Wednesday, January 30, 2008

The Longest Month

Yes, January 2008 has been the longest month of my life. Not because it has 31 days but because I have not been able to get through this at a pace that I would have liked.

I resigned at the beginning of the month and since then I have been itching to leave.  But the days just won't get over. And to tell u the truth the feeling is also not great. U know u have to go and u r counting ur days and u have people who r keeping a good eye on you.
Well, i can only wait.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

The One Lakh Dream

Tata's One Lakh dream finally came to life on this 12th at the 9th Auto Expo. The much awaited and anticipated car called the Nano was unveiled by Tata om 12th Jan 2008. And the car has lived to all the hype that was created before its launch.

Compact but yet full of features, this car caught the eye of one and all. In fact, Tata's stall at the expo was among the ones that drew huge crowds.

As per my personal opinion the car looks good and is sure good value for money. But Tata is still to run the road tests and find out if this car would actually work for a common man.

The car would be made available in September this year. Well, all those who want to own a Nano should keep their fingres crossed :)

For more information on the Nano please visit:

http://www.carwale.com/autoexpo/?p=25

http://www.tatanano.com/tatamotors/

Sunday, January 6, 2008

Serving Notice Period :)

Yes, I have resigned I am serving my notice period of 30 days with my company. It all began around August, when even after me saying a lot of times that I am underpaid my salary was not raised. What followed was nothing less than a nightmare for me.

My CEO took a different approach at it, instead of talking to me he kept pushing the TL to talk to me which is not really a great strategy. I had also pointed out a number of problems and instead of solving them he started picking on me for any reason right or wrong. I was treated as a scum bag.

Every little argument I had with someone was taken as a opportunity by my CEO to take it out on me. He kept telling me "u need to change", irrespective of the fact who started it all or who was right or who was wrong. I still wonder why can't others change. What all he says to me why can't he say it to others. Maybe he is scared of his own employees.

My CEO thought that I am pointing fingers at him by saying that I am not fairly paid. He took it as a personal attack. So, he started pointing fingers back at me. He thought he could break down my self-confidence, but he couldn't, I had seen worst.

He started crossing every little limit that there existed. But he really crossed it the day he had a word with me about my certification exams. I told him I am not giving my exams coz that will lead to my appraisal and an appraisal meant a 2 month notice period. He yelled at me "Do u like working here?" I wonder what gives him the right to yell at me. I am not his servant.

This incident really pissed me off And somewhere in my heart I decided that now I will leave.

But what really lead to this was the incident that took place about 45 days back in November. We had to go live with a project and my TL had done a horrendous job with the time lines. Well, we were over the target by 15 days. My TL went on this marriage leave. It is then when it all happened.

My CEO sat with me one evening doing the fine tuning of the application and the he told me that he sit with regarding the same the very next day. But, the next day he came in and shouted at me "Is it ready?" Dude, just the last day you had said that you would like to sit with me regarding the application.

Now I as really pissed. And I took a definitive decision to quit. And a month later I resigned.

This is the major but not the only factor for my quitting this job:
1. CEO plays like a puppet in hands of his trusted.
2. Some people are the exception to every rule. There is huge partiality in the organization.
3. I work my ass off for what I get, others who get double don't put in any efforts.
4. The need of the hour is a proper HR which he don't have in place for a little too long now.
5. No growth here.
6. I am stuck in HTML/CSS/Javascript. There should be an equal division of work.

I am hughely relieved that I have resigned.