After a long gap because of hectic work, I forced myself to write a blog. This is all about the Loyalty of the employees and the treatment from employers.
My siblings and many of my seniors in the office had advised me several times, NOT to Love the Company. Love only your work(And many of you would have heard this). I never took this serious or even cared about it. But in the recent past, I saw in real time how my friend(colleague-Senior Software Engineer) have been cheaply relieved from my concern.
It's not just one case. But this have happened to many others in several companies. I am not writing this since he is my friend. But just wanna share this as many of us doesn't even realize the Other face of the employer. YES this is true.
I know about his technical stuff and attitude right from my previous concern. Just to describe him in short, good human with sound technical knowledge. He always handle things polite and in a very professional and diplomatic way. He had worked and developed crucial projects for my current employer with putting lot of extra efforts. He took up the responsibility of delivering my current employer's first major project and delivered it successful. Instantly he got many appreciation mails and rewards for that.
He lost his goodwill with the concern at the time of appraisal. And the employers were NOT able to get his extra efforts. Employers started implementing rules like work timings and e.t.c which were never before implemented. But he(my friend) often used to be late to office, and he has NO good reason for this(But works more than 9 hrs a day in an average). As a result, the goodwill between the employee and employer got ruined further. He opted out and got good offers. Finally the company issued him a relieving letter without a company logo or header on that. Also they purposefully mentioned the following statement in his relieving letter. "Worked as a part of Development Team as Developer(Company Title: Software Engineer from 01-01-2009 to 31-12-2009 and Senior Software Engineer from 01-01-2010 to now)".But the actual fact, his role was Team Lead. They sent an another separate e-mail about his behaviors in the office which was SO silly and cheap. Whatever may be the reason, this is really a BAD way to relieve a resource.
Now the point here is, the loyalty shown by an employee for an employer is never matched or even respected. Never work, sacrificing your time with family, friends and your interests, as they were also part of your life.
Try to follow the famous saying "Work while you work and Play while you play."
Also make sure to allocate time for self learning or training. If it's an eight hours job, try to allocate at least half an hour to 1 hour for your self training. That will help you a LOT than working more than 12 hrs for your employer(seeking or anticipating just an On-site or better appraisal). Don't get emotionally attached to the concern. Just to remind you, you are yet another employee to them.
But it doesn't mean, you should not work all the time. Manage your time efficiently and work smart. Actually this inculcates the habit of being perfect with smart work. Plan your tasks, and work concentrated. Even this yields you a good respect.
Having all these said, I too had made many of these mistakes in my career. But mistake makes the man perfect. Nowadays I'm trying to free myself and being cautious, NOT to repeat the same mistakes in the future. Planning to be in at office by 9.30am, work efficiently and to be out of office at 6.30pm.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
My Niece and Nephew
Let me first introduce them here to all. RIDHI my niece and PRANAV my nephew. As kids were so mischievous in their own way, these guys were no exceptions from them.
Ridhi acts like so calm girl but NOT really. Her smile and eyes are the best. Her world consists of her mom, dad and grandma. But whenever I enter their home, she weeps for at least half an hour, thinking that I am a stranger and gonna share space with her world. I often get her some toys or dresses and till now, she has NOT got any of them from my hands. But after half an hour, she will stop weeping and will start to play with the toys.
This is the most convincing act I will do. I will start their car and put it in reverse gear. She walks down towards the door steps and I will pick her from there. She thinks me as a driver for their car. Then she will start commanding me to start the car and take her for an outing. I will do so. She will stand in my lap and will start enjoying the sight seeing. She will keep her hand on the steering and will start thinking that she is driving the car. That will be the happiest moment for her(also for me).
To say about Pranav, this guy would be highly talkative as my younger sister used to do. He will say something or the other that we could never understand. He will be so active and busy with chewing something in his mouth. He never stays in a place. If I play with him for 15 mins, thats it. I am done for the day. I will get tired as I would have done 15 minutes of gymming.
To make him calm, I will turn on the laptop and play the "Vaaraan Vaaraan Poochandi"(A famous Tamil song for kids) video from Youtube. They have smoothly mixed the song with the Lion King animation movie clips. But even here, he will be jumping into the keypads with full enthu to press something on the other. If I restrict him from doing that he will start shouting at me.
This is the worst part he did, but I enjoyed it very much. He took my phone and started to roll it over the walls thinking its a hotwheel toy and by God's sake my phone screen was covered with scratch guard. And Ridhi is no way less than him. She took my sister's cell and dropped it into tumbler of water. She continuously dropped the cell in and out for some time and by the time my sister realized that it was her cell phone, she was too late.
Kids were always special. Both of them have some common characteristics. Once I tried to remove her T-Shirt as it was wet, she wanted to remove it by herself. She desperately tried to remove the T-Shirt for more than 45 minutes. I was watching her keenly! In-between she never gave up or got tired of it. Also she was not allowing even my sister to come near her. And finally she removed her T-Shirt off and started crawling towards her barbie.
I was wondering how she did that. She didn't know that she has done something great for her age and took it so simple and normal without any pride. This was one such moment, I realized I had learned something from them. Challenges has to be faced with your best efforts, and achievements will follow you. Also NOT to allow the achievements to go into your head and move forward to take up the next challenge. I always personally feel that kids were good source of motivation and inspiration.
And finally, I have seen many times my sister and my mom used to sing some songs like "Laali laali, Aararo" while they were trying to make Pranav sleep. Once I tried the same to make him sleep. From that day, he seems to show a keen interest in getting away from me when I sing, but I think that is because of the bad acoustics. Kids have good memory too.
Ridhi acts like so calm girl but NOT really. Her smile and eyes are the best. Her world consists of her mom, dad and grandma. But whenever I enter their home, she weeps for at least half an hour, thinking that I am a stranger and gonna share space with her world. I often get her some toys or dresses and till now, she has NOT got any of them from my hands. But after half an hour, she will stop weeping and will start to play with the toys.
This is the most convincing act I will do. I will start their car and put it in reverse gear. She walks down towards the door steps and I will pick her from there. She thinks me as a driver for their car. Then she will start commanding me to start the car and take her for an outing. I will do so. She will stand in my lap and will start enjoying the sight seeing. She will keep her hand on the steering and will start thinking that she is driving the car. That will be the happiest moment for her(also for me).
To say about Pranav, this guy would be highly talkative as my younger sister used to do. He will say something or the other that we could never understand. He will be so active and busy with chewing something in his mouth. He never stays in a place. If I play with him for 15 mins, thats it. I am done for the day. I will get tired as I would have done 15 minutes of gymming.
To make him calm, I will turn on the laptop and play the "Vaaraan Vaaraan Poochandi"(A famous Tamil song for kids) video from Youtube. They have smoothly mixed the song with the Lion King animation movie clips. But even here, he will be jumping into the keypads with full enthu to press something on the other. If I restrict him from doing that he will start shouting at me.
This is the worst part he did, but I enjoyed it very much. He took my phone and started to roll it over the walls thinking its a hotwheel toy and by God's sake my phone screen was covered with scratch guard. And Ridhi is no way less than him. She took my sister's cell and dropped it into tumbler of water. She continuously dropped the cell in and out for some time and by the time my sister realized that it was her cell phone, she was too late.
Kids were always special. Both of them have some common characteristics. Once I tried to remove her T-Shirt as it was wet, she wanted to remove it by herself. She desperately tried to remove the T-Shirt for more than 45 minutes. I was watching her keenly! In-between she never gave up or got tired of it. Also she was not allowing even my sister to come near her. And finally she removed her T-Shirt off and started crawling towards her barbie.
I was wondering how she did that. She didn't know that she has done something great for her age and took it so simple and normal without any pride. This was one such moment, I realized I had learned something from them. Challenges has to be faced with your best efforts, and achievements will follow you. Also NOT to allow the achievements to go into your head and move forward to take up the next challenge. I always personally feel that kids were good source of motivation and inspiration.
And finally, I have seen many times my sister and my mom used to sing some songs like "Laali laali, Aararo" while they were trying to make Pranav sleep. Once I tried the same to make him sleep. From that day, he seems to show a keen interest in getting away from me when I sing, but I think that is because of the bad acoustics. Kids have good memory too.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Bachelor Life
Hi friends, I was so curious and desperate to write about this a long time ago. But today I have got some time to scribble. And for your information, I am also a bachelor as of now :)
Life:
There is no control imposed to your life. No one to restrict you for Second Shows, Late night chats, Fled light cricket(Street Light Cricket), Midnight bike riding and e.t.c. So don't think that bachelors were always lazy and have no responsibility. We believe in working hard and there is no reason for us to wake up late in morning :)
Friends:
I have invaluable and great friends, who are/were/will always there with me, make me feel super privileged. Also they were my best criticizers. When I reach my home, whatever the situation may be and how pressurized it may be, I will be laughing within a time span of 2 minutes as some will be making fun of some one(and most of the time, the victim would be myself). And some of my friends were reputed teasers/fun makers.
Often we would have small bets, big treats and most of them were for no good reason. If any of you guys visit our room, you will get fainted. But nowadays even our home was properly arranged :) But renting a home for bachelors is like climbing a mountain. That too particularly in apartments or colony houses. We too faced these challenges.
Outing:
The most fun part is the outing. It may be Citi-Centre, Movies, Beach, Spencer's or Restaurants, we will be the most funniest/happiest guys over there. The activities would be Giggling jokes, Cracking comments aloud and Staring at girls. And particularly in beach, our favorites are Annai Fish Center (Delicious Prawn and Fish fry), Murugan Idly kadai, Tandoori Kabab Centre, Fruit Shop, Kwality's Ice cream Parlor. Activities would be running madly to reach some target destination(so called running race), sighting and throwing any one of us into water. There were many funniest moments we had together.
Just to mention a recent happening here:
We were going through the Richie Street, Chennai(The most famous place in Chennai for electronic spares and sales) for cracking the code in the cell that he bought from U.K. We went inside a Cellphone sales and servicing shop. There were many cellphone(actual phones) models displayed over there. My friends Ananth and Kannuduari went to the shop owner and asked "Were these mobiles were real ones or just gadgets? And if they were gadgets how much does this model (Sony W800i) costs?". The owner was done with this question and responded "How dare you guys ask me this question? I have invested 10 lakhs in this shop and you guys just walked in and ask me whether these were just gadgets?". After this, My friend Mari, inquired for the price of a mobile and the owner responded as "Nothing is for sales. Everything were just for show case" and also he murmured something. We guys got the intention of the owner to get us out of the shop and he was not interested in any sale from us. These guys(Ananth and Kannudurai) were laughing aloud and we walked out from the shop. And most of the time we end up like this.
And these were the fun part.
Other Face:
There is also other face of bachelor life. Everyone have their own responsibilities. As I mentioned above, you will get some invaluable friends who would care for your growth. Since everyone is away from home and parents, you would understand the love and affection of them and obviously miss their presence. As we guys start managing our own things we develop the individuality rather in home Mom is behind there to take care for our every single aspect. We start to plan our finances(I am bad at this) and future prospects. We get to know more about our career as many of us are in the same industry. Also there is not much responsibility to think about family, we have ample time to plan and prepare for the career growth and the even by statistics the growth curve will be steep at this level.
And finally to conclude, Bachelor life will be a part and parcel of everyone's life. This time has to be enjoyed, planned well and relished in future. As a bachelor for now, I enjoy each and every moment in this life without any regret. I wish the same for all bachelors.
Life:
There is no control imposed to your life. No one to restrict you for Second Shows, Late night chats, Fled light cricket(Street Light Cricket), Midnight bike riding and e.t.c. So don't think that bachelors were always lazy and have no responsibility. We believe in working hard and there is no reason for us to wake up late in morning :)
Friends:
I have invaluable and great friends, who are/were/will always there with me, make me feel super privileged. Also they were my best criticizers. When I reach my home, whatever the situation may be and how pressurized it may be, I will be laughing within a time span of 2 minutes as some will be making fun of some one(and most of the time, the victim would be myself). And some of my friends were reputed teasers/fun makers.
Often we would have small bets, big treats and most of them were for no good reason. If any of you guys visit our room, you will get fainted. But nowadays even our home was properly arranged :) But renting a home for bachelors is like climbing a mountain. That too particularly in apartments or colony houses. We too faced these challenges.
Outing:
The most fun part is the outing. It may be Citi-Centre, Movies, Beach, Spencer's or Restaurants, we will be the most funniest/happiest guys over there. The activities would be Giggling jokes, Cracking comments aloud and Staring at girls. And particularly in beach, our favorites are Annai Fish Center (Delicious Prawn and Fish fry), Murugan Idly kadai, Tandoori Kabab Centre, Fruit Shop, Kwality's Ice cream Parlor. Activities would be running madly to reach some target destination(so called running race), sighting and throwing any one of us into water. There were many funniest moments we had together.
Just to mention a recent happening here:
We were going through the Richie Street, Chennai(The most famous place in Chennai for electronic spares and sales) for cracking the code in the cell that he bought from U.K. We went inside a Cellphone sales and servicing shop. There were many cellphone(actual phones) models displayed over there. My friends Ananth and Kannuduari went to the shop owner and asked "Were these mobiles were real ones or just gadgets? And if they were gadgets how much does this model (Sony W800i) costs?". The owner was done with this question and responded "How dare you guys ask me this question? I have invested 10 lakhs in this shop and you guys just walked in and ask me whether these were just gadgets?". After this, My friend Mari, inquired for the price of a mobile and the owner responded as "Nothing is for sales. Everything were just for show case" and also he murmured something. We guys got the intention of the owner to get us out of the shop and he was not interested in any sale from us. These guys(Ananth and Kannudurai) were laughing aloud and we walked out from the shop. And most of the time we end up like this.
And these were the fun part.
Other Face:
There is also other face of bachelor life. Everyone have their own responsibilities. As I mentioned above, you will get some invaluable friends who would care for your growth. Since everyone is away from home and parents, you would understand the love and affection of them and obviously miss their presence. As we guys start managing our own things we develop the individuality rather in home Mom is behind there to take care for our every single aspect. We start to plan our finances(I am bad at this) and future prospects. We get to know more about our career as many of us are in the same industry. Also there is not much responsibility to think about family, we have ample time to plan and prepare for the career growth and the even by statistics the growth curve will be steep at this level.
And finally to conclude, Bachelor life will be a part and parcel of everyone's life. This time has to be enjoyed, planned well and relished in future. As a bachelor for now, I enjoy each and every moment in this life without any regret. I wish the same for all bachelors.
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