Crazy week!!!

Its been a crazy week at the office. Closing in on 1st independent release and lot of unwanted issues creeped up. Nothing new in this but these could have been avoided just needed better management of time and resources. Manager is a nice guy but seems to be right person at the wrong place. New to his role as a manager and hence still needs to get acquainted to tricks of the trade :). Needless to say requires support of his team, higher management and onshore which he lacks bigtime. I being oldest member of his team can see his painful eyes whenever a blasting email reaches our mailbox. He just has to speak up to those people who are more or less responsible for this. May be this is the only way to treat rather than screwing them up during performance review.

I wonder how few people run from their responsibilities and still manage to sleep peacefully at night??? How can people be so thick skinned??? My team unfortunately has such annoying people who at the critical stage take leaves just because they are married or have plans. WTH??? Nobody likes to work more than 9 hours but when it is needed i think we should not run away, just because you are being paid only for "9" hrs.
I agree that we have life outside office and we should not be in the office for more than 9 hours and should spend more and more time with our friends/family. But if this is the case, why not spend 9 hours working and finishing your job in time so that you wont have to spend even an extra minute in office. In IT it is difficult as lot of dependency is on Onshore counterparts but i think still can be managed.

I was a victim this week where i paid the price of finishing my work before time only to get additional work which was supposed to be completed by a lady who is infamously know for delegating her work to others. Me who never manage to say "NO"(don't know why) was an easy prey for her. It makes sense if she has some personal issues to look into and is acceptable once, twice but definately not every time.
As a result I have been working late nights this week only finding myself in the deeper sh** of code which makes no sense. Lot of cleanup is required which needs time which we don't have. Good news is we made some progress today which should buy us sometime till next week.

I have had an opportunity to work closely with my previous client in UK for some time and one thing i admired most was punctuality and seriousness for work. They work hard and party hard on weekends. I think this is how it should be..


Anyway..another busy weekend for me. Bangalore visit was great. Had good time with friends.Much needed change.
Now My Cousin is here in Chennai for a week so will be travelling to pondicherry and Mahabs. Chennai has only a beach which fascinates people..same in Mahabs and P'Cherry. So in all a wet weekend for me :)

2 am on the clock, peace in my mind (after all the ranting here :) another reason to continue blogging), Limp Bizkit's Behind blue eyes playing on my Laptop...its time to crash.

Goodnight..

Rohan