Oh well, at least you didnt work for the Mafia...
Be me, just out of University in Palermo, CS degree and I am off to Malta to get an IELTS.
Being there I start to send CVs around, I was working as a freelancer before, I never got hired officially, I was just doing a lot of small websites here and there.
Malta, being a fiscal heaven, and who says otherwise is a liar, is a giant hub for all the disgusting companies, like betting companies (even though they like to define themselves as "igaming companies") or fintech.
A lot of people were interested in a junior, and this company too... a betting company one.
I hate betting, I really do, never placed a bet or played poker online and crap like that, I always though it was a dirty environment and I never wanted to do anything with it.
But I was a junior, and the money were good, and I got said that everyone that works in betting should go through a deep history check, to make sure they have nothing to do with crime or anything.
In a month I moved and I worked there for 1 year and 6 month. Terrible environment.
"this is not a fucking software company, we dont care about quality, just fix things and delivery"
You could hear people screaming on meetings things like "I dont give a shit about it, if they win(the customers) we lose money."
The whole company ignored the IT department, we just got patted on the shoulder once in a while and forgotten for months.
I was going to change, going through interviews processes with a lot of companies, so I had decided to change.
Until one day... I go to work as usual, and there was no one... weird.
I sit and start to work on my task anyway... in one hour a guy comes along and start to take away all the laptops, and asks me "whatcha doing here?"
I am like "working..."
He is like "Did you see the news on tv yesterday?"
I "well no, I do not watch TV, especially italian tv since I am abroad"
"well they arrested everyone"
I search the name of the company... BOOM!
they arrested all the managers because they were doing money laundering for the Ndrangheta (Calabria Mafia).
So yeah, I quit the same day.
And since then things just got better. But was a terrible experience that made me feel like I should listen to my feelings a bit more when I choose a job, and avoid following just the money.
Haha damn! I live in Malta, and I never knew about this. Like you, I don't watch TV or follow Maltese news. Just looked it up on google and damn, this is recent.
Oh well, at least you didnt work for the Mafia...
Be me, just out of University in Palermo, CS degree and I am off to Malta to get an IELTS.
Being there I start to send CVs around, I was working as a freelancer before, I never got hired officially, I was just doing a lot of small websites here and there.
Malta, being a fiscal heaven, and who says otherwise is a liar, is a giant hub for all the disgusting companies, like betting companies (even though they like to define themselves as "igaming companies") or fintech.
A lot of people were interested in a junior, and this company too... a betting company one.
I hate betting, I really do, never placed a bet or played poker online and crap like that, I always though it was a dirty environment and I never wanted to do anything with it.
But I was a junior, and the money were good, and I got said that everyone that works in betting should go through a deep history check, to make sure they have nothing to do with crime or anything.
In a month I moved and I worked there for 1 year and 6 month. Terrible environment.
"this is not a fucking software company, we dont care about quality, just fix things and delivery"
You could hear people screaming on meetings things like "I dont give a shit about it, if they win(the customers) we lose money."
The whole company ignored the IT department, we just got patted on the shoulder once in a while and forgotten for months.
I was going to change, going through interviews processes with a lot of companies, so I had decided to change.
Until one day... I go to work as usual, and there was no one... weird.
I sit and start to work on my task anyway... in one hour a guy comes along and start to take away all the laptops, and asks me "whatcha doing here?"
I am like "working..."
He is like "Did you see the news on tv yesterday?"
I "well no, I do not watch TV, especially italian tv since I am abroad"
"well they arrested everyone"
I search the name of the company... BOOM!
they arrested all the managers because they were doing money laundering for the Ndrangheta (Calabria Mafia).
So yeah, I quit the same day.
And since then things just got better. But was a terrible experience that made me feel like I should listen to my feelings a bit more when I choose a job, and avoid following just the money.
I think I might have won this thread :D
Haha damn! I live in Malta, and I never knew about this. Like you, I don't watch TV or follow Maltese news. Just looked it up on google and damn, this is recent.
it is not really, it was 2015, it is almost 3 years ago
yea I later found that out. The news post i looked at was 2017. But it was a different one.
timesofmalta.com/articles/view/201...
timesofmalta.com/articles/view/201...
OMG! This looks like a film plot
if you want to buy it, you need to make me an offer I can't refuse