New Job

I have been looking for a change for quite some time. Now that’s difficult because I am very picky.

I finally got an offer from a really good company. It wasn’t easy but was definitely worth the wait. The “wasn’t easy” part will be good conversation material when I am in a mood to brag. I put in my papers roughly 2 weeks back and have to stay here for 2 more.

I am anxious to join the new job. The new organization is a huge company with over 30000 people in it. I would have considered myself lucky to get an associate level job but they gave me a senior team manager post and that’s one level up from my current profile.

So basically now I am an official guest here. I am giving trainings and handover to my colleagues. A typical day begins with login and checking my mails and forwarding them to the colleagues for action. Then a game of Table Tennis. Then back to the system and reading all the junk mails… Today I am also writing this blog entry. Then I go for lunch and play some more TT. Then some meetings if any and more TT and then back home.

The team has planned a weeklong party for my farewell and I will let you form your own inferences from this.

Thank God its FRIDAY

Its been a pretty rough week these past 5 days.

Lots of meetings and Lots of work.... But I guess it hasnt killed me...

My brother and my cousin sister had their birthdays yesterday and I have to buy gifts for them
Cant think of any yet.

Funny Incident

Our team at the office is a clever lot. We handle development of custom applications for our company and the group is a mixed bag of programmers and database specialists. We have a lot of fun on the job, with jokes and humor flowing around keeping everyone’s spirits high and the work is smooth. No one feels Monday blues or tiredness.

So yesterday one of the guys called me from my desk and asked me for my help. He said that since I am good at SQL, I should be able to help at this difficult SQL problem. So I walked over and he asks me to configure a printer at his system. Man am I flabbergasted / pissed / amused at the same time. I asked him what the relation of SQL and configuring a Printer is. He says that they are both to be installed on the same machine.

So anyways we are all laughing and then I help him to setup the printer and he opens word and types “Hello” and gives a print. Some problem with the security and so I configure the second network printer and when we are about to test this one, another co-worker (who was watching and laughing) says it wont work. We ask why and he says that you should write “Hello World” and then it will work.

Long Delay

Havn't had a lot of time or inclination to update this blog for past few days...

today I got an invite from google analytics and thought that i would shift this blog (which has some readers) from www.statcounter.com to www.google-analytics.com

Lets see how this turns out...

I will update my month gone by in a couple of days.