seems i am out

Start up company and spent almost 30 months with a great organization. Not it seems, i am almost out to take oppurtunity with another company. My new company certainly ranks bigger than my current company in all aspects. Its good time to talk and write about my experience with current company known as Accenture.
It was on March 4th, 2006, i took offer with this company and joined on March 16th 2006. 2 days of induction and i had no training as all other college passouts have. I was told that i will be working as vendor to Microsoft Corporation and i will have to attend interviews with them soon. Around March 25th, i have been interviewed with Microsoft and i was asked to join team in Microsoft on April 10th.
Although i never dreamed about Microsoft or any other big organization, it was great thrill starting with this client. My role was not to develop any software or any patches, but to support the applications developed and patches applied. More than technical skills, this role requires Strong communication skills and ability to work in shifts and more patience. i thought about moving myself to technical role, but i never strongly tried on that side and never stopped myself from doing justice to the job i am doing. All i have in my mind is "do justice to your job, what ever the role you are in". Paralelly i joined Corporate Social responsibility team in accenture (A community to volunteer social responsibilities), i sticked on to that job as well till today. Later i have taken some trainings and i helped interviewers in my company. It was great experience for me as a starter in corporates to step myself into all activities. Ofcourse there were many bad times, when i was badly scolded for my poor work and poor email communication. Once, i was asked not to come to office for 2 days for the blunder happened due to my poor email communication. Ofcourse, that was first and last worst thing happened.
After one year, management decided to move the project from our hand to another company. During this time, i thought of changing technology and move out from shifts. there are certain policies which states that i can change technology after one year in project. Afterall, policies are implemented by people and the consequence is they didnt allow me to change technology. Again i am into support project. I had very tough interview. It is a tough because i am naive technical guy. As there was some urgent requirement and claiming that i have good attitude, they took me in.
There were no night shifts in this team and support work in this team is very much different from what i did in previous team. As my technical capabilities are high, i was kept away from technical work. Soon there were night shifts in the team and i was asked to start it. During this time, i worked closely on all issues with US team though they are oceans away from me physically. During this time, i imbibed many skills. Everything was going fine till now.
A bad day has come where i was asked to stretch myself after night shift, i did it. next day, i was asked again. I strictly said NO this time and my manager bounced back with big disappointment mail. I made it a big issue and asked them to roll me out from project. I didn't get the roll off from project, but a bad image against me that i dont have that so called attitude. Things were not that interested though there was good work. same story continued for another 6 months and then it was little smooth than former.
This is one story and another was i have placed a request to send me onsite due to my financial obligations. Request was not processed and i didn't see any movement of request. I lost hope and strictly thought of taking up another oppurtunity. Now i got another oppurtunity and i decided to change.
30 Months journey with Accenture was really great and the culture is good. After all in India, always politics dominates professionalism. I saw people, who do not like people who work for 8 Hours. For that matter, Problems started for me in second team when i rejected to work for 13 hours in shift. All it matters is people (mostly veterans in company) who follow policies when they wish to and when they think that their *()&*( will be safe.

The Chef

Recently i prepared tasty and spicy biriyani. This was my first attempt and prepared in an attempt to keep myself away from electronic goods (System, Mobile, TV) . Here are the requirements and procedure


Ground Zero Requirements -


-> Gas Stove and Cylinder with enough Gas


-> A Knife


-> Cutting board


-> A bowl and a cooker


Preparation -


-> Chop onions using cutting board and knife


-> Chop tomato


-> Chop Carrot


-> Chop beans..add more vegetables you want and you like


-> Chop Chillies


-> Get a packet of biriyani powder and Garlic paste


-> wash rice well and soak rice in few cups of water (depends on quantity of rice)


Cooking -


-> Pour Oil (if available add ghee too) in the cooker. when heated enough put all the saute items


-> add onions and saute. Add all items (along with Biriyani powder, salt and Garlic paste) and saute well for 10 minutes.


-> Add rice along with water


-> Put the lid and wait till its completion.





here is the Tasty and spicy biriyani

Ofcourse i took a snap after dinner. Believe me, it was good enough.