Difficult task started during rains

Now with no electricity, I had found simple trick for staying connected to internet and can browse as usual. I disconnected LAN cable from the modem and connected directly to my MacBook Pro and have been browsing through social networks and been watching YouTube videos. To sweeten it further and to show my billable hours for my office, I turned my MacBook Pro into hotspot and was connecting my mobile and office laptop with it. Around lunch I felt little bit pain of not having electricity, but still enjoying it myself with YouTube videos and social media updates. Time was running and still there was no sign of rain slowing up, so ultimately, I felt that the electricity is not going to be there for few more hours. Now at around 4 PM, I planned to move away from my office laptop and thought would watch some movies in my MacBook Pro. I pinged my team lead that there was no electricity for a long time and I would not be available anytime from now, to show it off as real I closed out my office laptop while having around 30% of battery left. Only later I felt how precious that 30% of battery in my office laptop helped me. Continue reading at “G R Team Sites”

16. Calculating Salary revision

After downloading my salary revision letter, I immediately wanted to check my percentage hike and other relevant details. So, I opened the MAC shortcut and started to do some basic mathematical calculation to arrive at rough percentage hike I got for this year. I started with very low number as I don’t want to get disappointed a lot and it’s not the lowest number, I am relieved now. I went ahead with next number and continued till I got my exact numbers. Finally, I arrived at a medium percentage hike number and felt this would be my hike for this year and continued to my office. In office, everyone got their hike letters and we didn’t even spoke about it for first few hours. Later on, one of my colleagues initiated the discussion about the salary revision and was checking with me about some rough percentage hike. I gave him the number least to the median number and checked with him how much hike he had got. I was shocked to hear that his numbers were pretty much near my hike percentage and consoled myself that, he would have got better ratings than me. And again, one more colleague was mentioning that, he had better hike than any of the last 5 years and was quoting unimaginable number as his hike percentage. Continue reading at “G R Team Sites”