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Friday, 31 December 2010

Two jobs !! Story of my work life

Its the last day of the year , here I am sitting in my nice rotating chair , staring at all the meeting rooms and other cubicles for signs of life nearby.. Its 10 in the morning , and still the whole office is deserted , even lights are not switched on , no sound of the usual keystrokes in the keyboard , no regular chat messages sound , and it looks like its Sunday . . . Still , am sincere , here I am in office , don know what to do.  ( I don have leave's to take , I need them later !! ) . And whats more interesting than sitting in your desk  with a high speed internet, with no people  to stare at your monitors . So here I am , the sincere , in my place from 830 am !!
Even in regular days , people turn up late in the morning , and thats what is the symbol of a product based company,people tell .. Its good and bad too !!
Good thing ,there is no time line , just come and go whenever yo r comfortable , but defn shd be here when your team is in need of you...
Bad thing , when work is heavy , u cant leave at your ease , even after 7,8 u hav to stay in here..

So , here I am , its 10.15 now , still no signs of life.. So wat do I do , i am just explorin the contents in my hard disk , still nothing interesting, songs I thought , no its already deserted office , and sound ll be clearly audible outside , as I don have a earphone  ( though there are no people to hear my songs , or to stare at me for hearing songs, still its a part of my conscience ) . So I was staring , at the desktop, there is a shortcut titled " SAP Logon " , i thought ok its been 2 hours now , I didn even open my outlook to check the official mails , while I had facebook and gmail opened in my chrome , the moment my system booted.. So I opened my outlook , waited for it to update its folders, and then came a mail , stating , Manager on leave today.. Woah !!
Wat a feel it gives you , that too for a fresher , no words can tel yo tat ,  hav to feel tat!! So I minimized outlook too , and again I saw "SAP Logon"  , I thought no way !! , How many times do i do the same , create a bank structure , create a loan product , create a customer , no no no no  !! My CPU inside my head was telling me not to do the same today too..
So I waited for my frens to come , Oops , one of my close pal in company wen to Goa for new year celeb, other guy is coming late today !!
So its 10.30 now , I thought why don I post what I am doin here , so here I am drafting down my work here..

So , 2010 is going to end.. What a year it has been for me !!
I graduated with distinction , so now am Sivaram.S B.Tech .. ( Am Engineer Sivaram daddy , like Varanam Airam style ) .
I joined my first job " Systems Software Engineer " at Hewlett-Packard, June 21st 2010.  I was in networking wing of HP-UX , its all confidential , not to be told outside, I tell myself , " avlokula namba worth ila ,ena terium enaku, perusa confidentiality nu feel panra " , ( I don kno anything in it , so there is no breach of Confidentiality Clause,am not worthy of it  )  .. So it was a happy 115 days in HP , doing nothing other than the communicator chats , reading the same page of the document of the project, not even proceeding one page a day.  We were a batch of 31 , though count was decreasing week by week , stil I enjoyed being there, with all those people from various parts of the country, struggled a lot as I know only Tamil n English, and people wer alwas speakin in Hindi .. I got quite a no. of frens there, and one of them actually inspired me to write a blog !! I had a nice mentor , there , so down to earth , helping me out everywhere , adviced me for my   career , even told me to join SAP , guided me a lot , even told me how to quit , how to speak to the hr etc..
Its rare to get a mentor , to guide yo even to write a resig letter !!


So I quit , now joined SAP ,on Oct 18,2010, its been 78 days here !! Am enjoying SAP. I felt more comfortable , its going good, and again got a nice team , nice frens .. Going good !! Having a nice gang here too hang around with  , i feel like college again , chatting afer lunch ,jus strolling around , woah nice , and I get paid for it !!


These are the significant happenings in this year , a couple of important family functions too , my grandparent's sadabishekam and my sister's engagement also..

And other significant happenings , I saw , a test match live in Chinnaswamy stadium , first time I am experienced seein match in ground.

And most important of all , I started writing this blog this year ! ( Date , check out my first post's date )

Wats this , sudden sound of life , some guy ping'ed me in communicator, atlas my frnd came..going for my tea !!!
I thank God ,for a good year 2010  and hope for a good 2011 too  !! Wishing yo too the same..

Regards ,

5 comments:

  1. Super da sivarama!!!!!

    Wat i felt after reading this:

    I think you have to modify the first line of this blog as "Over the last 2 weeks of this year" instead of "In the last day of the year"..
    That would be really gud and ofcourse, thats wat has happened here, the reality :-)

    I deserve the credit of coming late today and calling you for coffee!!!!

    kadandha kaalam- oru sirapu parvai:

    When i look back and see wat we have done in the last 2 weeks of 2010, our agenda goes like this...

    Reach office @ 8:30 AM Sharp
    One hour coffee (morning /welcome drink)
    1 hour browsing (using SAP's systems and resources/ chk Ashes scores)
    1 hour coffee brk again
    45 mins chking facebook/gmail updates
    1.5 to 2 hrs lunch break (jumbo lunch brk)
    1.5 hrs browsing/facebook /chk IND-SA series updates(in addition to this, u write the blogs under Siva's Pensive - gud job.Keep it up :-)
    1 hour coffee brk again
    1 hr browsing/chatting (in our case, we say this period as 'case study updates'..where we use to schedule and cancel meeting..Nothing much)
    half-an-hour coffee brk again... and from here
    we guys directly board the evening shuttle and U really don know wat to do after this...as a result, without much job satisfaction, you take ur back pack and start walking towards the SAP main gate.....

    And at the end of the day, we are paid for these tough tasks...

    I can assure that you have rocked this season by reading the same news in atleast 4 newspapers each day..no matter whether its national or international news!!
    Moreover, you had all updates on the cricinfo and cricbuzz at ur finger tips!!!!

    Yaaru naalaium ivlo kastamana velaigai seiya mudiyadhu da...Enna oru sadhani..Endha velaiyum seiyama rendu varama kalatha ootitu irukom na chumma va?!?!?!

    sivaram thambi, neenga inga iruka vendiya aalae illainga!! Engayo poiteenga thambi..


    Yeah, but 2010 was really an amazing year for you and ur family ...and for us as well...
    Indha varusam than ungalukulla thoongitu irundha mirugatha elupi pala velaigalai panna vechuchu....
    Keep up ur gud work :-)

    Atleast pudhu varusathula- yavadhu namma above mentioned agenda light ah change aana nalladhu.!!!!!yaaruku nu kekadha..yaruko!!!

    Hope 2011 will bring many wonders in your life and will be a remarkable one for you & ur family!!!

    Wish u a very Happy and Prosperous New year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  2. Anyways thx for ur big comment !! Idulende neengalum ena madiri than irukinga'nu teridu :) Valga valamudan !!

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  3. @Vignesh ::
    Tirumbavum solren , neenga comment eluda matinga,eluduna ada blog madiri eluduringa !!
    arambikamaten,arambicha nirutha maten..

    Nice :)

    Pudhu varushatla sure'a agenda change agum, ashes ended..So kalaila schedule'la change irukum sure'a ..

    Its the last day nu potadu , oru timeline kaga..
    Saroja padathla , poduvangala timeline ade madiri :) Oru director touch kaga :)

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  4. We are used to write comment as blog and blog as comment. This comes from 16 years of writing exams. Imagine what we do when we are in a situation to write answer for an explanation when we don't know the answer???

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  5. And as usual I forgot what exactly I wanted to write, because I was unsure of..

    I met two nice people in 2010 in my exciting new company, it feels so good.

    Thanks and Happy New Year..

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