Lady In The Gogs 2

Lady in the Gogs -part2 continues from one of my post Lady in the Gogs in 2010.

So, what exactly happens when a beautiful lady or a pretty girl gets settle in the team? Does the fellow team mates keep doing their work normally? Do they notice the addition in team? Does any change occurs in the work atmosphere?

Well, I guess you will not feel any difficulty to answer these questions if you are working under an IT firm. Being working in an IT firm I have my observations for above questions and also the experiences as shared by other IT friends so generally what happens is:-

The girl joins the firm or moved in your team from some other team, the moment team get the news of new member’s arrival  everyone starts looking for the empty bench which may get allotted to her and then start envying those lucky team members around that empty bench as they are going to be her so called neighbors. Suddenly this stupid empty bench seems lucky to the people around it as everyone want to be a good neighbor and these people gets the reward of “getting more chances to talk to her” as luckiest draw reward.(Why not lucky draw? Keep on reading…)

Yes, that’s true, people around New Member in Team get more chances to talk as compared to others as these are the people who help the NMT in setting up network related things and other knowhow of team related things.

Once the luckiest team mates are identified then comes the turn of lucky team mate in form a very sweet term of IT “Buddy” or “Mentor”. A Buddy or a Mentor is that person who is responsible for sharing the knowledge of project related things and organizational related things to the NMT. Buddy/Mentor can be any one from the team who has the full of knowledge of project, so, the Mentor will mostly interact with the NMT till the moment NMT is comfortable in the project. After this, NMT is assigned to project activities and usual office life starts.

You know, one of the main and important ingredient in the making of any software is nicotine or caffeine, without it it may not have been developed. Ab software develop karne waala bhi insaan hi he and bina coffee,chai and sutte k to dimaag hi nahin chalta so ye hua na main and important ingredient!! J. So, everybody goes out from the office (kyunki office me installed vending machine ki chai me wo baat kahan aati he….) to have a cup of tea, coffee or sutta (Cigi aka Cigarette) and wouldn’t it be rude to not to ask the NMT for the Nicot/Cafeine breaks J, after all it makes other people envy when they see that pretty NMT with you or your group. <Same goes for lunch as well>

One can easily observe a change in the work atmosphere after the addition of NMT on the floor, kaise? Aise:-

 1. More people can be seen walking, most of the time with their water bottle to refill or with a cup of tea/coffee from the break out area.

 2. Frequency of technical discussions around the NMT increases.

 3. Friends of other team members around NMT start visiting them often for any reason and interestingly they do ask “kya baat aaj aayi nahin?” when the NMT do not comes to office.

As the time passes the NMT becomes old member in the team but the atmosphere around her (like strong fragrances of perfume/deodorants and things mentioned above) still exists. Colleagues become office friends, phone number and personal email ids gets exchanged followed by adding one more member in each other’s friend list on social networks, sometimes a love story happens and sometimes FOSLA (in case if you forgot the full form of it, it is Frustrated One Sided Lover’s Association) group welcomes their new member.

Whatever the case may be the story ends either with a sweet@my desk or with a Good Bye mail.

PS: I could have mentioned other things too when a Lady in the Gogs settles down in the team but I think this may get wacky on the public forum. If you really want to know those things then drop me a PM.

PPS: Aww! I just realized , this is my 100^th post on my blog. I have hit a century since 2008. :)

               

Ye Software kya he? Hota kya he ye?... Some Myths about IT Industry.

Ek baat batao, ye software kya he? Matlab hota kya he ye software?

Very logical question but how many time you have come across this question and have you answered this question and succeeded to make other person understand what is a software ?

Once you answer above question next comes what software does your company make?

Again a very logical and layman question but I think this one is more easy then the first one, isn’t it?

Coming across non-IT friends, relatives, strangers  you will notice that the moment you say that you are an IT guy, they have already made some assumptions about you which are some myths and some actuality. Some of the common myths which I come across are:-

Myth #1: If you haven't been onsite you are a loser.

Uncle:     Tum 3 saal se IT company mein kaam kar rahe ho na?
Me:           Ji uncle.
Uncle:     Tum videsh nahi gaye?
Me:           Nahi uncle project mein requirement nahi  hai onsite ki
Uncle:     Lekin woh Mahesh ko toh maanna padegaa.... vo chote sheher se hai..... aise hi kisi private 
                  college se degree ki and then job me usne jamke mehnat ki aur use company ne  USA bheja!   
                  Mehnat ka fal use mila he.

Hmmm!! That’s the problem. People think about software industry that the one who is smart and hard working are sent on site while the loser ones are the people left behind in India. So, the assumption is that if you haven't been on site then you don't work hard nor you have any kind of sincerity and.…. bas abhi k liye itna kaafi he :)

Myth #2: If you are not working under a big IT name you are a loser.

Auntyji:  Beta kya kaam karte ho? 

Me:       Aunty main Software company me kaam karta hoon?

Auntyji : Accha!! Beta, kaunsi company me?

Me:          Ji Aunty!! Main <company name> is company me kaam karta hoon.

Auntyji: Ye kaun si company he? Kabhi suna nahi? Kaha hai  ye? 
(Embarrassing me and asking all this as if she knows all things about software companies)

Me:           Ji Aunty, Ye….
Auntyji:  Tumko TCS/Wipro ya Infosys mein nahi mila kya? (In short: you are a dumb ass) 

After that I have to make efforts to tell them how I actually work in a much niche technology. In case the opposite person is technologically insane then I give him some product development 'funda' with my arrogance.

Myth #3: If you are an IT guy then you can fix any computer, calculator and may be clocks too.

 Friend:     Bhai, tu ek din ghar aaja, mere computer me kuch kharabi ho gayi he, tu dekh 

                   le.

Me:           Bhai, usme me kya dekhunga?

Friend:     Abey!! Tu to software company me kaam karta he aur tu aise keh rha he, tujhe 

                  nahin pta hoga to aur kise pta hoga?

Me:           Bhai, hardware related problem hogi to main kahan se dekhunga, I am not 

                  hardware expert…. Haan agar kuch settings related problem he to bta.

Friend:     Yaar  mujhe nahin pta tu kya bol rha he…tu ek baar aaja.

Well, actually I enjoy fixing things but most of the IT guys around must have at least faced a situation where a friend asked him to fix his /her comp. The task can be from installing a software (double click, next, next, finish) to fixing a computer which gives electric shocks when its metal areas are touched.

Myth #4:  Working in IT, you have lots of money.

Once my parents went to a family friend’s house at evening tea and there
Auntyji:     aur Bhabhiji, bête ne car le legi ho ab to?

Mom:        arey bhabhiji!! Kahan abhi car lega wo…. Hum to soch rahe hein uski bike 

                   bhijwa de wahan… public transport se travel karne badi dikkatein he 

                   Delhi/Noida me. 

Auntyji:     arey kya baat kar rahe ho aap. Aapka beta to Software company me kaam 

                   karta he… wo chahe to aapko car dila dey and aap usko uski purani bike bhejne 

                   ki baat kar rahe ho.

Mom:        Arey nahin, aisa nahin he…abhi to use job karte hue 2 saal hi hue hein… 

Ab who is going to tell them ki bete ki apni salary me se abhi bike khareedne ki aukat nahin he aur ye car ki baat kar rahe hein.

Myth #5:  Software job means a job in comfort.

Non IT people:   Arey!! Ye software company ka job mast hota he re. Pure din Air Conditioned me bethe raho aaram se aur computer pe chick chick karte raho (people sit nicely in front of computer and just punch the keys)

Well I don't completely disagree khaas tor se in summer season: D

Myth #6: You are working in Software company so get married.

Old people:     Arey ab to badiya kama rha he computer ki naukri me…ab iski shaadi kar 

                         do!!

Ek mahine ki salary akele insaan ka kharcha nahin nikalta, do log kahan se khayenge? J

Myth #7: Your office is more like a factory

People from different field (PFDF)

PFDF:     Kahan he tumhari factory?

Me:         Factory???

PFDF:    haan!! Factory, jahan tum jaate ho software banane.

Me:        Sector 59, Noida me.

PFDF:    Accha!! Naveda me he, kitne mazdoor he tumhari factory me?

Me:        honge karib 1000-1200 k aas pass

PFDF:    Arey!! Itne saare mazdoor tab to bahut badi hogi tumahri factory.

Me:        haan!!

PFDF:    Itne saare log lagein hein yo ek software banane me?

Me:        haan (jhooth bolne me bhalai he nahin to samjhane me dimaag phat jayega)

It looks weird to refer a software office as a factory but logically dekha jaaye to thik bhi he and hum log hein to mazdoor hi bas difference itna he ki we do mazdoori in air conditioned environment while other mazdoor do it in natural environment.

Myth #8: You know everybody in your office.

When you tell anybody that you work with XYZ Company, often you get a reply “My son/daughter/relative Mr/Ms XXX also works in ABC. Do you know him/her"? If you answer in the negative, they feel disappointed.

It is difficult to explain them that there are around thousands of employees in my company, and I cannot know everybody in my ODC, forget about knowing everybody in the company.

I hope most of you have come across these situations and many more such myths.

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PS: Software: Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provides the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it. Software refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of the computer for some reasons.

Kuch doubt he to yaar Wikipedia se pooch lo ya google kar lo :)

Lady in the Gogs

Why BPO section of a company have more pretty girls as compared to IT section? This imbalance of pretty girls leads IT guys to woo every other pretty girl walking down in the company premises.
Whenever a new girl get spotted in the company premises, two speculations are made:-
1. If she is looking like every other girl i.e. a girl in formals (not very stylish cloths) with less makeup carrying a descent hand bag than she is in the IT department.
2. If she is looking like a girl with Sun glasses either on her eyes or on her head, having more makeup, funky hand bag and stylish cloths than she is in BPO department.
When speculation second is valid than all eyes escorts her un till the moment she disappears.
Some Software firms maintains male to female ratio in a team and some do not believe in such kind of ratio, I am working in the second type of software firm so whenever a new girl walks down on the floor all guys who were working very seriously in their respective module do not miss the chance to have a glance at new girl apart from the fact that before hearing the news about that new girl they were completely lost in their screen.
One fine day we were discussing about something and all team members except one were facing towards the window and the one was facing towards the bay (space between two cubicles which is used to commute on the floor), during the discussion he suddenly rose his eye brows and his eyes became wide. This gesture of him was enough for all of us to conclude that he just saw a new good looking girl on our floor.We all asked him “What is it ??” he said “A girl in the Gogs..”
We all turned our face backwards and 10 eyes were searching for that girl, one team mate asked him “Where? in which direction…” he left his chair and said “I am gonna check whether she is release version 1.0 or 2.0”. I know, now you must be wondering what does release version 1.0 or 2.0 means w.r.t a girl. Well, release version 1.0 means a unmarried girl so there are more chances to date her apart from the possibility that she is already having a boy friend or not, release version 2.0 means a married girl who become a lady so chances to date her is negligible.
All the guys who saw her were curious and all were trying to find out answer of one question which is “does she came for a interview or to join our project ?” and answer of this question depends in which room she went to i.e. if she is in a room where managers conduct interview than she is for interview and if she is in a room of big boss then she is definitely joining the project.
In the mean time our colleague came back and said “Guys, get back to work, she is 2.0 and came for a interview and yeah….she is Lady in the Gogs”…..oh man….c’mon…. this was the reaction of our team.I know this is a stupid thing but it is within all of us.
There is also one thing in IT offices, if a girl is really good looking than you will find this in first glance but if a girl is not really good looking and when you saw her then following things happen:-
Day 1: Ahaan, New girl.
Day 2: She is not good looking.
Day 3: She is Okay but not that much good looking.
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Day 7:  She is Okay but not that much good looking.
Day 8: Okay, she is not good looking but she is a nice girl.
Day 9: C’mon man, I talked to her, she is a nice girl.
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Day 20: Although she is not beautiful but she is really nice, intelligent and fun to be with girl.You will definitely get impressed if you talk to her.
Day 21: You will forget what you said in first seven days for this girl.
Day 25: You are trying to get some moments with her may be a coffee in pantry or just some project related talks.
Day 30: You will slightly fall for her but not completely (still at safe place).
Bottom line: You think a particular girl is not very beautiful but if you start seeing/interacting her every day then your views about that girl will change.
I believe this is a story of every IT house when a girl or Lady in the Gogs or may be without Gogs walks down the floor.