Me Myself and My PM Note : Unlike my previous posts this is not true story.. All characters in this are fictious and any resemblence to real world characters is just a coincidence and not intensional...
Not Long Long ago, Not So Long ago .... it happened only in the near past and still happening
Dunno if this may carry on or not....
After being in
Project Bench - A new Term which means u ll be in project , even be billed but dont do any So called work..
I moved in to a competency development team on a PLM Package... Competency here refers not to excelling your skills but learning that package from ABCD....Stop Stop.. only till ABCD and not a letter after that...
Then we say to others that have so many functional, techincal competent Blah Blah Blah... people with us.... What an easy way to say fool Clients...
Myself who still do not a know a clear cut definition for PLM has competency in two PLM pacakges.....( According to people above me )..
Thats is more than enough we ll staright away move in to the story!!!!!!
Initial days went well Hmm those were the days.. If some one says the name Janakan..
Ohh he is a hard working guy does not waste even a second blah blah blah....
My first Damage came during my diwali holidays... Happily going to my home town on a long vacation... i was some 100 kms away from my Work place.. travelling in a BUS
Mobile ringed.. Office number.... seemed to be one of my competencey building mate
( when there is project mate , team mate , bench mate there can be competencey building mate also )..
Call went like this.. Janakan u r asked by our PM to be in hyderabad 2 days after diwali.. and that place is some 36 hr journey from my place... which means i need to start the next day after diwali and diwali was only 3 days to go.. so my long vacation was brought to a short vacation...
Next day went to Railway station to check for tickets.. no vancancy in the class SE's are allowed to travel.. only available was first AC so decided to let my PM know my situation.
called him..
Myself : Hi only first AC is avaiable...
PM : It is ok .. no probs see to that u r attending the session which
starts at 8:15.. ( no matter u come by CART or Caravan)
Myslef : Thanks Boss...
Back in Bangalore after 2 weeks of trng in hyderabad...Time to file the reimbursements...
It has to be initially approved by my PM... My ticket cost to hyderabad was a huge amount coming some where aroung 2800 INR...
My First Image Damage.. He calls me .. "Janakan u have filed for the entire trip from ur home town to hyderabad.. This is not fare.. how come your company pay for that ...."
( In Mind ) who the hell should pay for it, Me.. What is he thinking...
Myself..In a polite voice.. This is a situation and i have clearly informed u ..
PM slightly in rough voice.. No Janakan i cant recommend for this i shall add a comment saying that u can reimburse for the amount only from ur base location ie bangalore ro hyderabad... u should have come to bangalore and then left for hyderabad.. ( In mind )..
What is he thinking Am i running Indian Railways to get tickets to whichever place and at whatever time He wants...
This time slightly changing my tone ( My first time ever to a person above me )
"If that is the case i would not have come to hyderabad on the day u wanted.. It was you who wanted me to be there sharp at 8:15 AM Monday.."
Converastion getting slighlty worse..
PM .. ( Like a typical PM ) ok we ll this offline may be afternoon then we shall decide.. and i wa OK with it...
The day passed no call from him....
Next Day ... Happyily opening my mailbox to check mails.. There was a automated mail from the system saying that my reimbursement request was approved and when i opened it had all these
Blah blah comments ..
What can some one expect me to do with such a PM... I decided to reopen the request with my side of comments ... submitted it..
Next Day.. same automated mail from system.. opened the request.. oh my god.. he had approved the request by deleting my comments and leaving out his..
Scrap the system I would say.. It allows my PM to delete my comments and not myself to delete his comments..
Things seemed to get childish.. so tried out a diff method and got my money back
How i got back my money is a different story altogether..
My Second Damage It was my appraisal Feed Back. Since i was new to him all my task were evaluated by my previous PM and had given their comments.. He had nothing to do with that.. Thank God..
It was a 1 - 1 meeting.. I would call it as a Complaint meeting rather than appraisal meeting..
PM : .. I had few things that u should take in mind...
Myself : .. nodding head
PM :   Situation is we are expecting some projects in near future.. till that time we need to carry out this competency building.. dont think that we may have to be like this for long and demotivate others... I am not saying that u did it but dont get into such a situation...
  .. U can be free but not like taking 30 min for coffee and go here and there.. Dont think that i am particularly pointing you.. people have this tendency to do all this...
 .. whatever we are doing should focus on functional concepts.. leave out that technical funda aside.. ( He had seen me doing some coding ... situation had changed now that he had asked me to do the coding . Now I beleive God is there )
  .. Dont think that u r PM is some fool who do not know the difference between textpad , command screen and the package screen.. ( My place was on the way to do door.. so whenever he crosse me his eye were on my monitor )
In My Mind... Your are not a fool but u look like a hitler who had taken rebirth to to torture me in your concentration camp...
Myself .. (In Mind ).. Ok Boss is the list over or still more....
PM : One more thing is your Groom.. all this beard take it off.. and no sandals..
( What else can i have for myself )
At last comes the punch line which made me speech less..
PM : Dont take this all negative.. You r like my younger brother that s y i telling u all this with care..
What else can i say after this to my
big bhaiyya...
My third Damage One of my friend had send me link for viewing SS music online.. so used to watch it sometimes.. and my bad time is that whenever i watch SS music my PM watches me.. (
7 : 30 (Sani bhagvan) is aroung my neck ) So he comes asked my cubicle mate..
"hei .. Does Janakan come and work late nights or during week ends.."
He was surprised and said "No .. Y do u aks this ..."
PM 's Reply .. " When ever i see him he is doing some thing other than work.. so wanted to know when he really works :) ( If he really does something called work )"....
What else good name can a SE can get from a PM....
I used to think .. Dai.. UR name is badly damaged da.. do something to reconstruct ur reputation... but after this i have no hope that i would get it back..
So Let it go ... and happily watch SS Music.....