Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 at
9:55 pm
Work today is so stressful. Even if you have a job,
the work is almost pushing you to the walls.
Many organizations are reducing budget
on the staffs hiring. Thus there are little resources
to do the pile of jobs.
- Are you grueling at your 9-5 job ?
- Are you facing tons of unfinished backlogs?
- What about facing an unreasonable boss that
keeps nagging at you
If there is any error in the task, boss will nagging at you, give you deadline to finish your assignment. While you are trying to excel in your work and yet your boss says this is your basic requirement to fulfill the job. ….OMG
After being employed for so long, I want to tell my friends that I am getting tired to work for people. It does not pay to work so hard and yet your effort is unappreciated. I would rather work for something and yet pays me well like my hobbies, things I like.
At least it provides me a route to excel in my work. If I can excel in my hobbies, like communication. I can become a consultant and share my experience with other. Wont it be great that I can get paid if I am doing through my hobbies.
What do you think? Leave your feedback and comment.
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 at
3:11 pm
I had been doing project communication all along when I was working in the IT industry.
This time, it happened to be in one of the conference call communication.
Background:
The conference call needs to be conducted at
• 11pm Singapore time, 4pm UK time and 8.30pm in Bangalore
• 1 conference involving 3 different time zone parties
Although the call was about the execution of some changes required to execute to implement a tweak in the production system.
Most cases, people were eager and more tolerable to the conference call due to time difference, different culture. The participants were patient and know what to execute.
However, in some instances, some attendees are waiting to pin you down in the call.
Recently, I supposed to open the conference bridge with the above details, one of the UK technical folk came to the call and left for other business.
This caused the bridge to be disconnected. I was not aware then.
Then the 3rd caller from Bangalore dialed in and was not able to get connected to the conference bridge. He was patient enough to wait for the moderator to dial and open the bridge.
Once the whole business execution was done, the conference call ended.
This Indian technical folk lodged a complaint to his superior and
mentioned that the moderator (Project Manager) was not around when the execution took place.
I was reprimanded seriously for not attending the call.
Lesson Learned:
Be more attentive to little details
Just render a reason why the call was not setup. Is it because of the reception or is the conference bridge got disconnected for some reasons.
Be more sensitive to different culture
Some culture respects punctuality. Some respects patient.
Thus a project manager needs to be fully armoured and sensitive in such cases.
Although the lessons learned above were simple and logical,
however, there were always times that you will miss during physical execution.
