Maybe this should be over at my Work blog, but it's more of an attitude thing.
Since transitioning to a new company owner, I've come across many frustrations. Since the new owner is a huge company (92,000+), there are the big brother issues. Every time I open Internet Explorer, I have to log in. If I want to access the company Intranet site, I have to log in...to each site. They seriously need to allow single sign on.
Also, it's an Indian company. The list for this one is way too long to go into, but here are a few items. Language. I swear, they make up words and phrases and then propagate those around the company. They say things like, "do the needful", "today morning", "today itself", "many happy returns of the day", and my personal favorite is "revert". Revert is used in this manner: "Do the needful and revert with the same."
When we were in the early stages of integration I was constantly asking someone to slow down, speak clearly, and what the heck does that mean?. Now that we've been doing this for seven or so months, I'm getting good. Heck, I'm even translating from American into Indian and vice-versa on a regular basis.
The last thing I'll list on this is my change of responsibilities. In the beginning of this I was the IT Manager. My role was managing the three or four IT employees, network specialist, subject matter expert for our product and how it relates to clients networks, and other various fun and exciting roles. My favorite was the networking. Firewalls, routing, and switching. Now, all of that is handled off-shore. I do some VLAN port assigning from time-to-time, but that's about it. Now it's pretending to know who I report to, who reports to me, and crying about the speed (or lack thereof) of the WAN link. Oh, and I was de-moted to Assistant Manager, even though there is no Manager on-site.
Long story short, I was doing a lot of complaining. I mean A LOT. This morning, a co-worker and I were discussing how much easier everything is going now that we've both decided to go with the flow. We have both stopped looking at issues that come up as the end of the world. Now, we just work with it. So our end-users don't get what they want as quickly as they did when we were a small company. That was like a thousand pounds lifting off my shoulders.
Now I just need to get in this groove and get back on the certification track.
पुन्हा भेटू ( pU-nhA bhe-tU ) This is "Goodbye" in Marathi, one of the languages spoken in India.
1 comments:
I always liked "Do the needful". Did alot of work with the Indians over the last few years - I think it was with your new company, by the way.
Cool attitude towards the integration, btw. At least you can use the larger company's resources as leverage with your suppliers, to get better deals, etc. Resisting integration hardly ever works out well for the "acquired". I hate that, but it's true.
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