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”

Continuing work with delivery expert

So, the kick-off calls for the complex opportunity started and as initial step we needed to share the questionnaire. To start off, I called this delivery expert to check his availability and convenient time to discuss to share the questions with the team. He conveyed he is little bit tied up and requested me to check with the old delivery expert, with whom I have good rapport. The old delivery expert conveyed to me that he is now moved to new project and would be difficult for him to spend ample time for this engagement and his support for this opportunity would be too sparse. I conveyed the same to this new delivery expert without knowing how complicated it would turn up for me. It started all from this call and he said he would review and provide required information. Since it was very early in the opportunity, there was not much work and I had to take some personal time off and was not available for a week. When I returned back I could see lot of panic buttons being pressed and I had to take ownership for this opportunity. In mean time other people with whom I was about to work was already pissed off by this delivery expert, as he was too rude to them and was raising unnecessary queries. Continue reading at “G R Team Sites”

On the way to office

In office mail, I was shell shocked to know about important meeting that was scheduled that day and “Thank God” the meeting was cancelled. Had this meeting not cancelled, I would have been screwed up by my manager and all top leaders in the team? Since the meeting was all about discussion on the key opportunities and upcoming target for the whole year in the team. I was relieved to know that the meeting was cancelled and back again to my opportunity call, where they were discussing about the same random stuff not related to my work. Finally the call got over, now I had to start to my office and was rushing up, as again I was late — not that late. I reached my office and was speaking to my wife on the way, the distance to my office was very near and hardly takes few minutes. In meanwhile I had got one missed call from one of my delivery POC and I had to skip the call, since family comes to me than the work :P.  Continue at "G R Team Sites"