While working in support project I became lazy to a great extent. If work comes it comes like hell and if not then I feel like I’m in hell. Now I can understand the value of being with a team and colleagues around, as I am sitting alone working for a project whose other team members are sitting at different location. Now I am missing all my colleagues ;-) I could remember the day I joined my first company and those days of training and then posting in project, those days were like college days and that time we never thought everyone around us as colleagues. We all were friends though we work together in a team. It was always a fun to be in office with no work but hardly have we got such times. There was always moral support of friends (colleagues) around, never felt alone or left out as I am feeling now here.
As the days passed on, I shifted few companies and got to know what a professional life is, everyone seems professional, then got to know what a dirty politics is. Now I remember my days in a worst project I ever worked on, in addition to useless (to me) work, my team lead, my manager were all crap. Team was ruled by few sadists and whatever they do is legal as per that company policy. There I learnt the most, not technical stuff but apart from that, everything. And fortunately/unfortunately that was my first onsite. New place but nice, new people but are friendly and new project and new manager/team lead the worst that any industry would ever have. Finally the manager changed (How?? I’ll write the story in detail, in my autobiography may be someday..:-)), a new crap replaced him, fortunately I left that company by that time.
Now I am in a different company and here too I met one big boss, who is I would say one biggest blunder made by God, may be God was not in a mood at his workplace or may be was watching some K stuffs .But thankfully I don’t have much to deal with him in day to day work. In this project only thing I learnt is how to give thanks. Generally in support project you will get bundles of thanks whether you did something remarkable or not. If the issue is resolved then you are the king, though it’s different to say how it got resolved and what your role was. It makes me feel like I have done something and there is some value of me in this project. This was missing on my first project in my first company.
The best part of this project is fixed hrs of support and is helpful indeed. Everyone knows, how is it painful to work in general working hrs in IT companies in India (9am-6pm) always stretches out to 12hrs or more. In addition to this I can work from home :-)
Though everything is at its place how I wanted but something is missing that is my team who sits far and I’m alone here. No fun, no talks, no discussion of masala khabars :-(
