Time for some Manager-Bashing!!!

As the title suggests, in this post I'm gonna do some serious manager-bashing...I'm sure it'll make me feel great at the end of it!!! Hehe...
So, I've got these two managers who are absolute idiots (that's a very decent word I've used here for both of them!!!)...One of them is my People Manager, a concept prevalent only in IBM I guess...And the other is a Project Manager (not mine thank god!!!) who's been incharge of us since we joined IBM...We are his responsibility, he tells us n we keep getting him in trouble all the time!!! That does feel nice especially when we are being given the firing of our lives...Now this guy is a freak I tell you, an absolute weirdo...Maybe being in the IT industry for so long does this to a person!!! So anyway, this chap is the moodiest person I've ever come across I think...You never know what's gonna happen next with him...One minute he's very nice to you n in a jovial mood n the next he's lost his temper n is blasting you away!!! During that time you can't put in a word for yourself because he just refuses to listen to you or even to reason...So the best way to handle him then is to let him blow his steam n once he cools down to present your side of the story...But this sure as hell takes a lot of patience (which I sorely lack!!!) n it tends to irritate everyone around...He's also a very bad communicator n atleast I, most of the time, hardly understand exactly what it is that he wants me to do!!! I dunno how the people in his project cope up with all this...Two of my friends are working under him and everyday they are either pulling out their hair in frustration or cursing their fate!!! Poor girls...
Coming now to my People Manager....She's the one who does my reviews, approves my leaves, does my appraisals...In short, she's the one who can screw me up big time!!! And that's exactly what she's doing I think...First of all she gives me bad reviews...Then she rejects my sick leaves too!!! Tells me to take paid leaves as I have lots of them...Thanks to her, I now have only three n a half PL's left!!!! Grrr...And all this she does sitting in Mumbai!!! Can you believe it??? As my friend says, she's good...N mind you he wasn't being sarcastic at all...He was just saying that as a manager she's good, because she knows how to screw people!!! Thanks to her and some more of this obnoxious breed called managers, I'm still on bench, waiting for a project to come my way...Sometime back, they wanted me to shift to some other city too!!! They pressurized me a lot, but I was pretty adamant about not going so it was dropped...
So there!!! That actually felt very good!!! Now the next time I'm frustrated n angry wid my managers, I'm again gonna give vent to my feelings in this way...It's a really great way to destress n clear your mind too...I hope you guys enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it...Cheers!!!

One Night at the Taj Blue Diamond

I sometimes like going to pubs n discs here in Pune...You get quite a nice crowd n the music is generally good...Last Saturday night, I'd been to Taj Blue Diamond's disc, Polaris...What a letdown it was!!! First of all, the crowd...I felt the majority of it was 28 plus and a crowd like that sucks when you want to have fun n let your hair down...Not that people over 28 years don't know how to have fun, it's just that with a crowd nearer your own age group it's way more exciting!!! Then there was the dance floor itself...I think it's the tiniest one I've ever seen so far...When we first entered the disc (at 10.30 or so I may add), it looked more like a lounge than anythin else...Plus the dance floor was absolutely empty!!! So, we sat down for sometime grumbling, complaining about the place and giving gaalis to the person who suggested it in the first place...BTW we still don't know who was the wise guy who wanted to come here!!! So anyway, the mavericks that we all are, we said what the hell??!! An empty dance floor shouldn't stop us from not enjoying ourselves right? So we got on the dance floor n started grooving away!!! The music was pathetic in the beginning and everybody else absolutely refused to come on to the dance floor...Ours was the only group who was there n we were enjoying ourselves thoroughly...Slowly, as the music started getting better, the dance floor started filling up...The DJ started playing hip-hop numbers in between and the floor could still accomodate everybody without anyone having to jostle for space...Then he started off with the Hindi movie songs and just about everyone there wanted to dance!!! It was as it is pretty hot n stuffy there n with the addition of more people and the dancing, everybody started sweating like anything!!! Soon there was no space to even move a hand or a leg forget shaking them!!! So, all of us were just jumping on the spot or moving our hands vertically...We must've danced for 2 hours atleast n the music was at last stopped at 1 in the morning...After a photo session in which all of us look tired, hot n sweaty, we decided to go home...N since the next day was a Sunday, most of us took that full day to recover before Monday morning took us back to work n back to our routine...

Thank You for the Music

As most of you people know, music is my life...so I thought why not write about something that actually runs in my blood!!!
So, music...as the song by ABBA goes, "What would life be? Without a song or dance what are we?" If you actually sit down and think, what would life be like without the beautiful sounds of music? How would countless number of people express themselves without this absolutely wonderful gift of nature (and man-made instruments of course!!! But the basic premise lies with nature itself)? Because with the help of music you can express any emotion you feel, be it happiness, sadness, wooing someone, being in love, getting ur heart broken, patriotism and many more...Music makes your heart sing along with it and it can lift up your spirits even wen you're really down in the dumps...Kickass songs can make you feel good about yourself when you've been rejected or whatever (I personally love those songs!!!)...You've got songs by Avril Lavigne which are odes to individuality and then again you have songs by Evanescence which are deep, dark and sometimes quite disturbing...Classic rock songs can be heard even in this day and age when genres like death metal and trash metal are so prevalent...I personally can't listen to heavy metal as I feel it atually trashes the sanctity of music...
One of my all time favourite bands is ABBA...now here's a group who knew how to make music...their songs cut across generations and are popular even today...Both my grandfathers were fans of ABBA, my parents still are and I will always be!!! I can't exactly pick one song which is my favourite but I love Fernando, Chiquitita, Eagle, S.O.S, The Winner Takes It All and lots more...I can't exactly give the list out here!!! And now for the paradigm shift from pop to rock...Evanescence is another all time favourite with me...Its lead singer Amy Lee has an amazingly powerful voice and the songs which they write and compose are all about hurt and pain...Their music is Gothic in nature and it somehow appeals to my more darker side (yes I do have a darker side)!!! Avril Lavigne is another artiste whom I absolutely adore...Her devil-may-care attitude shows in her songs and I can listen to them again and again...Then there are songs by Nirvana, Guns n Roses, Eagles, Eric Clapton and other classic rock gods which I love and can identify with...
Then of course who can forget our very own Hindi movie songs? Some of them rock I tell you...My current favourites are Ajab Si from Om Shanti Om and Saawariya from the movie of the same name...There are a lotta other Hindi songs I like from various movies...Can't really write all of them here so it'll suffice to say that there are loads of them!!!
Anyway, I think I'll sign off now...Took me two days to write this post and frankly speakin I'm a bit tired of it now!!! So, till the next time...Adios!!!