REAL CASE

HI EVERYBODY!!

I know I have abandoned I little bit the blog, but November was crazy and I even missed 2 classes (lucky me I didn’t miss any other before…..). The point is that  after stalking your blogs, I saw most of you have written about a real case were you had a negotiation, so that’s what im going to do.

Honestly, I have had many negotiations in my life (typical ones with my parents for instance), but I think that since I moved from Spain, I don’t need to do now that much… or at least, the ones I have now are not that serious…. For example, here inn TUT I always have the same “discussion” in whatsapp with my friends: where are we going to have lunch?  Some prefer Newton, but others don’t like the rice there, other are more Hertsi people as they have the vegan food….and bla bla bla. But honestly, we never agree and some time we just split (so sad….).

Maybe an important negotiation about an “stupic” topic was the time to do skype with my boss in Australia….there are +9h of difference there… and I need to report them by skype what I am doing, how and why… at the beginning, as their worktime is in the morning, I had to stay awake till 1am (in the best situations, cause sometimes even later) to do it…if you also consider that it last 40 minutes… I went to sleep around 2 (or after), and next day I had class…

Because of that, I just told my boss what was my situation here. At the beginning, though she was very polite, she tried to explain me that I was working with the Australian University and that she couldn’t change the timetable there… I was a little bit disappointed, but I repplied her that I wasn’t saying to do it in what it would be a “normal hour” for me….just that sometimes I would prefer to do it in their last moment of office time that for me would be in the morning and that, obviously, I wanted not to do it when for me was 3 or 4 am. We shared our timetable and at the end, we find a better solution for the skypes. Sometimes we still need to do it that late, but now she even agrees to do it in her afternoon after the office time or even on Saturdays. So I think it wasn’t a bad negotiation.