Falling apart
That summarizes what I am going through and why I haven't been posting lately .
A lot of things have been going wrong , very very wrong .And I am trying to grapple with the facts of facing the after effects of a few wrong decisions , very wrong decisions.And not helping it further are a series of unfortunate happenings at home and personal life ...
My Dear Reader , I am at the crossroads now , I think I am looking at it now , a Mid Life Crisis .Yes , I think I am having it now .
Hasty decisions often prove to be costly and in my case that is happening .One of the most important things that you need to be at peace with is where you execute your daily business of earning a livelihood.I urge all of you to put enuf due diligence into the process of selecting the place .Because sometimes , it turns out that the place is great , absolutely fantastico ! and you too are nothing short of a genius , but put together the combination does not yield results .Meaning that the equations sucks at both ends .And when that happens , daily life becomes a drone and that can kill your mind , body and soul very painfully .
The next thing I want to tell you is about the most misunderstood word in the software industry ; a Performance Improvement Plan .Well at face value , you think that this is a plan to improve your performance .It is not ! It is just a heads up and notification to start looking out .If you take actual numbers , the number of people who actually come out successful from a PIP is dismally low .Why ? Here is what I think .Although the intentions are there .The execution matters a lot .And the way these PIP are executed are very far from professional/desirable.There are various ways in which they are executed ; one of the most popular ones is the method of assigning a simple but impossible task to be completed in a week.For example : Move to UCM in the next week ! .
The next popular method is the hounding method .Here the boss chooses a hound ( a person/colleague) and asks him to start hounding the guy in PIP.The objective hound him to the extent that he throws up his arms and goes by himself , a win-win !
I must say that both these methods do not aim at improving performance but at making the guy quit and they invariably work all the time .I am telling you as an Engineer and a Manager .They work damn well !
One side , we go crying wolf that people are hopping like rabbits across companies and that retention is the eternal challenge .On the other end we have HR chiefs reading through all your work from home mails to count the number of days where it looks less than 8 hrs so that it becomes half a day off !! Then there are the band of mouthies m the folks who work with their mouths and cannot stand people who work with their brains and hands .It is amazing how the mouthies often find management favor easier than the real techies .The just sail along after that .No worries !!
We are going to a world where you can pull out your mobile phone and say "restaurants" and it shows you a list of restaurants based on a profile of your likings and preferences and even your budget .Then it goes on to download the route to your selection into your car after booking a parking slot and a table for you .If it is a long drive , you can order and the e-wallet on your phone pays for you while you are getting there .
To make this happen , we need to keep the Human Resources human and not turn them into zombies .Encourage and foster trust and try and make them belong and not report to you .Ahh ! Utopia !! Where is it ?
A lot of things have been going wrong , very very wrong .And I am trying to grapple with the facts of facing the after effects of a few wrong decisions , very wrong decisions.And not helping it further are a series of unfortunate happenings at home and personal life ...
My Dear Reader , I am at the crossroads now , I think I am looking at it now , a Mid Life Crisis .Yes , I think I am having it now .
Hasty decisions often prove to be costly and in my case that is happening .One of the most important things that you need to be at peace with is where you execute your daily business of earning a livelihood.I urge all of you to put enuf due diligence into the process of selecting the place .Because sometimes , it turns out that the place is great , absolutely fantastico ! and you too are nothing short of a genius , but put together the combination does not yield results .Meaning that the equations sucks at both ends .And when that happens , daily life becomes a drone and that can kill your mind , body and soul very painfully .
The next thing I want to tell you is about the most misunderstood word in the software industry ; a Performance Improvement Plan .Well at face value , you think that this is a plan to improve your performance .It is not ! It is just a heads up and notification to start looking out .If you take actual numbers , the number of people who actually come out successful from a PIP is dismally low .Why ? Here is what I think .Although the intentions are there .The execution matters a lot .And the way these PIP are executed are very far from professional/desirable.There are various ways in which they are executed ; one of the most popular ones is the method of assigning a simple but impossible task to be completed in a week.For example : Move to UCM in the next week ! .
The next popular method is the hounding method .Here the boss chooses a hound ( a person/colleague) and asks him to start hounding the guy in PIP.The objective hound him to the extent that he throws up his arms and goes by himself , a win-win !
I must say that both these methods do not aim at improving performance but at making the guy quit and they invariably work all the time .I am telling you as an Engineer and a Manager .They work damn well !
One side , we go crying wolf that people are hopping like rabbits across companies and that retention is the eternal challenge .On the other end we have HR chiefs reading through all your work from home mails to count the number of days where it looks less than 8 hrs so that it becomes half a day off !! Then there are the band of mouthies m the folks who work with their mouths and cannot stand people who work with their brains and hands .It is amazing how the mouthies often find management favor easier than the real techies .The just sail along after that .No worries !!
We are going to a world where you can pull out your mobile phone and say "restaurants" and it shows you a list of restaurants based on a profile of your likings and preferences and even your budget .Then it goes on to download the route to your selection into your car after booking a parking slot and a table for you .If it is a long drive , you can order and the e-wallet on your phone pays for you while you are getting there .
To make this happen , we need to keep the Human Resources human and not turn them into zombies .Encourage and foster trust and try and make them belong and not report to you .Ahh ! Utopia !! Where is it ?
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