Done with Mehdipatnam School

Almost some months back, when i was thinking of charity, i took help of samyuktha and started a school at a slum community in Mehdipatnam. This school was my first move towards charity. I Still remember the people who funded and encouraged me, my NIIT friends, great people. As this is not the forum to talk about them, putting them aside. Starting the school costed me 1.5 Months and Rs.10000/- and we were able to pull around 40 children to school.

My objective was to develop interest in those children to have education but not to teach too many things. I was successful in sending few children to Govt school and one bright student to a private school. Now responsibility still remains tracking these children's progress in Govt School and paying fee to the girl in private school. I personally left half satisfied with the school and children's progress but then also its not that easy to pull all children to school, i still managed to send 6(out of 15) children in that community to school after talking to their parents and will be taking care of them. Way to go

Why Software Engineer works beyond 8 Hours

weird questions to any software engineer or in this case any body who works for a corporate...
1. whats your pay? Your answer might be anything for this question, you will be in trouble
2. you will enjoy the life like anything? may be my dress made him think like that
3. You will not stay single second more than your working hours? Here my face takes different curve..it is not a surprise, not a frustration..it is some unknown feeling where we will be in a position thinking how to make this guy understand...i thought a lot abt it later, why really ppl stay more than what they are expected to
Many reasons, changes from person to person..we will discuss one by one
Browsing..many people have their own categories to timepass here. Making friends in Internet, Playing Online Games, checking current market conditions, ....person comes to office, log on to his machine, Open the web page out of his interest, start refreshing it. When work is assigned, will do work for 15 mins and thinks that a break is compulsory now and starts chatting until other guys say BYE. This conversation will go till end of the day because, other person will also be a software engineer..they will not complete work and will stay back till late night and when next day starts, whispers infront of manager, this work is making my life hell...
Second reason might be competition ( Or a sort of jealous)..This i feel is a strong reason..i have many colleagues. We really had good start as a team. Suddenly one day one of my colleague happened to stay till late night for a research. he stretched till 3AM morning and resolved some issues. Result is he got some solid feedback. So from next day, what ever we do, he is taking entire credit...so i thought of stretch so that i will also get that credit, promotion, hike and all..so i decided to stay back...entire team followed it later. after that my manager changed the team policy and said, though 8 Hours is official, Our team stretches their day and completes work successfully. Fact is , insecurity feeling makes you stretch
Third reason, most happening reason...when i come to office, let me start chitchat rather than work. Come to office at 10AM. Before you attach your self to your seat, get a coffee and have discussion with your colleagues about what happened to yesterday night serial or final match. 30 mins of chitochat. Come back and check your mails and forward Good Morning mails to all. its 11AM now, see what are the tasks given to you and see if your work is in balance with whole teams work or you are awarded more work, if it is more start scolding your manager. its 12:30 now, get ready for lunch and come back to seat at 2 PM. tell your colleague now tht you are feeling sleepy, discuss about a topic "why a person feel sleepy" for some one hour. 3PM, try to do some work, but no interest as you became lazy not doing anything from morning. its 5PM, discuss among team and tell manager, who will just relax in his seat after his process of time pass that time and work didnt match, we need some more time. Manager wants the work to be completed at any cost...do it and come back.