It cannot get tougher ... Review on Dealing with Tough Times at Work / Job

I hate titles. It takes long to think of one; longer than to write the review itself.

Right … trying to get to the topic, you can never bluntly say “Tough times at work”; there should be something that is specific you are bothered about. That’s how you straight away start dealing with it …

Define your problem

It is not too tough to define your problem. If you are not too sure what your problem is but totally pissed off at work, even then it is easy to define the problem. At the most you would be either complaining about work or no work. Take either route and do an RCA(Root Cause Analysis) and you would invariably end up with the pointers pointing your own dirty attitude or your manager alias immediate-boss(default value for the pointer is null). There can be some exceptions like job satisfaction, pay hike, etc. But these can be handled very easily. Think whether you are worth the amount your company is paying you, that should help.

If there is anything ambiguous in the above para, you should understand that I am a programmer in Software industry. I was asked to do Problem definition at the beginning of anything; but never have been instructed to define it correctly.

*Define yourself

After defining the problem, it helps if you define yourself as to who you are in the place you are put up. With some experience, even that should be easy. You are not a person but a *resource with bandwidth *(not different from an OFC [Optical Fiber Cable] lying around in your company building) that will not be recognized of existence, unless there is a crash. Now, face the mirror and hold an OFC near your face and try to do a compare. You might end up with the hard truth that the OFC gives better value to the organization and in that case bury the OFC, sorry the truth(think I should be drunk; no, just sleepy) and move on.

Right now …

You should be feeling better having read all the confusing stuff above(or should have caught some problem, if you were happy before reading this). If you are still not OK(or OK), I strongly suggest you to iterate(loop back) to the first para.

This write-up was not to motivate you or de-motivate you or even to help you deal with tough times at work. If you still insist that I should adhere to non-functional requirement of sticking to the topic, and want me to help you deal with tough times at work, let me tell you this: babbling in the midnight in a soft-copy document might be of some use. Still not convinced? If you want to deal or not deal with tough times, you still have to get up the next day morning and go to office. You cannot avoid it. That makes this entire topic irrelevant, and I don’t write on irrelevant topics!

Smiles,

Vinayak

(Friendz .

sorry for not RRCing your revs …

have been dealing with …

shall check them all out this weekend)

Did you know: The normalization done in appraisals is nothing but a hyped-up term for compare. But when you compare, you would be asked not to