Following is somthing I blogged an year before.
.....only that I'm publishing it now...
Few of my perceptions have changed.
.....I've evolved a little and I've also become hard.
Few of the people in it have changed.
.....some have tamed themselves and some have become even rigid...
Nevertheless, these are words of my heart, which only a few near and dear could hear, in my actions and frustated looks.........
Many people told me to try learning demarcating professional and personal life.........
Some have advised me to change my work place...my role, my job and if possible my profession.....!
I've switched my job, which was major contributor to my physical and mental headaches... and I'm due in course of learning gymnastics of life-work balance....
Thanks to friends and family, who have endured me in bad moods and disappointing companionship.... without you guys, I'd now be in a mental asylum.
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“You don’t do anything in that system. You don’t know about that. Some one else will take care.”
“Have you any imagination of how the situation on site is?”
“You don’t understand the magnitude of the impact, nor do you understand the nature.”
“It’s a nice experience to be at the client.”
Come on guys… give me a break!
If you think that I’m not fit for doing something, teach me how to do it. Just because you’ve learnt it the hard-way, should everyone else do the same? Others may, may be out of interest or coz of their zest to learn and experiment new ways or to bang impression.
If a person has none of these factors that can inspire him doing the job, then he would obviously end-up doing nothing. If you can inspire him the way he receives, do that….else you teach him how to do that and what’s its significance in the client’s business and in-turn ours. It’s not just enough to keep bugging that he should do and keep doing more.
Agreed that there are reference-manuals for everything, but there are a hell lot of things which are learnt at run-time. Experiences are rare and not always repetitive. You can’t expect someone to read some documents and gain the same expertise than listening to a person who had hands-on experience on the same work for quite a while.
If you think that I’m not fit for being on site and dealing with the client, then I’m not even fit for sitting off-shore and doing anything that would impact his business. Some convey their interests verbally and some convey the same through their work and actions. When you read the language and are extracting the maximum out of someone, while that person banks on getting something in return; doesn’t this hide-n-seek end one day or the other?
Hiding the facts is as good as baiting. If the fish in a pond realize that the bait has a hidden hook, they will eat only algae and see weeds, and stop getting trapped; there is no way the fisherman can complain on them. Just because the fish are in the pond underneath doesn’t mean that they should always fall for his traits.
On the day when the donkey realizes that it has to carry loads of salt across the stream only to get beaten-up in the evening for tampering the floor with its muddy feet, it will eventually take a bath in the stream and deliver the empty salt-bags. Is it the mistake of the donkey for not being honest or is it the mistake of the master for blaming its untidiness after making it walk the muddy-bank with the load on its back?
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“Your leave….let me check once again and confirm. Anyway it is only tomorrow!”
I really don’t understand till date, how the hell someone can make such a statement. Either your boss is bossing on you, doesn’t want to grant you a leave or just taking an example of a sadist boss he/she possibly ever had. Would the boss be in a position to plan a travel if he/she were in such a position? Possibly not and probably won’t.
“If I don’t approve your leave, you’ll have a loss-of-pay.”
I was utterly shocked to hear this from one of my bosses. Was it to make me understand that one should always communicate anything and everything to his boss? It sounded to me just that I had a boss and have to obey whatever is his/her instruction, cater to his interests and ask nothing in return.
On yet another situation where-in I was about to travel to home that weekend, I was told “...we’ll have a meeting with your lead and decide whether you can take leave….” by some person who voluntarily declared that I should report to him. I dint try finding out if he was trying to be over-proactive in getting done something over-night or if my boss was trying to indirectly ask me to cancel my leave and stay-back to work over the weekend.
Everyone has a factor that satisfies him. Whether you satisfy that factor, probe him to do something that helps gain satisfaction, or otherwise get him out of the race. When you know very well that a horse is blind and deaf, then there is no point putting it in a race; and later on whipping it for not winning the race.
One time someone coordinating me told “You have been working on this for the last two days, without a way out. I think you should take help someone who knows to code. I’m no expert in coding or otherwise I’d have done it.”
Yes my boss….! That’s what I’ve been asking for a long time. If you know very well that I’m leading you nowhere, why ride the same horse? Go and get a new horse, with the same color, fitness and pace you are in search of. Or if you want me to learn it overnight and finish the job, while I’m doing other things as well, then why cant you do the same? When you can give so much of an advice to someone, can’t you think if the same applies to you?
I don’t suppose that a boss ever has the right to ask his subordinates to work over-time or on weekends if he/she promptly asks them to appear in office by 9:00. Also if the boss wishes to get the work done by the End-of-Day, first-of-the-first EOD should be defined. Also the work should be entrusted before a considerable time, as they are also human but not a computer. If the boss expects the work to be done on a fly, then probably the work should be entrusted to the subordinate after three or four years, when the subordinate steps in his own shows.
So far, I've served four bosses directly.... and another four indirectly....
It was never the same, as with the other.
Some were extremely supporting/guiding/helping and others were exactly the opposite.
While some were quantitative not only in the quantiy of work they load, but also appraising the job..... others were so unrewarding for anything that was done...
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I read somewhere - "People leave managers not companies".
I do not need to comment on it. Everyone who knew me for the last 4 years, and how I've changed in these years, good or bad, know it very well.
I've worked for an organization for 3 years, with only one thing wishing in return - an opportunity too work on site, with the client. When I finally realized that I was becoming a piece of commedy for everyone around, realizing how well the organization is making use of me, I couldn't stand any longer. Though I knew very well that I was killing the golden-goose to free myself from this prison, I chose to live the life of a happy beggar, than living a troubled king on a stack of golden eggs in a prison.
My only intention penning these words is not to criticize anyone. I know very well that even after proper feedback they do not intend to change. And I do not expect any changes with some words written in a blog, by someone who doesn't matter anything to them.
My only hope is to urge everyone not to be hard and harsh on someone.
Today it is someone. Tomorrow, it can be yourself.
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