From Hero to Zero...

From Hero to Zero...

 You guys would have heard about stories dealing with a person who has become hero from zero... Now I am going to write about  a person who has become zero from hero. This is my true story. I am currently employed with one the biggest Telecom companies of the country. I had joined this company from 2001. From the day I entered this company , I have always had mixed feelings of joy and sorrow. About me in short, I am really pessimistic in nature yet very dedicated at work. Right from my initial days , I have always ensured that I did my work 100% complete and put extra efforts to complete my work before scheduled time.  For the past 8 years , I have handled various profiles as given below

 

1) Technical Assistant : Nov 2001 till Aug 2002 

2) Retail Sales Executive : Sep 2002 till May 2004

3) MIS - Jun 2004 till Apr 2006

4) Territory Sales Manager from May 2006 till July 2006 

5) Backend Operation support from Aug 2006 till Oct 2008

6) Zonal Operation support (HO) from Nov 2008 onwards till OCt 2009

 

All through the eight years of experience , I have worked in different sections but one thing which i missed was that I was never given a department of my choice. When i wanted to stay in Sales , I was moved in to MIS and Back end Operations.. But still I proved myself and my extra efforts resulted in good growth. But I was working without any passion as all these profiles were not suiting me .. I was not given a right opportunity or a platform to prove myself. When I was moved in to Zonal Operation support , I felt slightly relaxed since it was matching the profile which i have been looking for. I was promised that I would be put in to this department for some time alone and I would be given a good profile later. Believing all these false promises , I entered this new department with lots of dreams. I did very well and could meet all the requirement within time. I introduced many innovations and technique and soon  was recognized by many across the zone. It was during this time that i was asked to move to Zonal Head office... Now Moving across regions and zones was not new to me . I had many stints in cities like Mumbai, Coimbatore , Delhi and Chennai.. but this time , i was not in a position to move to Head office. I explained my boss on the same. Now my Boss is my guru at all times. I have never ever told no to all his proposals but this time it was question of my family care... yes I had to take care of my parents who have become old and my movement out the Chennai city would mean that they would have to stay alone. I tried explaining my boss. I pleaded , argued ,requested and did what all to make him understand my issue. no use.. One fine day I just decided to stop speaking about this to anyone. Probably this would have irritated my seniors.. i was given two options ... (blog on how HR spoke to me also has been updated) .. Either to move to Head office or stay in Chennai and report in to Asst Manager. I had no other choice . I had to select only Chennai .. finally everything ended up . I was asked to stay back in Chennai but I was moved in to networks.. I had no knowledge of networks. I still find it difficult to adjust with the newly made changes. It pains really when i have been made to report in to an Asst manager , me being an Asst Manager too. I sincerely feel that I could have still stayed back at Chennai and worked for my boss. It all required one ok from my boss. When i write this blog, I go back to olden days when I used to work for him like a donkey . there have been times when I had stayed back at office to complete new requirements. In this dummy role .. i feel i have become zero from Hero. I still very well know that my appraisal would be taken for a task this time.. But i have dared to face anything ...after we all work for the sake of family and family comes first.

 

My Boss has taught me ABCD in this organization , but now he has taught me one more thing " to be professional and not emotional". It was the emotional attachment i had with him , that prevented me from going out of this Organization. Now I have decided to change it a bit and look out .

 

HR - pain or gain to employees !

Hi My name is Rocky and I am employed with one of the biggest telecom companies. Off late my boss has been behind me to get me transfered to our Regional Head Office .I actually did not want to move in there due to some family issues . I tried explaining my boss with whom i have worked for more than 7 years. I was sure that he would understand my genuine issue and help me out to come out of it without affecting my career.  I had been buying time citing my marriage as the reason.

My marriage went very well as planned without any big hitches in the month of Sep 2009 but i was little bit tensed as I had promised my boss that I would move to Regional Head  office after from my marriage. I really did not mean that i would surely move in , I said these words only to buy time from him.

I reported back to office on 29th Sep 2009 after a gap of 15 days. As told earlier , I was pretty much tensed . I just avoided speaking to my boss as i felt if i speak to him , he might ask me to move to Regional Head Office. I was actually afraid to report him about my joining back to duty. But my calculation went wrong .On the other hand, my boss felt that I was avoiding him . Some of his messengers spoke to me and asked me to report my joining back to duty to him immeditely ( This includes one of my close friend  whom i trusted for helping me out come out of this transfer issue). I denied them right on their face. By now I was ready to face anything . What else would i do , I had no other options but to give priority to my family than my career.

Days rolled and it was 1st Oct 2009 , A new month had began with new set of target and plans. I was still in dilemma whether my request of being retained at Chennai would be considered or not . I prayed to GOD that no one should call me on this issue since that would spoil my weekend holidays.As usual God was not on my side. At around 6:30 PM , I got a call from the HR Head - Regional Office who spoke to me on issue. Probably my boss had asked him to speak to me on this issue.

The ultimate joke was that  HR head himself who was asked to move in to Regional Head office was not willing to move over there and still was trying to convince me to move to Regional Head office. I do not understand one thing how come when he had the same issue and was buying time , he was not ready to listen to my plights . He spoke as if I have done some big mistake or i am a criminal  or I am a guy whom he wants to push out of system . ( Joker did not even realise that I have always been rated Superior or Outstanding all through my career in this company) . He gave me two options.

 

1) Either move to Regional Head office ( which i would not)

2) Get retained at Chennai but report in to a person who is of same cadre ( Now I had/ have  no issues in reporting in this person as he is my closest friend who has guided me all through my bad times but the ultimate check was that the role they offered was not actually suitable for me , this was confirmed by the same guy )

I asked him to give me role in sales or so . HR head replied me bluntly that there was no options left. I had shared my personal issues some months back to him but now he was behaving as if some one had instructed him " show no pity to Rocky, he has to come and report in regional Head office"

For one second , I recollected the roles and responsibility of HR manager that i had learned when i had given my MBA , one of the point in that was

1)  A Good HR manager has to guide employees when ever they are in bad times and provide moral support and help them come over trouble times.

There he was , the HR manager who was very keen in fulfilling the commands of his superior rather than helping out a performing employee to come out of his trouble.

With these thoughts running over my mind  , I told him

"Sir , a third option would have been better for me " , the third option which i was refering to was

" Rocky , pl look out for new job" ...

He hung up the call  ..

 

On 5th Morning , he called me back to confirm what I had decided , I requested him to considered me another 2 challenging options that was open that time.

As expected , he called me in the afternoon to tell the same lie that " that position has been filled " and candidate has been appointed . Now I am damn sure that they are going to float IJPs ( Internal Job postings) within some days for the same post i had asked for ... because HR jokers here have to listen what is told by their superiors and words like Human relationships etc is just for passing out their MBAs  and not for implementation in the organisation they work.

Now i have decided to take up option no :2 of reporting in to my close friend and then move out of this company.

I feel bad for two things

1) For HR Head of this group (Mr JK) who is really trying make things move in the company and wants to make employee feel comfortable here. Poor Guy  , he is not aware that his innovations are not getting implemented at regional level by the HR managers like the one i had discussed now. If I get chance I would highlight the same to him when i leave this company

2) For My superiror who inspite of knowing me for more than 7 Years was not ready to understand my genuine problem and there by creating a situation of losing a good employee.

Terrorist Attack

What happens to be the most shocking news to the world was expected to happen much earlier. This happens to be a good lesson to Srilanka finally. Srilanka though at the foot of Indian Subcontinent has always shown more interest in getting closer to Pakistan than to India. The Indo -Pak War of 1965 and 1971 were the evidence for the same. Srilanka had supported Pakistan during those wars.

Srilanka is also a terrorist nation, terrorist for one simple reason that they are in to killing of their own people.. the Lankan Tamils. Its been more than 30 years since the internal ethinic war had started between the unruly GoSL and Tamil rebels and still there has been no peace so far. The ulitmate joke is that most of the bombs used for mass killing of Innocent Eastern and nothern tamils were actully provided by its strongest ally the so called best neighbour ... Pakistan.

Just like the old Congress Man Mr Nehru who learned a hard lesson from China... during the 1962 war ( hind - chin bhai  bhai) , Srilanka has learnt the lesson the hard way from PAK.

It is high time that Srilanka take sides with India.

Shoe Throw Incident : Indian Version

A Journalist threw his pair of shoes at the the Prime minister while he was addressing a press conference and following were the outcome of the whole incident

1) Prime Minister : Got hit twice on his face badly by the shoes that were thrown at him

Reason : Sonia ji was not around in the press conference and hence he could take a approval to duck his head when the shoes were thrown at him.

2) Police official: Police officials in that press meet arrest the culprit and takes him in custody . Later after 2 hours , there is verbal clash between IB / RAW / CBI / Police as to who would handle this case. Finally it is decided that IB would handle and after few minutes IB reveals that the Suspect was well trained terrorist from POK. They also reveal that the terrorist was about to throw a hand grenade at the prime minister and our poilce acted very soon and stopped him from doing that.

3) Sonia Ji: This is condemnable. We would call for Congress Working Committee meeting tonight to discuss what Manmohan should have done to avoid this national shame

4) Indian Media : Our Dendi TV is the first to reach the hall where this incident took place and these are the pair of shoes that were thrown earlier at Prime Minister. I request the camera man to focus the same for our Viewers. right above the sole , you can find the brand BATA printed on it. Thats all viewers for now , we will keep u posted on the developments , until then bye from Farka matt , Dendi TV Delhi

5) Congress Supporters : They are already in the road breaking and attacking BATA outlets across the town.

6)LK Advani : we strongly condemn the incident . But at the same time request the Goverment to provide necessary protection to the BATA outlets across the Country

"I urge all the all the BJP supporters to buy only BATA shoes or Chappal as symbol of our support to those Dealers / company" our slogan for next election would be " BATA paheno aur Desh Badao"

7)Laalu Prasad : Yeh baat joh huyi hai .. woh bada galath baath hai.. Mere kayal se woh banda...apna prime minister ko joothe gift karna chaa raha thaa..par woh conference meet mein bahut beed thaa... woh banda Prime ke paasss jaaake joothe nahi de paaya isliye usne joothe apne jage se prime minister ke pass faenka aur woh joothe seedhe jaake PM ke oopar lag gaya.. yeh itna sa hii baath hai...isko media aur BJP waalon bada kar rahe hai...

8. Congress Spokemen after CWC meet at Sonia's home : In the CWC meet , the prime minister says sorry to the committee for not having taken right decision of ducking his head at an appropriate time but Sonia ji has come in support of PM stating that there was no mistake of the prime minister in this whole incident.

9) IB Statement : The suspect has acted as per the external element. We are interrogating him continuously.

10) The suspect :

Even 100 Nethaji's would not be able to change this country. I threw the shoes at PM for only these reasons

a) Inaction against the real terrorists

b) Not saving innocent Tamil from being slaughtered by Srilankan

c) Being the most puppet character to have lead the Nation.

My name is Karthick and I am a common Indian who wants to change the system in this country haunted by corrupt politicians.