Thursday 9th February 2012

And so we near the end of an eventful week here at Vestas. I have heard for now that my job is safe, or should be; but then nothing can be assured today. All redundancies, we were told, had been agreed, and we should move on from this point. And then late on Tuesday night our new president was fired. I say new president as he had been in post for less than two weeks after being transferred from Northern Europe division. We had a webcast from him last week; he seemed excited and up for a challenge, as we all are.

And now he is gone and we have no president.

Again.

Quite why he was fired, or who will replace him; we don’t know. What we do know is that we have two orders signed and sealed. And myself and my boss are working hard getting the Quality policy right as we near the time when work will begin on the two projects. Those two projects will go ahead, and for now we assume that we will be part of them, as we know our new client sees quality as being very important.

We shall see.

As for Vestas; their Q4 results made grim reading; instead of losing €40mil, we lost nearer to €160mil. The stock market in sunny Denmark was not happy, and heads were to roll, and members of the executive offered to resign or not go for re-election at the next AGM.

As for me, the figures seem so huge, and the talk quite financially technical, that I have to believe our CEO knows what he is doing after all, and knows how to turn things around. That I did not get my cards this week was a relief, although some good friends in Denmark got theirs and are leaving, their department being replaced with a call centre in India.

Of course!

So, we go on, working as normal; preparing documents and schedules hoping that the future is going to be better than this week.