This one was written on :
28/09/2011
It has been five
months since I have got my first a job as software developer.
In it's true
sense. I have been paid for getting frustrated by sitting idle or
doing trivial research on things which have no significance to my
project. I’m actually now confused about what I’m getting from
this job ( I don’t question salary I get though :P), what my
employer getting from me; this is what a software engineer supposed
to be ?
But apart from the
nature of the work which is not so like hard programming, the two
things which I haven't managed to adjust with: Tiffin and Timesheet.
Tiffin
Each morning, I am
given that three compartment body structure filled with food,
supposed to be eat. But, the amount of efforts that it takes to
balance and prevent it from licking of oily juices amidst rush and
up-downs of State Transport bus is too much.
In five months I
had forgotten my Tiffin four times in the ST bus and forced me to run
behind it like mad; checking buses like bomb squad.
Each time I
encounter weird looks of my family members suggesting their concerns:
“We fear what and how you mange to a job; your boss must be a God”.
Contrary, I have got it that three compartment Tiffin back each
time.(And finally, I lost the one :( )
Time-sheet
The second
nightmare is time-sheet.
Time-sheet is a
measure of work - number of hours spend on each task, you do on a day
On the first day
of job itself, I was taught to fill and send the time-sheet and on a
serious note, on that day itself I forgot to attach time-sheet and I
was asked to send it on the next morning.
I don’t
remember how many times I have sent mail without attachment on first
instance and re-rending with time-sheet next minute when I realize that
I forgot to attach. (Bosses should understand the excitement of last
15 minutes before leaving office)
By the time
management realized that I should not be treated like a fresher and
how creative I have became by making an half and hour task to four
hours, I have been asked to explain my tasks at least once in a week.
But one thing I
definitely cracked about this creature is that even if you are
working on a some serious and useful task which takes about 7 long
hours, don’t show this much of time, Divide this task into smaller
tasks (write same things in different words, Yes it works :P)
Still, filling
timesheet is one of the laziest tasks in my life though I may have
done a good task on that particular day.
