limited to working. Due to the fact that Erwin and Marcello – two of our IT-Specialist trainees – were also currently working from our office in Munich we decided to drive to the city center of Munich on Monday. We sat down in a bar and talked about our experiences – given the period of our rotation – and about carnival which is greatly celebrated in Germany at the moment.
Later that week I went on a solo trip through Munich with the goal to see as many sights as possible.
My favorite sight by far is the Königsplatz since I really loved the architecture of the Propyläen and the surrounding structures.
All in all, I am really happy and thankful that I had the chance to visit Munich and to get to know our team in person. I´m already looking forward to meeting them again in a few weeks’ time.
