Waiting irritates me...and that too when you are waiting for a reply that decides whether you earn $700-800 a month, and more importantly, whether you will get a great opportunity to learn and do something at a professional level, the impatience levels soar high... I had an interview in the Institutinal Web Support Services department..I prepared for it over the weekend..PHP, JavaScript and XML...and was expecting an answer by yesterday noon...but didnt get one till six o'clock in the evening. And finally the response was negative:-(
Was expecting it to turn out to be good, coz the no. of applicants were less and more importantly, my interview had been good. Not too many technical questions asked. And I guess I handled them well. Guess the problem was with the skills that I put down on my resume. I hand't put anything 'extra' on my resume, coz I feared the embarassment of not being able to answer about any technology that was on my resume...and I went for the 'anti-Microsoft' camp so to say...Apache web server instead of IIS, php instead of ASP.NET, Dreamweaver instead of Frontpage, Oracle instead of MS SQL, etc..but it turned out that these guys are looking to move everything to the Microsoft platform...well whatever, I missed the bus. So instead of earning 700-800 dollars doing intelligent work for 20 hours a week, I will need to do 40 hours a week of donkey work in the cafeteria or at any of the dorms to earn a lesser amount. They say, you win some....and you lose some...but I believe that it todays world, it's a little different...."Only if you dont lose any...you will probably win one"...
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Have been playing volleyball a good bit these days, with American guys and girls..they usually play well and their height gives them the natural advantage...the good part is that we play in the sand pit, and thus I can dive around freely and be an acrobat..and the best part is that I get with skimpily dressed pretty girls... :-)..though that's really not the reason why I like to play with Americans...really...
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I was (s)elected the Vice President of the Indian Students Association. So it's gonna be some work over the next year. But I'm looking forward to it. Hope I can do something good.
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Something shitty is going on in the company where I used to work, before coming to the US..some people have been arbitarily fired, in the name of an Employee Referral Allowance Racket. And I have been hearing other stories not really worth mentioning becuase of their nature...and why I feel sorry for the guys fired is that they were fired right at the time when they were to be given their yearly bonuses..which can easily be around Rs. 40000-50000. You work your ass off the whole year..and then get fired for something that you didn't do. Well, thats corporate culture, eh?? I really like that company, the owners have a great record and a resume to truly boast about, but over the years, I have started hating businesses where 'morality' recedes below the bottomline and money remains the only prerogative. And although, I know the following words are the ultimate truth, with which people at the upper echleons of corporates/government will totally agree, I hate them : Everybody is expendable
Was expecting it to turn out to be good, coz the no. of applicants were less and more importantly, my interview had been good. Not too many technical questions asked. And I guess I handled them well. Guess the problem was with the skills that I put down on my resume. I hand't put anything 'extra' on my resume, coz I feared the embarassment of not being able to answer about any technology that was on my resume...and I went for the 'anti-Microsoft' camp so to say...Apache web server instead of IIS, php instead of ASP.NET, Dreamweaver instead of Frontpage, Oracle instead of MS SQL, etc..but it turned out that these guys are looking to move everything to the Microsoft platform...well whatever, I missed the bus. So instead of earning 700-800 dollars doing intelligent work for 20 hours a week, I will need to do 40 hours a week of donkey work in the cafeteria or at any of the dorms to earn a lesser amount. They say, you win some....and you lose some...but I believe that it todays world, it's a little different...."Only if you dont lose any...you will probably win one"...
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Have been playing volleyball a good bit these days, with American guys and girls..they usually play well and their height gives them the natural advantage...the good part is that we play in the sand pit, and thus I can dive around freely and be an acrobat..and the best part is that I get with skimpily dressed pretty girls... :-)..though that's really not the reason why I like to play with Americans...really...
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I was (s)elected the Vice President of the Indian Students Association. So it's gonna be some work over the next year. But I'm looking forward to it. Hope I can do something good.
*******
Something shitty is going on in the company where I used to work, before coming to the US..some people have been arbitarily fired, in the name of an Employee Referral Allowance Racket. And I have been hearing other stories not really worth mentioning becuase of their nature...and why I feel sorry for the guys fired is that they were fired right at the time when they were to be given their yearly bonuses..which can easily be around Rs. 40000-50000. You work your ass off the whole year..and then get fired for something that you didn't do. Well, thats corporate culture, eh?? I really like that company, the owners have a great record and a resume to truly boast about, but over the years, I have started hating businesses where 'morality' recedes below the bottomline and money remains the only prerogative. And although, I know the following words are the ultimate truth, with which people at the upper echleons of corporates/government will totally agree, I hate them : Everybody is expendable
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Where's your birthday blog, buddy?
The Matrix has you...
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