My Little Stories

If I ask you, “have you ever worked on a project with unrealistic deadlines?”, some of you may reply “dude, that’s our default mode of working” 😉 Yes, we have all been there at some point of time in our careers. If we are in this situation once in a while, that may be acceptable. But if we are in this mode of working on a regular basis, then it is very difficult to cope with it.

It’s already 8.50am. I got stuck in the traffic, and I doubt I would be on time for the meeting by 9.30am. Somehow, I managed to reach the office by 9.35am, and it looks like the meeting is not yet started. Oh, I didn’t tell you why I am so excited for this meeting, right. It’s actually a workshop, and it’s going to be conducted by Mr Vinod. THE AWESOME VINOD.

Usually, on Sundays we get breakfast and dinner from outside instead of preparing at home. We know a nice place from where we usually get the breakfast, but yesterday we wanted to try some new place. After searching around for 30 minutes we finally found a new tiffin center. I went to the shop and asked the person sitting at cash counter what I want, and she repeated my order loudly to the people preparing the food.

THIS IS JUST FOR FUN, Not meant to be taken seriously He is the one who ran “flyway:clean” on production database ఈ అంకుల్ యే “flyway:clean” రన్ చేసింది ప్రొడక్షన్ లో Next we have some Team Bonding Activities When you did all the work, but manager is presenting it as “Team Work” When you are long enough in the software development, and you get a Production Issue pager alert When you accidentally stepped into SCRUM training room Retrospectives occasionally turn into eventful When you spent so much time impressing your boss for next salary hike and your boss left the company just before appraisal time…your colleagues are like: నవ్వు ఆపుకుంటున్నావ్ కదా!

I have been waiting for the movie “Ranga Maarthaanda” ever since it was announced because I am very interested in films, film making process, how the actors lives are, etc. Yesterday the “Ranga Maarthaanda” movie got released, and it is about the life of a very talented and popular stage actor. I have watched the film and since then so many thoughts are going through my mind continuously. Somehow I feel I am doing the same mistakes as the lead character in the movie did, who ended up having a miserable life at the end of his life.

THIS IS JUST FOR FUN, Not meant to be taken seriously Me to new JavaScript frameworks :-) Finally, I am about to start working, someone calling for another meeting When HR giving speech on how friendly our company work-culture is, long-term employees be like When the over-enthusiastic junior developer is saying “We should use pure functional programming with Event Sourcing” When you hear: I thought ‘git commit’ is enough, we need to do ‘git push’ also?

I want to be successful in my career. Who doesn’t? Everyone wants to be successful. But sometimes we don’t know how to deal with a problem, then we seek advice from others like our elders or books etc. A lot of people, especially youngsters, try to read books which can be broadly categorized into Personality Development or Self Help books to become a better person. That’s a wonderful thing because life is too short to make all the mistakes by yourself and learn from them.

In India, there is a news channel called TVx. Whenever they don’t have any other interesting news to grab people attention, they start telecasting their all-time favorite programs like Is the world is going to end in 2048? or Is Mayan’s prediction about world ending is right? or Is IT employees are suffering from psychological problems? etc. In the same way, some websites keep writing articles like Code produced by Indians is bad quality or The Indian programmer myth etc for every 6 months.

Having some fun is absolutely necessary in these COVID-19 times to relax a bit :-) In the final round of interview when the interviewer told you that you will be working on building a microservices based platform and you can help in setting up infrastructure using Kubernetes too, if you are interested… After joining when they put you in a 15-year-old project and start assigning low priority bugs opened in 2008… While onboarding the HR folks singing how a cool a typical day in their organization is and that engineering manager showing you how agile their work culture is… When you show your quick prototype and business folks liked it and asked you to make sure it works fine on Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IE11 and be ready to give a demo by Friday and went on to dance floor… Those senior developers who neither gets excited about new technologies nor worry to work on JSF 1.

A year ago I was in Germany (Berlin) and it was a beautiful Saturday evening. I was alone and feeling bored. Then I suddenly remembered about a book my friend recommended to me, specifically one particular story. I picked up the book and start reading the story my friend suggested. After reading the story I had no words, no thoughts…nothing. I was just sitting there without any thoughts or emotions for few minutes.