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.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
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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