Monday, October 29, 2007

Random Thoughts !!!!!!!!!!!!


Random Thoughts!!!

I had typed out this post and it vanished from my system in a giffy.
I stared on to my monitor and realized nothing else can be done. So here it goes again, a little refined random thoughts :).

As the title suggests following is some absurd random thoughts that crossed my mind last week. As usual I missed my 7:40 am bus and I got stranded at the bus stop, all alone on a chilly windy rainy U-S morning. Temperature was something close to 51 f (10 Deg Celsius). After two minutes it started to drizzle and I didn’t have any rain/winter gears with me. So I changed my face to a ‘GUY-WHO-ENJOYS-RAIN’ from “OH-S***-ITS-RAINING” expression. But the expression change didn’t have much effect on the chilly atmosphere. My nose went numb in less than three minutes I started to shiver from my thumb nail to my temple. I was gazing out to the other side of the road when the random thought crossed my mind.

The tree right across me is also out there in the winter. The leaves have already changed its color. If (I will call tree a ‘she’) she have a mind on her own, what will be going thru her mind. She stands out in the rain/winter/sun shine, all day/night all alone. I felt a little sad at my heart thinking about the tress. In winter these trees shed their leaves which are like food plates to them. As the life is sucked out of the leaves on a winter, they change its color which is celebrated and snapped by people like us saying ‘fall is here’.

Just for one moment if we can think about being alone, being immobile all your life in one place, it is a big torture. These trees/ plants are out there in the winter without a company, without leaves, without food, without a blanket, open to all the chilling- cold-swirlling wind holding on to their roots. On a sunny day, things are not much different, no where to hide but to get fried under sun. I do think, it is not an easy life for them. Life as it does to us, test her each and every day on her tenacity to live, to adapt, to the varying season around her. The seasons roll down to them as inevitables, pushing their limits year after year until she is turned into furniture or until the she stumbles out to the fury of our Mother Nature.

Oh thee help her fight the winter hard
Let her have another season of springs

We can see her beaming smiles
With her trunks covered with leaves and cherries ….’


Oh it ended up too random :D ……

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

My First client Escalation , being in client location




My hands were wet with sweat. I was feeling the pressure of committing a mistake while being in a client location. The only way out I had, was to accept the mistake and go ahead. The review meeting will come out with some decisions which will reflect badly on my further growth. What have been done is over and we cannot do much about it. All I can do is learn from the mistake and don’t loose the lesson. I have to forgive my self first and then look forward. These words look very easy but being in this situation is really tough.

Growing tough out of bad situation is what makes a man different from being a looser. I have to believe in myself and work towards quality and standards on my deliverables. It will not be easy and it would require an organized approach on each step to come back from a lost battle. The competition in this arena is very critical and we always have to be on the top to be alive and successful. Each moment counts and it pays off later.

The mistake I have committed was out of over confidence, compliance and care less ness
So here it goes, facing the challenge of accepting the mistake to the client in a highly competitive environment with all the mud slashing aimed at me. I’m going to stand up and stand tall what ever the reactions may be. It happened and it happens always with some one some day. So today is my day to face it. Grow up and stand for it, I can grow out of this and come out with flying colors. This might be a bad patch which teaches me all the way for a grand success path.

My meeting starts in two minutes and what ever happens for the best. I am taking it with a smile on my face and guilt in my heart. I have to improve a lot from where I stand today if I decide to hang around in this arena.

Aftermath:
Nothing of head slicing happened. It was all an analysis on the impact of re work we have to do. The re-work part was nullified as we are 'experts' on our work (Said by me who just committed a big blunder). Client is ok for now, but this thing will pop up any moment some thing else go wrong.

Lessons learnt:

Most part of the suffering is not when you go through the problem, but waiting for the out put just after identifying the problem.

A client escalation is a big thing when it happens for the first time with any one, then the client get used to it or you get used to it or client changes the contractor and we get used to it :)


Experince is the funny name tag we give it the mistakes we have done in our life, but this comes at cost of many valuable things!