Having cursed in the first post of the year..2011..this is kind of an attempt to lighten up the mood; through a new blog and some reminiscence.
I guess it was by mistake, that we received a discount coupon from Domino's which had some real offers. The coupon we received, when we enquired, came to know, is not the ones that every one receives and are sent to the loyal customers via courier. We were lucky!
I had prepared khichdi that day in afternoon and being a khichdi lover I overate and slept for good 4 hours. I got up at 7pm and I was all hungry again and that's when Vibhu and I decided to use up the lucky coupon. We order a 'Gourmet' and 'Farm fresh' pizzas..of which one was free, courtesy coupon. Order came on time, alas! we missed the chance for free pizza. We paid and opened the box to find that we were delivered pizza of same kind...I called Domino's guy to tell them of their mistake..and they promised to deliver right order in next 30 mins. We started to gorge on one of the pizzas..smell was irrestibale and in no time it was over while there was still some time left for the replacement pizza. We waited..waited and waited before we opened the pizza we had kept for replacement...I called up Domino's and demanded a free pizza since they didn't provide replacemnt in 30 mins. To my surprise, I won the third (replacemnt) pizza for free!! It was one hell of a night..we had 3 pizzas for the price of one and we managed to keep the coupon intact on which we had asked for the offer!
Later in the night..as my facebook status said..Vibhu and I went for victory lap to juhu, bandra, marine drive, aarey colony and powai lake! btw..aarey at 4 was as fun and chilly as it has always been...Fuck! was the only word that came out of my mouth all the way through dark..in a way dense and very cold forest! It was fun.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Fucked up!
I'm so fucked up at this moment because of this behench*d bihari girl!..she's sick. I'm not sure why am I tolerating all the shit from her for past 3 months now. She irritates me with the regular humming of some hindi scores..i agree she has a nice voice..but what the fuck! You are not supposed to sing in your work bay!
What happened just now, totaly blew my mind off..the other way. We were assigned some task..and we had to provide the details EOD(end of the day). Being an intelligent foolish I decided to tell her the best way to provide the detail and seek answers to any queries, and being ignorant bitch she didn't pay heed to them. Consequence is I'm writing this blog all fuming, justified in every way.
I want perfection in my work..the 'work' work..and not other stuff! I can't and will not tolerate any slippages on that.
The other reason for my finally bursting is because she has been eating my share of performance points in the past, plus, I had to share credit for the work I did sitting continuously for 12 hours and I skipping my lunch for a month while she was all bakchodi.
I guess I'm done abusing..the bihari gal will have to do some listening, all in corporate lingo, of what I just said above. For actual 'lessons' I would recommend this post.
What happened just now, totaly blew my mind off..the other way. We were assigned some task..and we had to provide the details EOD(end of the day). Being an intelligent foolish I decided to tell her the best way to provide the detail and seek answers to any queries, and being ignorant bitch she didn't pay heed to them. Consequence is I'm writing this blog all fuming, justified in every way.
I want perfection in my work..the 'work' work..and not other stuff! I can't and will not tolerate any slippages on that.
The other reason for my finally bursting is because she has been eating my share of performance points in the past, plus, I had to share credit for the work I did sitting continuously for 12 hours and I skipping my lunch for a month while she was all bakchodi.
I guess I'm done abusing..the bihari gal will have to do some listening, all in corporate lingo, of what I just said above. For actual 'lessons' I would recommend this post.
Monday, December 13, 2010
This day - Today, Dec 13, 2010
I was so charged when I got up this morning that I had decided to write about how wonderful my day was. And here I'm writing the content with sleepy eyes and not much of a interest. Reason being overworked, over tensed and what not!
When I woke up I knew what was in my kitty today and I had estimated the time it would take to finish my task and do miscellaneous though important organizational work. I had planned to start with learning 'Python', a language that might give an edge over others in coming interviews. But could do none..besides doing my work I had to do other's job as well. Shuchi is sick and did not come so I had to take up her's as well. On the flipside, people(and I) may think, it is a good oppotunity to learn new things, but UAT is no good time for experimentation. I had my time for it now it's passed. Now it's either do the thing or get some anal-ysis of work.
It could have been worse had i not been fed with some great namkeen, sweets and chcoloates from various people who came back from their vacations. At work I also got unprecedented support from Siebel application team. Thanks a ton guys! Without your support I would have vanished. - I took a pause midway to thank Siebel guys using office portal -
Another pause...got a call from my manager..regarding an email we have just received from a senior executive! Super awesome day! I say so because I feel proud and good when I get into this pressure cooker situation..the only problem is..most of the time I land unprepared.
This is a very abruot ending I know but I'll get the other bad things happened in the day with something good to happen.
When I woke up I knew what was in my kitty today and I had estimated the time it would take to finish my task and do miscellaneous though important organizational work. I had planned to start with learning 'Python', a language that might give an edge over others in coming interviews. But could do none..besides doing my work I had to do other's job as well. Shuchi is sick and did not come so I had to take up her's as well. On the flipside, people(and I) may think, it is a good oppotunity to learn new things, but UAT is no good time for experimentation. I had my time for it now it's passed. Now it's either do the thing or get some anal-ysis of work.
It could have been worse had i not been fed with some great namkeen, sweets and chcoloates from various people who came back from their vacations. At work I also got unprecedented support from Siebel application team. Thanks a ton guys! Without your support I would have vanished. - I took a pause midway to thank Siebel guys using office portal -
Another pause...got a call from my manager..regarding an email we have just received from a senior executive! Super awesome day! I say so because I feel proud and good when I get into this pressure cooker situation..the only problem is..most of the time I land unprepared.
This is a very abruot ending I know but I'll get the other bad things happened in the day with something good to happen.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
What I achieved today!
I have found a song which got erased from my phone's memory long back : Sarina Paris' - Look at us!
Just a second ago I realised why I got an idea to get this song..somehow. Last night, I had a dream, I saw shukla, she's been in my mind for some reason for past couple of days. This song, I must have mentioend in previous blogs, reminds me of the rain, the meeting with her after very very long period. No wonder why I wanted to hear this song so badly once I woke up this morning. Human brain! I believe I did do some causal analysis!
I've been missing from this page(my blog) for quite a time. Last post was written good 2 months back that too with a depressing content. Lot of good things have hapenned since then! I've been to Delhi twice. I've received 400+ performance points. I probably gained a couple of kilograms. Since McDonalds has opened next to our office...I don't see me loosing any but gaining a few more. I met a wonderful person from US, courtesy - Vibhu's friend's colleague, John Mark. I got a taste of Jagermeister(spelled as, yager-meitzer) or Jager Bomb (Jager + Red Bull) - one word to describe it is-awesome. We've got 8 bit video game to play - Contra/Mario/Pacman/ Duck hunt/ Tennis..I can't name all, the cassette contains staggering 999999 games! And I attended Ruchika's wedding - it tops it all! It is one of the selective pleasure moments. To see a girl who you went to school with, in a wedding dress (as I write, I smile), was an amazing feeling.
Very wonderful things are lined up as well..Year end I'll be in Delhi. I've so many friends to meet I haven't met in a long time. Vijay(friend from Tagore), Selyucus(FAPS), Madhur, Ghosh Vaibhav, Rahul et al. (JIIT). I might give certain interviews too. But for that I need to prepare my resume and I'm off to do that..bbye..Cheers and in John's word - B*******ds. He offered us Jager we offered some Hindi gyan.
Just a second ago I realised why I got an idea to get this song..somehow. Last night, I had a dream, I saw shukla, she's been in my mind for some reason for past couple of days. This song, I must have mentioend in previous blogs, reminds me of the rain, the meeting with her after very very long period. No wonder why I wanted to hear this song so badly once I woke up this morning. Human brain! I believe I did do some causal analysis!
I've been missing from this page(my blog) for quite a time. Last post was written good 2 months back that too with a depressing content. Lot of good things have hapenned since then! I've been to Delhi twice. I've received 400+ performance points. I probably gained a couple of kilograms. Since McDonalds has opened next to our office...I don't see me loosing any but gaining a few more. I met a wonderful person from US, courtesy - Vibhu's friend's colleague, John Mark. I got a taste of Jagermeister(spelled as, yager-meitzer) or Jager Bomb (Jager + Red Bull) - one word to describe it is-awesome. We've got 8 bit video game to play - Contra/Mario/Pacman/ Duck hunt/ Tennis..I can't name all, the cassette contains staggering 999999 games! And I attended Ruchika's wedding - it tops it all! It is one of the selective pleasure moments. To see a girl who you went to school with, in a wedding dress (as I write, I smile), was an amazing feeling.
Very wonderful things are lined up as well..Year end I'll be in Delhi. I've so many friends to meet I haven't met in a long time. Vijay(friend from Tagore), Selyucus(FAPS), Madhur, Ghosh Vaibhav, Rahul et al. (JIIT). I might give certain interviews too. But for that I need to prepare my resume and I'm off to do that..bbye..Cheers and in John's word - B*******ds. He offered us Jager we offered some Hindi gyan.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Tough times at Work
I had been thinking of inking the thought running through my head for a very long time. I could not do it for the simple reason that I'm lazy..for the same reason I missed out on writing about my memorable trip to Solan and later placement in TCS..the whole process. Anyways, I'm writing about the happenings, lately, which I've been thinking to write about since Tuesday, Sept 14th.
Last week on thursday at my work, I was asked to make a tool work, which, actually, I was supposed to use for the testing, once provided built.
I didn't ahve to start from scratch and I had the basic prototype yet I struggled the whole day with query. Ila and Sud provided a great deal of help..without them I would not have moved a single step since the making and working of the tool was all about playing with query and data. I have had bad bad experiences with DBMS, so much so that I was on the verge of being thrown out of Accenture had I not 'asked for help' or re-re-re-exam wouldn't have been simplest. The tool requiring queries and stuff, made the job difficult. My Thursday, last week, was completely devoted to this activity. Siebel team had no work to do on that day..btw post thursday Sept 9th our team size reduced to 3 and has now, reduced to 2, with Dholak being rolled out today. I'll miss her badly. Ab mera khoon kaun jalayega?
I was the only one surviving from the Lodestar and thus started my struggle. Before that..since tool did not complete on Thursday..I was asked to work on the same on Monday as well..while testing environment was down due to data migration. I was loaded with work and Siebel testing team had a good time..no work! Having involved Ila and Sud already so much on Thursday I didnt want to consume their day in something I was assigned to work upon. I had also gained some sense about the approach I was to follow to make the thing work. Thanks to Mori's insight on the query on Thursday evening and discussion with Vibhu later in the night.On the Monday eve..it was a Eureka moment the tool got made..I tested it..it worked fine. I drafted an status email anticpating kind of an 'appreciation'. However I did not get any.
Next day, Tuesday, tough times started. With all the DholakS (singing and poking fucking nose in everything and everytime) and the daunting task for days ahead till today, were a trouble. I was asked to Smoke Test the system plus generate 18 invoices! DholakS as usual didn't have to do anything..at all and they didn't 'do' any either. 5 & 10 DD were done easily and on time before 6:30. With all the invoices remaining to be generated I started working out a 'cycle' so that I used 'Prebilling' lesser number of times. Strategising took a long time and before I could identify the accnounts to include in a cycle or even zero in on accounts, On-shore demanded the status on invoices as they would be running COBRA after a few hours. Hastily I geenrated 2 and used the other 2, generated from the process run earlier in the day. Wednesday's email on Critical path mentioned non-delivery of the said numbber of Invoices from the IDC.
The workload on Tuesday was as much as it used to be when we were team of 8. Probably this was not considered while assigning the task for each day and that's why till yesterday I had 'Everest' to climb alone.
Wednesday and Thurday were some hopeless story, with 16 and 18 to be delivered respecitvely and actual delivery was 11 and 12. On thurday's call I let onshore know about the situation and my points were well taken. It could be my conern for the amount of task assigned and/or Reshma's and Komal's update, to Onshore about my skipping lunch and working late hours to get the invoices done, that I not only got 1/3 of the daily work but also appreciation email! God..I was happy and I thanked Offshore as well as Onshore for recognising my efforts. I am/was happy!
I'll happier if I get rolled off on the scheduled date. God - please make it happpen.
Last week on thursday at my work, I was asked to make a tool work, which, actually, I was supposed to use for the testing, once provided built.
I didn't ahve to start from scratch and I had the basic prototype yet I struggled the whole day with query. Ila and Sud provided a great deal of help..without them I would not have moved a single step since the making and working of the tool was all about playing with query and data. I have had bad bad experiences with DBMS, so much so that I was on the verge of being thrown out of Accenture had I not 'asked for help' or re-re-re-exam wouldn't have been simplest. The tool requiring queries and stuff, made the job difficult. My Thursday, last week, was completely devoted to this activity. Siebel team had no work to do on that day..btw post thursday Sept 9th our team size reduced to 3 and has now, reduced to 2, with Dholak being rolled out today. I'll miss her badly. Ab mera khoon kaun jalayega?
I was the only one surviving from the Lodestar and thus started my struggle. Before that..since tool did not complete on Thursday..I was asked to work on the same on Monday as well..while testing environment was down due to data migration. I was loaded with work and Siebel testing team had a good time..no work! Having involved Ila and Sud already so much on Thursday I didnt want to consume their day in something I was assigned to work upon. I had also gained some sense about the approach I was to follow to make the thing work. Thanks to Mori's insight on the query on Thursday evening and discussion with Vibhu later in the night.On the Monday eve..it was a Eureka moment the tool got made..I tested it..it worked fine. I drafted an status email anticpating kind of an 'appreciation'. However I did not get any.
Next day, Tuesday, tough times started. With all the DholakS (singing and poking fucking nose in everything and everytime) and the daunting task for days ahead till today, were a trouble. I was asked to Smoke Test the system plus generate 18 invoices! DholakS as usual didn't have to do anything..at all and they didn't 'do' any either. 5 & 10 DD were done easily and on time before 6:30. With all the invoices remaining to be generated I started working out a 'cycle' so that I used 'Prebilling' lesser number of times. Strategising took a long time and before I could identify the accnounts to include in a cycle or even zero in on accounts, On-shore demanded the status on invoices as they would be running COBRA after a few hours. Hastily I geenrated 2 and used the other 2, generated from the process run earlier in the day. Wednesday's email on Critical path mentioned non-delivery of the said numbber of Invoices from the IDC.
The workload on Tuesday was as much as it used to be when we were team of 8. Probably this was not considered while assigning the task for each day and that's why till yesterday I had 'Everest' to climb alone.
Wednesday and Thurday were some hopeless story, with 16 and 18 to be delivered respecitvely and actual delivery was 11 and 12. On thurday's call I let onshore know about the situation and my points were well taken. It could be my conern for the amount of task assigned and/or Reshma's and Komal's update, to Onshore about my skipping lunch and working late hours to get the invoices done, that I not only got 1/3 of the daily work but also appreciation email! God..I was happy and I thanked Offshore as well as Onshore for recognising my efforts. I am/was happy!
I'll happier if I get rolled off on the scheduled date. God - please make it happpen.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Threefold Dilemma
I start this post being undecisive about the title..maybe I'll find it during the course of this writing. I remeber there are a few posts those are rotting in the 'Draft' folder, unnamed and unpublished. They might have fortune change today..God knows.
I've a lot of things runnning through my mind, probably because a lot has happened, a lot is scheduled to happen and some that I was told, may happen.
I got promoted last week, great! I'm happy but my rating sucks! I didn't slog my ass more than 12 hours a day or 10 months to get a 'CC'. I proabably didn't realize the bad-ness of my rating because it was capsuled in the sweet coating of a promotion and I had no idea of the impact it would be having on the money I would be making. Since I know now, the difference, it troubles me. I didn't get time to talk to my TL and thus, my manager, about this. My TL was not available for past 2 weeks because of ill health of her child, maybe Monday could be the day.
There has been no developments, as such, on my plans of getting transfered to Delhi(as if it is in my hands). This fucking project is getting delayed day by day and so are my transfer processing date.
The other day when I walked up to my manager to ask him to look for a project in Delhi till the time I serve this project, to my surprise, he offered me an onshore oppotunity. I was happy hearing that. I replied with a 'Yes!' the next day, since I asked for a day to ponder over it. The reply I got for an enthusiastic 'Yes!' was a faint 'Ok' and an unconvincing nod. That has got me thinking whether it is a 'lollypop' or something to defer my plans of going to Delhi, or there is actually some opportunity. I hope there should be some. I can't miss going to Delhi though , so, I'm going to ask for a transfer and might go onsite while I'll be Delhi. Sounds great!
I was adviced by a fellow roommate, a techie turned consultant, to hone my (non-existing) skills in Siebel. Being in a testing team, I don't have much exposure to this technology and I've been doing Lodestar testing almost all year around but hearing him say Siebel being a 'Hot Technology' I'm raring to try my hands on it with whatever time I've left in my project.
There is a 'threefold dilemma' though, the onsite opportunity that I mentioned above is in the Lodestar. If I choose to go ahead with Siebel, I might get (huge, as they say) returns in 2 years time but if I choose Lodestar and onsite happens, that would be great. In both of the said scenarios MBA is going to take to a backseat..I don't want that. I love Corporate and I love being a consultant. MBA is the only thing that can help me get that sooner. So, the bettter idea could be that I do nothing but take transfer to Delhi, do what I do i.e. Testing and later take a MBA degree and become a hard core consultant..then I can take as much onshore and as much traveling I want.
Last option sounds perfect keeping current situation develpoing in my hometown. Politics is dirty. Very soon, I hope never, I might be doing something which is not thought of and very different. That time has to decide, right now I won't prefer coming out of my comfort zone. If I'm forced to do so..uncomfort-ability would prevail then, for a long long time.
I've a lot of things runnning through my mind, probably because a lot has happened, a lot is scheduled to happen and some that I was told, may happen.
I got promoted last week, great! I'm happy but my rating sucks! I didn't slog my ass more than 12 hours a day or 10 months to get a 'CC'. I proabably didn't realize the bad-ness of my rating because it was capsuled in the sweet coating of a promotion and I had no idea of the impact it would be having on the money I would be making. Since I know now, the difference, it troubles me. I didn't get time to talk to my TL and thus, my manager, about this. My TL was not available for past 2 weeks because of ill health of her child, maybe Monday could be the day.
There has been no developments, as such, on my plans of getting transfered to Delhi(as if it is in my hands). This fucking project is getting delayed day by day and so are my transfer processing date.
The other day when I walked up to my manager to ask him to look for a project in Delhi till the time I serve this project, to my surprise, he offered me an onshore oppotunity. I was happy hearing that. I replied with a 'Yes!' the next day, since I asked for a day to ponder over it. The reply I got for an enthusiastic 'Yes!' was a faint 'Ok' and an unconvincing nod. That has got me thinking whether it is a 'lollypop' or something to defer my plans of going to Delhi, or there is actually some opportunity. I hope there should be some. I can't miss going to Delhi though , so, I'm going to ask for a transfer and might go onsite while I'll be Delhi. Sounds great!
I was adviced by a fellow roommate, a techie turned consultant, to hone my (non-existing) skills in Siebel. Being in a testing team, I don't have much exposure to this technology and I've been doing Lodestar testing almost all year around but hearing him say Siebel being a 'Hot Technology' I'm raring to try my hands on it with whatever time I've left in my project.
There is a 'threefold dilemma' though, the onsite opportunity that I mentioned above is in the Lodestar. If I choose to go ahead with Siebel, I might get (huge, as they say) returns in 2 years time but if I choose Lodestar and onsite happens, that would be great. In both of the said scenarios MBA is going to take to a backseat..I don't want that. I love Corporate and I love being a consultant. MBA is the only thing that can help me get that sooner. So, the bettter idea could be that I do nothing but take transfer to Delhi, do what I do i.e. Testing and later take a MBA degree and become a hard core consultant..then I can take as much onshore and as much traveling I want.
Last option sounds perfect keeping current situation develpoing in my hometown. Politics is dirty. Very soon, I hope never, I might be doing something which is not thought of and very different. That time has to decide, right now I won't prefer coming out of my comfort zone. If I'm forced to do so..uncomfort-ability would prevail then, for a long long time.
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