Leaving LAS VEgAS

This is an experience on departing ways with your company. Oh Boy, leaving the company is not such an easy task. Apart from the usual headaches of resignation letter to exit interview, which i am sure there are many online helps that cover, there is the all important task of handover of responsibilities/work or whatever you call it.

The important thing while handing over of tasks to the assigned person is that every task is tagged and followed to the second. what i mean is that there is always someone harping at your back following up on you. from the companies perspective everything that you have learnt during your stay at the company needs to squeesed out of you and squeesed into your replacement. logical enough, but this is a rather tedious process. From a personal perspective we need the handover to be hassel free and importantly very quick.

Now i was in a similar situation recently and found myself in a real big fix. The reason was mainly because, with the ego that i have, i wanted my superiors to know and appreciate the work that i had done for the company over the past few years. So i sorta amplified every small detail that i had learnt and developed and completed. now at the end of the day this did have the necessary effect on the manager, as it drew a soft appreciation from his side, but more importantly it also created a whole new plan for my handover. The manager was now thinking only of how to get all this experience transferred to another person. At this point i want to clarify that i see nothing wrong with what my manager did, but it did put me in a very 'frustrating' situation. So instead of handing over and training people just about the current project [which believe me would have been sufficient], i ended up telling them even wht i had done in my previous life.

So here is an experience shared. the best thing would be to put that feeling of "i want to get appreication from my superior" and think about a smooth exit from the company. otherwise you will end up working in the office even though you have your releiving letter in hand.

PS: this blog does not talk about the relationship you need to maintain with your manager and collegues. That is left to user definition.

Ambulances in India or rather in bangalore

What do you do when you see one of these in your rear view mirrors. If you a considerate enough person, you will give way to the vehicle. You give way assuming that the blaring sound and flashing lights indicate someone critically injured or ill is being transported to the necessary destination. You also assume that impeding the ambulance will probably result in putting the passenger of the vehicle in graver danger.

Imagine my surprise, or frustation, when i saw a similar blaring ambulance, but the difference was that it did not carry any passengers. It was EMPTY at the behind! Just to make sure i followed the ambulance and saw that the ambulance put out its garishness once out of the JAM and The TRAFFIC SIGNAL. This means that the driver took advantage of being in a ambulance. I know many of you would be saying that the the ambulance may be heading for a potential complaint, but why switch off the shahnanigans after the traffic signal? No sir this was a case of a selfish driver trying to use public service for his own needs. What is to say that the next time i see one of these vehicles in the mirror i will hesitate to let him by. What is to say that half a dozen people do the same?

Well you have got to think how much such inconsequential things make so much consequence in some cases.

Just to add have you seen how usefull/easy it is to follow an ambulance in a traffic JAM. It makes a huge difference. I have done it a few times and it is definitely usefull in bangalore traffic jams.