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My bike was stolen recently from my building and I filed an online report for stolen bike with the Rahmen number . I received a case number from police but when I submitted that to my insurance , they said they need a proper document with the frame number of the bike, I asked the same over email to the police officer handling the case and they replied this:

“der Vorgang ist hier bereits abgeschlossen und an die Amtsanwaltschaft Berlin übersandt worden. Die Mitteilung des Geschäftszeichens (Vordruck K400) kann daher nicht mehr ausgestellt werden. Ein Justizaktenzeichen der Amtsanwaltschaft Berlin liegt noch nicht vor.

Für Ihre Versicherung reicht die Angabe der Vorgangsnummer 2xxxx ggf. kann Ihre Versicherung dann Akteneinsicht beantragen. Dies ist gängige Praxis.”

The insurance company once again rejected this as a police report. What is the usual process here, can i go to the police station and ask them for a copy of the report?

FYI: it was a jobrrad bike and insurance is handled by assona.

My bike was stolen recently from my building and I filed an online report for stolen bike with the Rahmen number . I received a case number from police but when I submitted that to my insurance , they said they need a proper document with the frame number of the bike, I asked the same over email to the police officer handling the case and they replied this:

“der Vorgang ist hier bereits abgeschlossen und an die Amtsanwaltschaft Berlin übersandt worden. Die Mitteilung des Geschäftszeichens (Vordruck K400) kann daher nicht mehr ausgestellt werden. Ein Justizaktenzeichen der Amtsanwaltschaft Berlin liegt noch nicht vor.

Für Ihre Versicherung reicht die Angabe der Vorgangsnummer 2xxxx ggf. kann Ihre Versicherung dann Akteneinsicht beantragen. Dies ist gängige Praxis.”

The insurance company once again rejected this as a police report. What is the usual process here, can i go to the police station and ask them for a copy of the report?

FYI: it was a jobrrad bike and insurance is handled by assona.

I’m a Level 9 based in a European onshore location and the expectation is that I independently handle both technical delivery and stakeholder consulting.

The challenge is that in my current project, I’m leading a track where my actual expertise is quite a bit below what was sold to the client. Expectations are extremely high, and I’m regularly working overtime just to close the knowledge gap and keep things moving.
What made me question things recently was an interaction with a Level 5 from a nearshore delivery center. He’s in a very similar role and has supposedly been delivering comparable work for some time, but he was asking me what I would consider very basic, entry-level questions. It genuinely surprised me because I expected someone in that position to be much more comfortable with those topics.
On the offshore side (ATCI) this isn’t just my experience—many colleagues have said something similar. Often it feels difficult to communicate requirements beyond the literal ask. For example, if I request a report containing a set of IDs, I’ll get exactly those IDs back, but no consideration for including related fields that would make the report actually useful (e.g., corresponding names or descriptions). That’s a simplified example, but the pattern is that I often spend more time breaking requirements down step-by-step than I do reviewing the output.

What’s frustrating is not the lack of knowledge itself, but the apparent lack of ownership or proactive thinking. Instead of challenging requirements, suggesting improvements, or thinking one step ahead, many people seem to operate strictly within the boundaries of what was explicitly requested.

To be clear, this definitely doesn’t apply to everyone. I’ve worked with some incredibly talented offshore and nearshore colleagues. But in my experience, those people feel more like exceptions than the norm.

Curious whether others have observed something similar, or if this is just a consequence of the particular projects and teams I’ve been exposed to.

I always get to hear about flags , but how do we really know if we were flagged for promotion other than trusting the People lead or project lead?

Also I have a feeling the current system of performance evaluation rewards social climbers .. but maybe that’s just how my group feels like.. what about others?

Also how do People leads think about this process.