Impressive Words !

Ever thought whats going on his mind when I am interviewing him..
Well it happened yesterday. No I was not interviewing anyone. I was on the other side. The company needed a new senior project manager so this guy was given a responsibilty ( another project manager ) to interview from the current talent pool in the company.

I have always been turned off by "I knew it all" attitudes no matter at what levels it existed. I was surprised by the way he conducted the whole thing. The kind of words he choosed to address the profile or his expectation for new project manager was not at all impressive. As he was judging me if I suited for the position. Did he thought for a moment if I was thinking on the same lines... "Is he the kind of guy I would like to work with"

Restructuring continues ..

This week started with the speculations and then actual firing of quark employees. So I my last two posts have been about them their firing and "restructuring". Just when I thought ( rather everyone @quark thought ) the "restructuring" is over. Late in the evening I got the news about two more techies being fired. This latest hitlist has count of 10. Strangely all this happened even the teams were addressed to calmn down as there will be no more firing. In my honest opinion this is poor strategy. Your actual are speaking louder than words. Management not only loses faith but also respect from employees.

Restructuring = Mandatory Firing

Continuing from where I left in the last post, firing of quarkians seems to have stopped. But it has left few scars. The "big guy" from HR had an impressive speech for all the "left overs". Restructuring was the center of attraction. Many choose not to see the beautiful faces and did not attendid his impressive speech. Floor seemed slippery.
This "restructuring" was need of the hour to make things "better" in quark said the "big guy". Yeah you must be thinking to checking your latest dictionaries to check what actually "restructring" means. I am calling my beautiful english teacher... its ringing !!

Yeah it has stopped raining now but expect some more heavy showers in mid october when another "ship" is going to sink. But don't expect many casualities next time. I heard few of them are already on their way to jump to the nearby ships. Is it stinking ..

Second cricket test between India and England starts in Oval today. Chak de India !

Quark is firing again

Well I just heard that Quark has started firing his employees here in India. The way they fire their hard working employees is just phenomenal. The employee is suddenly called, he is asked to leave the office premises in next 15 minutes or so. The security guard and a networking guy accompanies him/her to his desk. Networking guy locks and takes custody his/her machine. The employee collects the belongings in next 15 minutes and the the security guy makes sure that this employee is out of the office premises.

No questions, no answers, no reasons. He is given a two month salary in advance and is asked to sign a paper which says due to internal company department transfer, your professional goals will not be met so You are resigning. Isn't it incredible !!

And funny thing is some of them are top performers and have received appreciations in the near past. Quark does not acknowledge the previous performances. Cost cutting is all there on thier mind. Employees have just no idea about the criterion for firing. Quark has a reputation of being a most insecure company as far as job security is concerned. Would you like to work for such company no matter how much hefty packages they have ?

Just got a sms .. one more fired !

Update : this post is continued here.

Interesting Game

I just found a simple yet cool game. I am sure you gonna like it. Try you your hand and do leave comments about it.







Source: http://armorgames.com

laziness

I just keep scribbling here what ever comes to my mind. I think that is what blogging is all about. I will be more frequently blogging what happening all around me.

The clock hits 3:08PM as I am writing this. Surrounded by laziness, I am feeling bit sleepy. I think it has more to do with my job. Just not enjoying my work !
I am ugrading my technical skills at slow pace. Yeah I know I have to be bit quick if I want to be out of this mess.

I am learning few designing techniques in .net. I have googled for MVP ( Model View Presenter ). Found few good links. Although most of them target asp.net but I am specifically looking for winforms. These are the few links I will be reading.

Martin Fowler's post
Jeremy Miller's post
From MSDN Magazine

Not sure when I will be through with MVP..
hah ...