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Hi Guys,

I am back with my blogs after gap of say nearly 2 years .. I am currently working with another Telecom Giant belonging to same group of my previous concern and the news it that my previous company is going to get merged with the current one . It gives me both pleasure and a bit of sadness .

After quitting EX company , I have gone through enough obstacles to reach my current position of leading sales team for a city . I was able to reach to the position and handle the profile I had always wished for ,but at the same time my bitter experience with few of them in my previous concern is haunting me a bit . Need less to say that my previous concern gave me everything .. growth and experience extra but still I have always felt I did not have the options to prefer my profile there wherein I have got complete freedom in my current organizations.

Have earned respect by ways of executing things and I am now uncomfortable I may get in to shell once again.

15 days more to know my position after the merger...

Rocky

Anyways , I believe god will not let me down this time.

Another 15 days to go .. lets wait and see.

My Last Official Message

Last Working Day

I am searching for words that would help me to make you understand what I feel right now. In another 7 hours time , I am officially out of the organisation for which I have served for more than 8 Years. Today, I am what Iam is only because of this organisation. Today when I pen down this post , I have the same feeling as if I am leaving some one very close to me and moving ahead. I have always taken pride when ever, I had got some chance to talk about my organisation. It hurts me to have taken decision against my well wishers who have taught me everything in this organisation but this toughest decision was to be taken at any cost. I did not want to wade with the tags of being the oldest guy in RBU.


I know for sure that people around me today are going to forget me very soon as per universal law statement " Out of sight is out of mind" but I am sure that I am going to cherish my golden moments in this company for long time ....

Following is the fact and figures relating to my tenure in this organisation

1) I am the longest serving member of the original RBU unit. I am the last to quit too.

2) Worked in 6 different Offices and 4 different cities

3) My Priceless possession : A coin given by RC

4) My greatest moment : When I got promoted as Asst Manager

5) My worst moment : too many .. but one which is worth mentioning is 1st Oct 2009 ..oh god i just wish to forget how insane that Gentle man behaved with me..

6) My Strength : I treated everyone equal , Could easily get along with people

7) My Weakness : I am known for Cribb and that too I cribb to everyone .. Failed to identify good and bad

8) First Presentation : In 2004 at Pune to my current COO.

9) People and Company ? Cannot be explained in words alone.. you need to work here to experience it

10) Satification : The fact that I gave my best though I did not expect anything back..

11) Greatest Learning : It is better to be smart horse than a hardworking donkey

There are lot stuffs that can be mentioned over here but due to time constraint , I am ending this post here...

Bye to ALL

Tribute to my friend Janet Susan

Well Janet was the only girl , I used to talk (actually fight) in my college days ..I was the one to name her "Coconut" as she was tall and this nick name became quite popular in my college. Janet was not good at studies but was good in Singing... She used to sing during lunch hour . I always liked to pull her leg whenever she tried to display her singing skills.. some times I used to comment that some Donkey has entered class or some time I used to place my lunch box on her desk and ask her to sing so that my lunch box gets hot... She was very active person in my classroom and she was the only person in college who used to late and still manage to come inside the class..

Janet did not invite me for her marrriage and the last time I spoke to her was over the phone during Vijay's marriage. She was recollecting the fights we had during college days.

Janet passed away on 30th Mar 2008 in US. I do not know why , I did not have guts to see her dead and hence avoided her last rituals..
In Remembrance of a Great entertainer.. Janet alias Coconut.

"God must be Crazy , that he has taken u back ..
probably he wanted you to keep his place filled with fun and Joy"

Janet Susan .... left us on 30th Mar 2008... We all Miss you badly Coconut....Team International B.E.S

My resignation : An uncomfortable feeling

Iam in the final days of my notice period and after next 5 days , I would be joining the new company. My mood is currently sober . It is mix of both happiness and sadness.

I am happy for the below reasons

a) Finally took a hard call of parting ways with my current organisation .

b) Got a good break in my career that would aid me to show cause my skill set

c) Gave back to the individual in the same way he spoke to me on Oct 1st 2009. ( Read my another blog ......http://rockykart.blogspot.com/2009/10/hr-pain-or-gain-to-employees.html)

d) I chose family out of two options that was lying ahead of me a ) Family or b) Career Growth

e) I am joining an agressive company

f) I have taken control of my career and its growth.Now I will decide what post and position would best suit me .. not any one else.. I always had a feeling that I was under utilised and my career was decided by someone else.

g) I have proved that I would not let go their self respect at any point in life...

h) I have learnt that loyality and professionalism does not go hand in hand.


I am also sad for the below reasons

a) I did not get this job just like that. I joined this company when it was under Government undertaking . It took lot of pains for me to clear the entrance exam and get on to board as "Technical Assistant". I had to forgo my earlier part time to prepare my self for appearing in entrance exam in 2001.

b) As the saying goes , " You need to lose something to gain something " , When I am leaving this job , I am losing some things which I will never get back. I am leaving back my collegaues and friends .Need less to say that I am parting ways with my all time Guru..

c) Feeling of Attachment to company : This is the company , I used to proudly talk about with my college friends . I do not know why , I have always had a sense of pride when I say to anyone about where I am working with . Probably the Brand of this company had lot to do with my attachment.I feel justified to narrate a small incident that took place in 2001 .

It was time the when my company which was under Government undertaking was disinvested. Two major players were bidding for the same. There was one company with the starting letter "R" and other starting with "T". I was praying to God that the company "T" should buy us out and not the "R" one. Finally , it was T company that took over my company .I was elated and went to extent of cutting the Brand symbol of that "T" company and pasted at top of my Id card . I was even warned by the security head ( DGM) for having tampered with my Id card. Such was the passion , I carried for my company and its brand

d) Last but not the least , Now I would be fighting this same company in the market. I would be fighting against the same friend and colleague of mine. I would say that I am put in same situation of that of Pandavas fighting their own cousin brothers.

What ever it is , I am going to look ahead of my life with positive note .......

An apology to a friend

I am writing this blog since I wanted to wholeheartedly apologise to my Friend Mr AC. the reason being that I had to use his name ( blame ) to get myself relieved from this organisation. The story goes like this ...



In Sept 2009 end soon after my marriage , I was given two options

a) either continue my then profile of Business Analyst and move to Hyderbad which was my Zonal Head office for south ( I was not in a position to move out of chennai citing my parents health)

b) move under networks reporting to my own best friend AC.

I was left with no other option but with option no 2 , I decided to move to networks reporting under AC

Now AC was very close to me and I have shared each and every thing with him but though I had taken a decision , I was little hurt to report under AC who was of the same cadre as of mine. Ideally , being flexible at work , that should have not caused much problems to me but I chose to motivate myself to look out for new job citing the reason of being made to report under AC.

Apart from the fact that our styles of working was not matching , we did not have any big difference of opinion as such. Meanwhile in Feb end , I had two big suprises .. yes

a) I got an offer from a small but aggressive company.

b) My current management was ready to allow me work from Chennai in the same old BA role.

Now both these suprise events happened at same time . I finally made up my mind to move out . Now the reasons which i could use to move out were

i) I was not allowed to work from Chennai in my previous role of Business Analyst ( Now there was no meaning in citing this reason as my management was finally ready to allow me to work from Chennai)

ii) I was made to report under AC of same cadre

I was left with none but the second option of blaming my reporting under AC as a reason to move out of this company.

I sent my resignation letter on 3rd and the management tried to convince me a lot but I preferred to stick on to my stand and use my reporting to AC as main reason for my quiting.

I finally managed to crack it and my management accepted my resignation but this was done at the cost of blaming my reporting under AC.

While i wirte this blog , i feel very bad for having done that since AC was very close friend who used to motivate me at my bad time and in fact he was very uncomfortable in me reporitng under him.

I would like to apologise to my friend AC for having used his name wrongly to get myself relieved from my post .. God Bless him