It was a usual dull and hot (though not like North India)Monday afternoon. I managed to enter my office around 1.00 PM(Thanks to a personal loan call). Despite of my several short-lasting sincere efforts during last one year, by now I have happily accepted the fact that I am not meant for coming office early in the morning. More importantly, how one can avoid sleeping during morning (this is one of the wonderful habit developed during four years of IIT hostel life, though there are many more habits but need not to be mentioned here!!!!).
As soon as I entered the office a group of goons of my company(not my offence...this is how people in my company refer our group) forced me to go for lunch. Then it was our usual lunch discussion again. Usually, the food is so pathetic, it is practically impossible to have your lunch without having interesting discussions on a variety of topics. Though a wide range of topics are discussed during the lunch but there are a few selected topics without discussing them we never finished our lunch. After being in IIT for four years and then working in Qwest for last one year (height of loyality) has made us such that presence of females (esp. if beautiful) near by us make us behave differently. The following para briefly describes this change in behavior.
One of my friend couldn't work that day she (someone special...though for a little time) came and when she didn't come his emotions didn't allow him to work!!! another friend of mine started feeling the hotness of weather and suffocation of closed office building when he found a vacancy near a hot-seat!!! another one didn't miss a single opportunity to be close to any of the females, even after doing the atyachar on one sharif dost for last several years he was not ready to put him ahead in any of these situations. Another one was very happy in enjoying the rain from the balcony itself instead of getting wet!!!
So, the lunch started with discussing the angels. How one got extra power (like Hritik in Krrish) on thursday night and how one shouted about it in Barista(like Sunny in Gadar) were the most interesting topic to discuss. Then the another topic of common interest came in. How are we going to manage the tickets of POC this Thursday evening (thanks to Manhattan Cards....1+1 tkt on Thursday at INOX!!) , I asked. Answer was obvious we definitely book the tickets on Tuesday. Then abusing this company and its management (this time reason was justifiable...no water cooler for last one month and finally today water cooler is back after servicing..also abusing the company is one of the best timepass I enjoyed during last one year, because nobody has any objection or reservation about it) made the discussion and more importantly lunch interesting. After all this it was my turn to get interviewed. I have started my GRE preparation 1-2 weeks ago. Now I can understand how tough this decision is for me. How difficult is memorizing word-list for me (Despite of my sincere effort, I struggle to get the output of even one third of time spent, but again not my fault..born as a Bihari, graduated in Computer Science and now working as a Software Engineer... There is not a single point of my life which is even close to these painful English words!!!!). But, discussion about my preparation is also one of the common point of discussion nowdays. Sometimes compliments like "Ab India me rahne ka bilkul irada nahi hai" reminds me of my preparation.
After discussing all these interesting topics I was feeling more energetic and the dullness of afternoon was not very influencive. As I directly went for lunch so, the morning rituals (checking mails of Outlook, code updates, graph generation, looking at number of defects) were still left to finish. Though I belong to the team which has very high workload, I have almost no work nowdays. This forces me to explore different wy to pass the office time.
So, I started with rituals one after another. I saw one mail sent to me personally (during last couple of months our team has been added to n number of mailing groups..so usually it's the useless group mails are there in outlook). I scrolled through the mail and then the obvious reaction in mind was this had to happen!!!
"Avinash,
When email goes out to the whole group try to lower your language. "
This was the response from one my senior On-Site team member after reading my mail on Friday. On Friday one issue was discussed in mail. The mail was travelling across the company and n number of people were replying the mail with their expert comments. As, that issue could only be looked after our team so I started looking into that and after scanning 10-15 MB (my good luck..else this count would have been around 50 MB) of logs I got the reason behind the issue and replied back mentioning the error by another team which needs to be fixed. Then I received reply of my mail with expert comments.
"In first instance this is not a new change and appears from long time. This is has been tested successfully by Business. I don’t think this is the main cause."
Now one can easily understand what could have I done after reading this reply. I scanned through those MBs of log file and found the reason then these people (during all previous mails they were no where near finding the reason even gave us the incomlete logs....so that forced me to run the batch utility and get the logs) were trying to impose their expert ideas in this solved problem. What I am still trying to decipher is wht they actually wanted?? You don't know the solution and when somebody is providing you the solution and then you are trying to impose your ignorance to this solution. So, you really need the solution or just wanted to stretch this mail sequence!!! So, my instant and impulsive reply to this mail :
"This is the only cause ....................................................
.......................................................................................................
.......................................................................................................
Does it make sense??
.........................................."
and then I got the mail to soften my language. I replied that mail also......
"Sorry for the harsh language used in that mail. I will try my best to take care of it in future.
Actually, after scanning through several MBs of logs..I found the error an then someone tried to impose his expert thinking on it. That frustration resulted in this harsh mail."
These mail sequels screwed up all the happiness of our lunch session discussion and made the day even more dull and clumsy.
But, honestly as replied in mail, I can't control my reaction which will result from any kind of frustration (As a Software Engineer you need not to worry about the reason for getting frustrated. You will always have more than one with you.......females, work-pressure, contarstly sometime no works....appraisal...job change, higher studies.....and many more always welcoming you!!!). So, precisely I can say I will try my best but it is lamost impossible for me to be sweet everytime to everyone!!!!
As soon as I entered the office a group of goons of my company(not my offence...this is how people in my company refer our group) forced me to go for lunch. Then it was our usual lunch discussion again. Usually, the food is so pathetic, it is practically impossible to have your lunch without having interesting discussions on a variety of topics. Though a wide range of topics are discussed during the lunch but there are a few selected topics without discussing them we never finished our lunch. After being in IIT for four years and then working in Qwest for last one year (height of loyality) has made us such that presence of females (esp. if beautiful) near by us make us behave differently. The following para briefly describes this change in behavior.
One of my friend couldn't work that day she (someone special...though for a little time) came and when she didn't come his emotions didn't allow him to work!!! another friend of mine started feeling the hotness of weather and suffocation of closed office building when he found a vacancy near a hot-seat!!! another one didn't miss a single opportunity to be close to any of the females, even after doing the atyachar on one sharif dost for last several years he was not ready to put him ahead in any of these situations. Another one was very happy in enjoying the rain from the balcony itself instead of getting wet!!!
So, the lunch started with discussing the angels. How one got extra power (like Hritik in Krrish) on thursday night and how one shouted about it in Barista(like Sunny in Gadar) were the most interesting topic to discuss. Then the another topic of common interest came in. How are we going to manage the tickets of POC this Thursday evening (thanks to Manhattan Cards....1+1 tkt on Thursday at INOX!!) , I asked. Answer was obvious we definitely book the tickets on Tuesday. Then abusing this company and its management (this time reason was justifiable...no water cooler for last one month and finally today water cooler is back after servicing..also abusing the company is one of the best timepass I enjoyed during last one year, because nobody has any objection or reservation about it) made the discussion and more importantly lunch interesting. After all this it was my turn to get interviewed. I have started my GRE preparation 1-2 weeks ago. Now I can understand how tough this decision is for me. How difficult is memorizing word-list for me (Despite of my sincere effort, I struggle to get the output of even one third of time spent, but again not my fault..born as a Bihari, graduated in Computer Science and now working as a Software Engineer... There is not a single point of my life which is even close to these painful English words!!!!). But, discussion about my preparation is also one of the common point of discussion nowdays. Sometimes compliments like "Ab India me rahne ka bilkul irada nahi hai" reminds me of my preparation.
After discussing all these interesting topics I was feeling more energetic and the dullness of afternoon was not very influencive. As I directly went for lunch so, the morning rituals (checking mails of Outlook, code updates, graph generation, looking at number of defects) were still left to finish. Though I belong to the team which has very high workload, I have almost no work nowdays. This forces me to explore different wy to pass the office time.
So, I started with rituals one after another. I saw one mail sent to me personally (during last couple of months our team has been added to n number of mailing groups..so usually it's the useless group mails are there in outlook). I scrolled through the mail and then the obvious reaction in mind was this had to happen!!!
"Avinash,
When email goes out to the whole group try to lower your language. "
This was the response from one my senior On-Site team member after reading my mail on Friday. On Friday one issue was discussed in mail. The mail was travelling across the company and n number of people were replying the mail with their expert comments. As, that issue could only be looked after our team so I started looking into that and after scanning 10-15 MB (my good luck..else this count would have been around 50 MB) of logs I got the reason behind the issue and replied back mentioning the error by another team which needs to be fixed. Then I received reply of my mail with expert comments.
"In first instance this is not a new change and appears from long time. This is has been tested successfully by Business. I don’t think this is the main cause."
Now one can easily understand what could have I done after reading this reply. I scanned through those MBs of log file and found the reason then these people (during all previous mails they were no where near finding the reason even gave us the incomlete logs....so that forced me to run the batch utility and get the logs) were trying to impose their expert ideas in this solved problem. What I am still trying to decipher is wht they actually wanted?? You don't know the solution and when somebody is providing you the solution and then you are trying to impose your ignorance to this solution. So, you really need the solution or just wanted to stretch this mail sequence!!! So, my instant and impulsive reply to this mail :
"This is the only cause ....................................................
.......................................................................................................
.......................................................................................................
Does it make sense??
.........................................."
and then I got the mail to soften my language. I replied that mail also......
"Sorry for the harsh language used in that mail. I will try my best to take care of it in future.
Actually, after scanning through several MBs of logs..I found the error an then someone tried to impose his expert thinking on it. That frustration resulted in this harsh mail."
These mail sequels screwed up all the happiness of our lunch session discussion and made the day even more dull and clumsy.
But, honestly as replied in mail, I can't control my reaction which will result from any kind of frustration (As a Software Engineer you need not to worry about the reason for getting frustrated. You will always have more than one with you.......females, work-pressure, contarstly sometime no works....appraisal...job change, higher studies.....and many more always welcoming you!!!). So, precisely I can say I will try my best but it is lamost impossible for me to be sweet everytime to everyone!!!!
3 comments:
hmm.... good practice.... keep up the good work :) par dost Gadar ka Sunny deol to nah kahe.... main thodi openly tujhe Omkara ka langda tyagi kaheta hoon
nevermind....I haven't made anything clear!! This is you who is openly admitting the fact!!!
arrey bhaiyya frustoo nahin hone ka...waise I think that language was not harsh....I think it was the right thing you wrote...who wants to be goody goody 2 everyone...wat is more important is the work getting done in the proper way...But again who knows how senior was the person..And of course I belong 2 ur group so probably my thinking synchronizes with yours...
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