When I look back, I remember few of the incidents from my professional carrier which made an impact on my brain. I will not tell any names here and I do not have any personal feelings or problems with them. They all are good people and they all deserve a great deal of rewards for their work.
I remeber my first TL. Whenever I went to him for any help his answer was same "What? If I will solve this then for what purpose you have been hired?" Whenever I went with some solution, he said " What? I can not send this to client". I used to call him sir and he was against it as once he said " What is this sir-sir? Call by my name." But he used to call his PM as Sirji to give him respect. First time in my life I saw a man with no values for his own words. He used to use words like quality, customer and client and makes such sentences in terms of questions that were unanswerable. He used to divide all the works among his team and himself used to learn Chinese, swiming, and was attending certification program from the company. He was more like a king that a TL.There is no doubt I did n't like him. Not only me but everyone in the team seems to be against him. Although, everybody was sweet to him except me. But he taught me first lesson of my life"It is your battle and you have to fight alone". I am thankful to him as he made me self dependent. He is now married and he still rememebers me.
There was a girl, she is still my good friend. I have never seen such potentials and firm mindedness in my carrier like her. She was straight and very intelligent. First day itself I was impressed with her voice, smile, mind and beauty. She was a complete talent package. She had ambitions and she was in sync with those ambitions. I wanted to win her trust so that she can be my friend for ever. In my life first time I felt so motivated that I gave her flowers picking from no where else but from the office reception. Her suggestion were always perfect and her timing was perfect. I tried to win her heart but I failed. I don't regret it as I think she deserved/deserves a better person than me. Once she told me "Don't behave like kids, this is professional world and you should keep your personal life always away from the professional life. I need my personal life out of this and I suggest you the same." This was my second lesson and I am thankful to her and I am going to follow this till my last working days.
Third lesson was from my first manager. I wrote a mail to my TL explaining him that my computer is not in good condition and I may not perform well in comparison to others but in that mail I sounded like an emotinal idiot. In a one to one meeting my manager told me "from my 9+ years of professional life I have learnt something and I am going to tell you what I have learnt--Don't be emotional about anything in this professional world. Save your ass." This words went and strike my brain nerves like thunder. I thank him for this lesson.
The forth lesson came just few days back when I was released from my account and was called back for a one to one meeting. I was surprised to know my PL has given me ratings and my manager is going to have a discussion for it and his manager is also joining the meeting. Since, it was supposed to be an one to one meeting and I firmly said I don't want anybody except my manager. My manager on files came and had a discussion with me. She clearly said that I have not given you rating, its your PL. I told her that my rating are good and I am thankful but I don't see these rating going into action. I also told her that I was told that I am going to be promoted. She gave me forth lesson my professional life " In this world, people say many things but you should not trust them utill it comes in paper or written".
I know things will keep changing. I am listing these experieces here so that I do not forget these lessons of my professional life. I do things from my heart and I usually go by my instinct. The professional world is an other world which is ruled by words - clients, economy, revenues, profit and there is a internal office politics. The people I met where so professional in their attitude that I almost lost faith in my company, friendship and team spirit. They were trying to send a message that co operate with everyone but they themselves where not co opertaing.
What I learnt from these incidents is simple -- this is a world where mind rules. You have to get that work done by hook or by crook. Man is a social animal but we are not at social work. This is professional work where intelligence rules with the help of skills. If you can not get it find it somewhere else where it exists but do not make noise.
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