Completely roasted by the onsite team due to my manager

I was working with my manager to complete the work assigned by the irritating onsite team and out of nowhere, my manager started giving new suggestions to work on. With no options left, I started to work on the suggestions provided by my manager, and trusting my manager would join the call and defend me from any questions from the onsite team. However, a few mins before the call, my manager called and informed me that he would not be able to join the call due to some personal work. I was completely furious about my manager's decision to not join the call with some lame excuses, and I was left all alone in the call to defend all the tasks suggested by my manager. A few minutes into the call, the onsite team got angered about the slides and furious with me that there was nothing relevant in the slides, which they requested, and wanted me to completely focus only on the tasks they shared and not to work on other slides. This clear direction from the onsite team was helpful so that I do not need to work on unnecessary suggestions from my manager and to know more such updates, please feel free to check out the blog posts in "G R Team Sites"

Job insecurity due to coronavirus

I was on a long vacation and with Coronavirus unleashing its beast mode across the country, the government had announced a complete lockdown of all activities. Since I had applied for my vacation long back, I did not want it to be interrupted and I continued to be on my vacation. Within few hours of the country being in lockdown, we all received urgent mail from our company stating that we should continue to connect from home until further notice and the lockdown will not impact our jobs or salaries. I was completely relieved after reading this mail and the mail meant the most because the mail assured that our jobs are safe and there would not be any change in salary structure. Initial days were really scary and with no communication in emails from my team, I was getting nervous, and, in the meantime, I called my colleague to check in about things happening in the team and any updates from my manager due to COVID-19 situation gripping across places. To know more on what details that my colleague shared to me due to Corona pandemic, please feel free to check out the blog posts in “G R Team Sites”

No updates from on-site team even after multiple reminders

After waiting for the whole day to get an update from the on-site team, I had no other option left but to drop a note to the on-site team stating that I can support only for next few days and post that I have planned vacation coming up and the delivery team has to take ownership. In addition, I have also mentioned that with no updates for each version shared, from the on-site team, it is getting difficult for the offshore team to work on the rough drafts and make iterative changes. With these strong words, I was also getting nervous about its impact, as it would result in two different outcomes. The positive outcome would be that the on-site team would take ownership and offshore team can support where and when requested, the negative outcome would be, the on-site lead will request me to schedule daily calls to review the document and would provide unnecessary iterative changes. After sending the mail to the on-site team, I was checking the mail anxiously for any further updates or any acknowledgment from the team confirming whether we are on the right track or further modifications required to match client requirements. The next day with so much anxiety, I was opening my laptop to check mails for any further updates or acknowledgment; to my astonishment, I do not have any mails from the on-site team even after sending so many emails and reminders with clear instructions of my upcoming vacation plans. To know more about how I tackled this service request without affecting my vacation, please feel free to check out “G R Team Sites”

Struggling with new service request and people

After a long struggle to support my colleagues for completion of the service request, finally I got the go-ahead signal from the manager to work on the new request and I got very limited time to convert the document to the right shape. As I detailed in other posts, whenever I finish my old service request’s document, I try to sneak in few minutes or hours to put some effort into the new service request and it really helped me a lot to save some effort and avoid staying late in the office for completion. But, the idiots with whom I worked had other ideas, whenever I finish and send a document for review there will be no comments and the next day, they would join calls and start providing new suggestions. The delivery person with whom I worked was so irritating that he was expecting me to work on each and every part of the document. At one point I was just waiting for the competition of service request and one more most frustrating part in this service request was that the team which was supposed to be helping me was actually questioning my work and was trying to add-on as much as work possible. Get more details about the service request in the blog posts from “G R Team Sites”