It's very clearly my real life frustration coming out but what's a better way to vent than a post :)
Very short and sweet for a change :)
Read through...
Hi,
Thanks a lot for your desperate mail, phone calls and SMS. Sorry I can’t mail, speak or SMS back to you today. Don’t try knocking my door as well, I am not in my room.
I am away on duty today. No, I don’t have any client meetings or travel… I will be busy doing settlement of my last trip. This was week before last and after sending 3 reminders they have threatened to cut my salary – it’s quarter end and if I don’t settle my trip, the results would be off by 0.000037% which of course is not acceptable.
It’s a different matter that after the much sought after trip, I have been again traveling all the time… I pointed this out to the juniormost clerk of this company and he had gracefully extended the deadline by a day which happens to be today.
Naveen, sorry, I cant review the Rs 250cr proposal that we are working on and Sanjay, I cant take that escalation call from the client. Radha, your CRR can wait. Prashant, you can forget about the 360-degree feedback – I know today is the last date but juniormost clerk’s command is more important than your career.
Ps – I am actually in the office but I have locked the door from inside and unhooked the phone so that I can “settle in peace”
Happy Christmas!!
Best regards,
Uday Bhaskarwar
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Thursday, December 20, 2007
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Open Door Policy...
I keep the door closed in the office… which means I belong to the “pointy hair’ category of Dilbert and have a cabin of my own…
Anyway, when I say closed, I don’t lock it from inside or anything… in fact, I leave the key in the keyhole when I unlock the door every morning (some technical cynics would say “afternoon” but that's irrelevant in the context) and if someone is really up to playing a prank on me, they can lock me from outside (hope I am not inviting trouble here!)…
Anyway, more often than not, some joker (more often than not a guy named Sandeep) would pop in and grin into my face saying “why don’t you keep your door open? Haven’t you heard of open door policy?”… I have heard this comment so many times that I wonder now if open door policy is all (or also) about keeping the door open… I thought it was figure of speech but may be there is a literal meaning involved…
But there are intricacies involved… My cabin seems to be built of some material which is an excellent conductor of sound… what this means is that I am able to hear all the comments passed by people passing my cabin… what are these comments? No comments! May be keeping door open will help in this case…
But if I really keep the door open – which I am forced to in an unfortunate case of a power failure or something like that – it’s trouble both ways. Many of my conversations are loud and nasty and I don’t think they are really pleasant for my neighbors… And other way round, the stylish ring tones could really be distracting when in deep thought – the latest and greatest I heard most recently was a small child going “message aaya, message aaya, message aaya, message aaya, message aaaaaya” for incoming messages… God bless you my friend…
When I was in London till 2 years back, I had a cabin with no roof and there was an opening in the wall for coming in/going out (yeah, yeah, it was a cubicle)… There were times I would have very loud and heated discussion on the phone and after hanging up I would realize that there were some 10-15 pairs of bloodthirsty eyes staring at me…
Net-net, I think I know better than keeping the door open – whatever my critiques say…
In any case, i decided to look up for "open door policy" on the net to quench my thirst for the ultimate knowledge...
so what exactly is the open door policy?
The Wikipedia definition says -
"The Open Door Policy is a concept in foreign affairs stating that, in principle, all nations should have equal commercial and industrial trade rights in China"
It talks about China in 19th century. Ha! I bet you did not know about this!
Even if you google for "open door policy", the number of links on management difinition is a poor cousin of the China thingy.
That brings me to this week’s poll (pretty abrupt end, ain't it?)–
(oh my gosh, how many times do i need to telll you to scroll down?)
Anyway, when I say closed, I don’t lock it from inside or anything… in fact, I leave the key in the keyhole when I unlock the door every morning (some technical cynics would say “afternoon” but that's irrelevant in the context) and if someone is really up to playing a prank on me, they can lock me from outside (hope I am not inviting trouble here!)…
Anyway, more often than not, some joker (more often than not a guy named Sandeep) would pop in and grin into my face saying “why don’t you keep your door open? Haven’t you heard of open door policy?”… I have heard this comment so many times that I wonder now if open door policy is all (or also) about keeping the door open… I thought it was figure of speech but may be there is a literal meaning involved…
But there are intricacies involved… My cabin seems to be built of some material which is an excellent conductor of sound… what this means is that I am able to hear all the comments passed by people passing my cabin… what are these comments? No comments! May be keeping door open will help in this case…
But if I really keep the door open – which I am forced to in an unfortunate case of a power failure or something like that – it’s trouble both ways. Many of my conversations are loud and nasty and I don’t think they are really pleasant for my neighbors… And other way round, the stylish ring tones could really be distracting when in deep thought – the latest and greatest I heard most recently was a small child going “message aaya, message aaya, message aaya, message aaya, message aaaaaya” for incoming messages… God bless you my friend…
When I was in London till 2 years back, I had a cabin with no roof and there was an opening in the wall for coming in/going out (yeah, yeah, it was a cubicle)… There were times I would have very loud and heated discussion on the phone and after hanging up I would realize that there were some 10-15 pairs of bloodthirsty eyes staring at me…
Net-net, I think I know better than keeping the door open – whatever my critiques say…
In any case, i decided to look up for "open door policy" on the net to quench my thirst for the ultimate knowledge...
so what exactly is the open door policy?
The Wikipedia definition says -
"The Open Door Policy is a concept in foreign affairs stating that, in principle, all nations should have equal commercial and industrial trade rights in China"
It talks about China in 19th century. Ha! I bet you did not know about this!
Even if you google for "open door policy", the number of links on management difinition is a poor cousin of the China thingy.
That brings me to this week’s poll (pretty abrupt end, ain't it?)–
(oh my gosh, how many times do i need to telll you to scroll down?)
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