Monday morning blues with couple of opportunities

So, after taking office call on my way back to home on a Friday weekend, I had to return back to office on Monday as I had two opportunities on my plate and had to work with nagging delivery expert. I was riding back to office from my native and was worried about the couple of opportunities I had to work and was hoping to close all opportunities soon. I logged in to my office laptop and was in for a surprise that due to lack expertise in client defined application landscape and I was back to square one with only one opportunity. And one such opportunity didn’t have much work for me and I requested the delivery expert to shared details with the accounts team directly. Now all the transactions were happening in the mail communication with me in cc, so all the work that has been done on the opportunity will be accounted as my work and can be tracked in my work tracker. However it didn’t last longer, as in the very next day I was assigned with one more opportunity. Continue reading at “G R Team Sites”

One more opportunity with new Team

After fighting hard with new delivery expert on new opportunity I was expecting at-least an acknowledgment from that delivery expert, as I have done all the work in the RFP and she didn’t even bother to assist me on framing the solution. So after the bitter experience with the new delivery expert I moved on and I have been assigned new opportunity to work on by my manager. The huge twist in this opportunity is that in initial mail the accounts team clearly detailed that they would require support even on weekends and they are on tight timelines to submit the opportunity to the client. I was taken a back a little, as I was scared about the expectation from this new account and level of support that would be required from my end. At first day I called the delivery expert and he seemed knowledgeable and supportive, as of now the initial support expectation seems to be normal and they would require additional support in coming days. I was anxious about this new opportunity and to continue reading, please visit“G R Team sites” listed in right section of this site.

Difficult task started during rains

Now with no electricity, I had found simple trick for staying connected to internet and can browse as usual. I disconnected LAN cable from the modem and connected directly to my MacBook Pro and have been browsing through social networks and been watching YouTube videos. To sweeten it further and to show my billable hours for my office, I turned my MacBook Pro into hotspot and was connecting my mobile and office laptop with it. Around lunch I felt little bit pain of not having electricity, but still enjoying it myself with YouTube videos and social media updates. Time was running and still there was no sign of rain slowing up, so ultimately, I felt that the electricity is not going to be there for few more hours. Now at around 4 PM, I planned to move away from my office laptop and thought would watch some movies in my MacBook Pro. I pinged my team lead that there was no electricity for a long time and I would not be available anytime from now, to show it off as real I closed out my office laptop while having around 30% of battery left. Only later I felt how precious that 30% of battery in my office laptop helped me. Continue reading at “G R Team Sites”

16. Calculating Salary revision

After downloading my salary revision letter, I immediately wanted to check my percentage hike and other relevant details. So, I opened the MAC shortcut and started to do some basic mathematical calculation to arrive at rough percentage hike I got for this year. I started with very low number as I don’t want to get disappointed a lot and it’s not the lowest number, I am relieved now. I went ahead with next number and continued till I got my exact numbers. Finally, I arrived at a medium percentage hike number and felt this would be my hike for this year and continued to my office. In office, everyone got their hike letters and we didn’t even spoke about it for first few hours. Later on, one of my colleagues initiated the discussion about the salary revision and was checking with me about some rough percentage hike. I gave him the number least to the median number and checked with him how much hike he had got. I was shocked to hear that his numbers were pretty much near my hike percentage and consoled myself that, he would have got better ratings than me. And again, one more colleague was mentioning that, he had better hike than any of the last 5 years and was quoting unimaginable number as his hike percentage. Continue reading at “G R Team Sites”

Continuing work with delivery expert

So, the kick-off calls for the complex opportunity started and as initial step we needed to share the questionnaire. To start off, I called this delivery expert to check his availability and convenient time to discuss to share the questions with the team. He conveyed he is little bit tied up and requested me to check with the old delivery expert, with whom I have good rapport. The old delivery expert conveyed to me that he is now moved to new project and would be difficult for him to spend ample time for this engagement and his support for this opportunity would be too sparse. I conveyed the same to this new delivery expert without knowing how complicated it would turn up for me. It started all from this call and he said he would review and provide required information. Since it was very early in the opportunity, there was not much work and I had to take some personal time off and was not available for a week. When I returned back I could see lot of panic buttons being pressed and I had to take ownership for this opportunity. In mean time other people with whom I was about to work was already pissed off by this delivery expert, as he was too rude to them and was raising unnecessary queries. Continue reading at “G R Team Sites”