So its our independence day today, 57 years ago freedom fighters of the likes of Gandhi and Nehru, worked their asses off to ensure that the British let go of our nation, and ever since we've celebrated this day with much fanfare ..... mostly by sitting at home, enjoying our holiday, watchin TV, and maybe catching a movie in the evening and then dining out.
But this time around its a little different, for me atleast. Here I am working in office, on our independence day and that too for a British company ..... so much for independence. Not that I am cribbing, I wouldn't have been doing anything spectacularly great sitting at home. Would have slept till late in the afternoon, caught a late lunch and then slept again till dinner time. But then coming to office on a day, when all your life you've been told its a national holiday, pisses me off big time. It wouldn't have been this bad, had I had some really important work to do. (oh just to put things in perspective, I don't want "save the earth" kinda work, but then atleast keep me busy till I am in office.) Some one once said that a great job is that wherein you don't need to look at your watch, but that's exactly what I do all day, look at my watch (which ironically shows British time) waiting for the hours to pass by, till end of day.
A little about my job for the uninitiated, its been three weeks since I've joined this new project, and all I've done is be at the receiving end of knowledge transfer sessions, which trust me are so boring that I would fall asleep one day for sure, even though I am the only one being trained in those sessions. And now that even these KT sessions are done I've been told to sit with my team members and learn on job (again .. so much for the continuity of the learning curve), with absolutely no mandate for me telling me exactly what my job role is and what activities I'd be required to perform. Oh by the way I have to lead this team of 10 people, to where and to what end, only god knows, coz my boss for sure doesn't, atleast as of now, or he would have probably told me.
The best part is my boss, and other senior guys in my team, all they'd give me is gyan, gyan and more gyan and nothing else (and I thought giving gyan was the domain of MBAs like me, but I guess it comes naturally to a lot of other people too, especially your boss). And they'd end their discourse with " as a consultant you should learn to thrive in ambiguity". Man this thriving in ambiguity shit is really getting to my head now, and am really looking forward to productively contributing to my team and adding some value to myself in the process.
Lest I forget, my work requires me to come to office according to British working hours, so I am in office from 1.30 pm to 9.30 pm. But my boss, well he comes according to UK timings and leaves according to Indian timings, now aint that cool. I wonder how much time I'll have to spend here (doing nothing, as I am doing right now), till I reach his levels of doing nothing. Now that's a pleasant thought to end this blog on.
Till next time, here's wishing everyone who reads this a very happy independence day.
But this time around its a little different, for me atleast. Here I am working in office, on our independence day and that too for a British company ..... so much for independence. Not that I am cribbing, I wouldn't have been doing anything spectacularly great sitting at home. Would have slept till late in the afternoon, caught a late lunch and then slept again till dinner time. But then coming to office on a day, when all your life you've been told its a national holiday, pisses me off big time. It wouldn't have been this bad, had I had some really important work to do. (oh just to put things in perspective, I don't want "save the earth" kinda work, but then atleast keep me busy till I am in office.) Some one once said that a great job is that wherein you don't need to look at your watch, but that's exactly what I do all day, look at my watch (which ironically shows British time) waiting for the hours to pass by, till end of day.
A little about my job for the uninitiated, its been three weeks since I've joined this new project, and all I've done is be at the receiving end of knowledge transfer sessions, which trust me are so boring that I would fall asleep one day for sure, even though I am the only one being trained in those sessions. And now that even these KT sessions are done I've been told to sit with my team members and learn on job (again .. so much for the continuity of the learning curve), with absolutely no mandate for me telling me exactly what my job role is and what activities I'd be required to perform. Oh by the way I have to lead this team of 10 people, to where and to what end, only god knows, coz my boss for sure doesn't, atleast as of now, or he would have probably told me.
The best part is my boss, and other senior guys in my team, all they'd give me is gyan, gyan and more gyan and nothing else (and I thought giving gyan was the domain of MBAs like me, but I guess it comes naturally to a lot of other people too, especially your boss). And they'd end their discourse with " as a consultant you should learn to thrive in ambiguity". Man this thriving in ambiguity shit is really getting to my head now, and am really looking forward to productively contributing to my team and adding some value to myself in the process.
Lest I forget, my work requires me to come to office according to British working hours, so I am in office from 1.30 pm to 9.30 pm. But my boss, well he comes according to UK timings and leaves according to Indian timings, now aint that cool. I wonder how much time I'll have to spend here (doing nothing, as I am doing right now), till I reach his levels of doing nothing. Now that's a pleasant thought to end this blog on.
Till next time, here's wishing everyone who reads this a very happy independence day.
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