Friday, March 6, 2015

My Apprenticeship at DP



Hello, my name is Lina and I’m a 19 year old office management apprentice at DP.



My apprenticeship began on the first of September after a 3 month internship here. Obviously this previous experience helped a lot when my apprenticeship started as I already knew everybody and had a good idea of my tasks. When school started again (I work part time with school) I was really well prepared and had a great overview about what would be happening during the apprenticeship.



It was easy to feel welcome at DP with all the “Beer Friday’s”, parties and team events. The company is very international and open minded, so you can always be who you want to be.

Now I’ve been here for almost 8 months and I have had a lot of different and interesting tasks. I work at reception, what means I’m in contact with a lot of people e.g. other employees, external visitors, interviewees or the postman.  My tasks sitting at the reception are accepting phone calls, preparing meeting rooms or interviews, welcoming new employees, sorting and distributing letters and ordering office supplies. I also have the responsibility of booking business trips, along with accommodation or tickets for exhibitions and conferences. 

I also get an overview of HR work, my task there is to refresh the job ads on various websites.
There are also these routine tasks like making coffee for visitors or watering the plants. :-)

In general I’m the contact for everyone with questions, I try to make everything work for the other employees and in particular the newbies and make sure they know how everything works at DP.
My next step will be to work together with the finance team and I’m really looking forward to getting to know all their tasks.

In conclusion: I’m very glad to be working at DP, I like my tasks and I feel like an important part of the team with a lot of responsibility and I’m happy to be part of the puzzle. :-)

Monday, February 23, 2015

My First Week At DP



Hey folks,

my name is Andreas Franke and I´ve been asked to share my impressions of the first week here at DP with you. 

Even though my job interview was a very pleasant one, I really did not know what to expect. I had no ideas about my colleagues and what to expect at work. 

Sincerely, my first day at DP has been a complete surprise for me. I have been travelling a lot and was working in different jobs, but never felt I welcome somewhere before that quickly. Everybody was friendly, people in my office were really kind and caring from the first minute. We had lunch at a great Asian restaurant in a very relaxed atmosphere.  


Throughout the week I adapted to the schedule at DP and learned how to master the luxurious espresso machine. On Wednesday, there were free Pfannkuchen / Berliner for us, a very welcome surprise. The first quiz about my coworkers on Friday was also manageable.

I am looking forward to enjoy a drink with my colleagues on the upcoming Friday and I´m quite confident that we will have a great time together. 

Friday, February 20, 2015

SEA’s record breaking Team Event



One team, one room, one mission and one hour! – The Live Escape Game
For our first team event of 2015 we went back in time to 1970’s DDR, and ended up trapped inside a secret prison. We had only 66 minutes to get our dear colleague Morten out of solitary confinement and all of us out of the prison. Clues, codes, and keys were hidden all over the place. Could we make it out in time, or be trapped forever? Since SEA consist of only skillful masterminds we managed to break out of there in record time! 


The prison was located in an old bunker with original furniture from the DDR era, which really made us feel like we were in the 1970’s. Hints and clues were everywhere, and what a puzzle it was to link it all together. Every single little object could be essential for our escape. There was a constant count-down on a screen, making us more and more frustrated as the time was running out and we still hadn’t solved the mission. But what seemed to be an insolvable puzzle was solved in only 59:35 minutes by putting our highly intelligent brains together, and only a bit (ok, maybe a lot) of help from the game-masters. 


Personally, I think we must have looked like a bunch of confused chickens bumping into each other while occasionally squeaking because we found something interesting on the ground. I even almost screamed when I saw the old prison guard sitting around in a dark cell (in my defence, he was a skeleton). But hey, we broke the previous record anyway! 


We dare you to beat our time! http://exit-game.de/engl/


Written by Sol (SEA)