Time flies!!!

This day, previous year.

Yes, its been a year since i joined the company i am working for. It was my first job and i had to learn what the "Software industry" is all about.

I still vividly remember the day, and the day before that day too, previous day, I had made sure i had enough time to make sure i have put all my certificates in the bag, made sure i am carrying all the documents the company asked me to get. On that day, couldn't sleep after 5 AM, though i usually get up only at 7:30!!! ;), made sure i finished all my daily chores before leaving home for my "first day @ office", so that i will be happy through out the day, and reached office on time, met new "colleagues", and had a blast that day, and going back home with the new ID card with my name and photo on it :). Life has really come a long way from that day.

Guess, i or more precisely all of us who have completed a year in the industry, have come a long way from being college going, "Happy-go-lucky" guys to thorough software professionals, i guess the latter part have to come our managers. Anyway, at least we believe we have come a long way.

For public buses to Office "Shuttles", For Bunks to Leaves, From classes to meetings, from labs to F2Fs ( Face to Face), from lab records to appraisal documents, from being intelligent to being wiser, looks like everything is changed, except the child like enthusiasm to achieve more in life, to reach greater heights in personal as well as professional career.

Through this year, we have seen a lot of changes as well, our near and dear friends moving abroad for studies, some going for a short stints as a official trip and coming back with a bulkier wallets and airbags :), some shifting 2 or 3 companies and finally ending up doing what they feel they are best at, from personal life, some getting engaged, some getting married and changing their last name and coming to some sorrowful facts, some of our near and dear ones, who felt happy along with us when we landed up with a job, are no longer with us in this world.

We have seen a lot in this eventful one year and hope we see many more like this, with more happier events and very less sad events.

Hoping to see greater heights in everyone's life



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Agenda of a Sick leave

One of my friends / colleague recently took a "Planned Sick leave" :), that means that he knew he would fall sick the next day when he was actually perfectly OK the previous day. OK, lets call him AS, not because its his initials, but because 'A','S','D','F' keys are beside each other and I initially thought i will call him ASDF, but later thought it would be too tiring to type those 4 letters whenever I am referring to him.

So, the background goes like this, AS was slogging for hours for the past 1 month, he was working more than 12 hrs almost once a week and 10 hours every other day. So he decides to go in for a "Planned Sick leave", which is perfectly OK. But because he is so much accustomed having meetings daily and planning his agenda for the day so much, that he plans his agenda for his leave as well

So, here i am actually "Copy-Paste"ing the mail he sent to "friends"(Mean the persons who know he has slogged so much and know that he needs a Sick leave because he is Sick of working so much ) :). And he so darl to all of us, that we have some or the other topic about him daily. So we laughed when we saw this mail

Agenda

• 9:30AM - Get up
• 10:00 AM - Breakfast
• 10:30 AM – Full Othla
• 11:30 AM – Watch movie “ Bommana brothers Chandana sisters “
• 2:00 PM – Lunch with mango :) :)
• 2:30 PM – Watch movie “ The Firm”
• 6:00 PM – Snacks
• 6:30 PM – Watch movie “ 12 Angry Men “
• 9:00 PM – Go to bed

Hey, AS, we, atleast I feel that we smile/laugh so much daily is partly because of you.
Carry on with your "Noble" work.
Keep enjoying life and make us enjoy too :)



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The grass isn't always greener on the other side!!

Mr. Gopalakrishnan succeeds Mr. Ratan Tata as Chairman of Tata Sons Ltd., the holding company for many of the Tata Bluechips - like Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Power, Tata Chemicals, Voltas, etc. Possibly, he is the first non-Tata person to head the Tata Empire.

The below article, written by him, is really interesting!

The grass isn't always greener on the other side!!

Move from one job to another - but only for the right reasons. It's yet another day at office. As I logged on to the marketing and advertising sites for the latest updates, as usual, I found the headlines dominated by "who's moving from one company to another after a short stint", and I wondered, "why are so many people leaving one job for another? Is it passe now to work with just one company for a sufficiently long period”?

Whenever I ask this question to people who leave a company, the answers I get are "Oh, I am getting a 200% hike in salary"; "Well, I am jumping three levels in my designation"; "Well, they are going to send me abroad in six months".

Then, I look around at all the people who are considered successful today and who have reached the top - be it a media agency, an advertising agency or a company. I find that most of these people are the ones who have stuck to the company, ground their heels and worked their way to the top.

And, as I look around for people who changed their jobs constantly, I find they have stagnated at some level, in obscurity!

In this absolutely ruthless, dynamic and competitive environment, there are still no short cuts to success or to making money. The only thing that continues to pay, as earlier, is Loyalty and Hard work. Yes, it pays! Sometimes - immediately, sometimes - after a lot of time. But, it does pay.

Does this mean that one should stick to an organisation and wait for that golden moment? Of course not. After a long stint, there always comes a time for moving, in most organisations. But, it is important to move for the right reasons - rather than superficial ones, like money, designation or an overseas trip.

Remember, no company recruits for charity.

More often than not, when you are offered an unseemly hike in salary or designation that is disproportionate to what that company offers its current employees, there is always unseen bait attached.

The result?

You will, in the long-term, have reached exactly the same levels or maybe lower levels, than what you would have in your current company. A lot of people leave an organisation because they are "unhappy". What is this so-called-unhappiness? I have been working for donkey's years, and there has never been a day when I am not unhappy about something in my work - environment, boss, rude colleague, fussy clients, etc.

Unhappiness in a workplace, to a large extent, is transient. If you look hard enough, there is always something to be unhappy about. But, more importantly, do I come to work to be "happy" in the truest sense? If I think hard, the answer is "No".

Happiness is something you find with family, friends, may be a close circle of colleagues who have become friends. What you come to work for is to earn, build a reputation, satisfy your ambitions, be appreciated for your work ethics, face challenges and get the job done.

So, the next time you are tempted to move, ask yourself "why are you moving" and "what are you moving into”?

Some questions are

• Am I ready and capable of handling the new responsibility? If yes, what could be the possible reasons my current company has not offered me the same responsibility ?
  

• Who are the people who currently handle this responsibility in the current and the new company? Am I as good as the best among them ?
  

• As the new job offer has a different profile, why have I not given the current company the option to offer me this profile ?
  

• Why is the new company offering me the job? Do they want me for my skills, or is there an ulterior motive?

An honest answer to these will eventually decide where you go in your career - either to the top of the pile, in the long-term (at the cost of short-term blips), or to become another average employee who gets lost with time in the wilderness?

- By -
Dr. Gopalkrishnan Chairman - TATA Sons.



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