Feeling bad for trusting Google Photos

Eventually Google had announced that storage for photos will be counted against the defined limit and users need to pay if their photos exceed the limit. So, I had started to look out for alternative online storage choice available for storing photos and most important criteria I have set while choosing online storage option was the affordability. Google photos cloud storage pricing was little bit higher than the competitors like Microsoft’s OneDrive and moving out from Google photos was added pain in the ass. Even though, Google has enabled seamless moving to other competitor online cloud storage option easier, the ease of backup and familiarity in using Google photos for such long-time was a major hurdle while looking out. In addition, trusting Google photos unlimited storage option for lifetime, I have installed Google photos app in all my relatives and family members' phone. It did not stop there, I have convinced them to upload all their old mobile photo into Google photos and ensured they follow this practice, even if they switch their mobile phones every year. Now, if I am moving out of Google photos, then I need to lookout for option that offers family sharing and larger storage space at an affordable pricing. Checkout my decision on online cloud storage for photos backup in blog posts published in “G R Team sites” 

Necessity was lost in getting new mobile phones

In recent times, mobile phones have become one of the most important gadgets and can be found with almost every citizen in this world. The basic functionality of the mobile phone is to connect people wherever they are and to ease communication between people. Let us get to the point, most mobile phones launched recently have focused primarily on cameras and processor. However, earlier the iterations in camera were noticeable and the upgrade made sense. Recently, the cameras upgrade made by companies were very minimal and the changes were hard to detect. The prices of the mobile phones have also gone up drastically and the value of mobile phone upgrade makes very little sense. People were forced to select mobile phones based on the compulsion to show off their status and financial ability to get upgraded mobile phones. With the COVID pandemic hitting everyone hard, the time has come to compare the basic functionalities of mobile phone and the cost associated with it. For more information and insights on specific topics, please feel free to check out the posts from "G R Team Sites"

Horrible manager with iterative work every-day

After working fiercely for the past 10 days (about 1 and a half weeks) with my manager and with one of the most irritating onsite teams, I wanted to take a short break from work for a few days. However, with the Covid-19 pandemic situation across the globe and severe lockdown restrictions, I had no other choice but to connect back to work the next day post weekend work. Therefore, I was hoping that no new work was assigned by my manager and after a prolonged time, I can spend some quality time with my family. Even though I did not get any new work from the onsite team, my manager was bothering me once in a few minutes to check on my status and to gather a few insights from other account owners. Out of frustration, I used to log off from my office laptop and continue to work on my laptop, as my manager would ping me often for the status update. After completion of work, I used to send the updates to my manager at once and after a few minutes, my manager will call me again to further enhance the information with recent updates. To know how I tackled my manager, please feel free to check out the blog posts in "G R Team Sites"

Unnecessary work from Onsite team

So, for past one week I was completely putting in my hard work to complete all the task list shared by those irritating onsite teams and my stupid manager. Out of curiosity, I wanted to check about the submission date for the assigned work and was pushing my manager each day to validate it with the onsite team. Finally, before the weekend during the call, my manager requested onsite team to share expected submission date and further actions on the opportunity shared. I was shell shocked by the response from the onsite team, as they responded back stating that they have shared initial questionnaire to the client point of contact and was awaiting their response. In mean time, the onsite team felt that client might need few information and was requesting offshore team to work on unnecessary documents, before even client shared their requirements. I was getting even more furious and was requesting my manager to drop note stating that myself would be supporting this request post clarifications from client. However, my manager backstabbed with irrelevant mails and information and to know more, please feel free to check out the blog posts in “G R Team Sites”

Exciting travel to surprise my family

The excitement of going home for a long vacation was overshadowing the fact that my manager has approved work from home for continuous two days before my long vacation and I didn’t have any work to be completed for the rest of the week. I kept my travel back to native as a surprise to my family and was pretending that I was on my usual routine in my workplace. However, even being rude with my mom and wife that I was busy with my work, my family was checking about my safety precautions to the Covid-19 pandemic and they were worried about my well-being to the extent that they want me to back to my native as early as possible. Since I had conveyed that I would be busy with my work due to the upcoming long vacation, my family had no other option but to anxiously wait till my arrival, and they were also unaware of the work from trend happening across the technology industry. So, I was traveling to my hometown in my car and was pretending to be in my workplace and my family was unaware of my surprise, and finally, when I reached home my family was shell shocked and couldn’t believe that I have reached home sooner than they expected. To know more of this excitement, please feel free to check out the blog posts in “G R Team Sites”

FastTrack work with delivery lead to complete ASAP

I have started work on the service request as soon as I logged into office, as usual, I have a habit of checking Twitter and YouTube for the latest news and trends happening in the market. After my browsing new topics, I wanted to close this service request as early as possible, because of my planned vacation coming up in the next few days and my instinct indicating that I will have to support this service request during my vacation. The delivery lead who was supposed to be providing guidance and support to close this service request was also working hard with me to close this work as early as possible. The main reason for this delivery person to work hard with me was to close this request before my vacation days, as he wants to take vacation the week after it and we both were irritated by the on-site team’s attitude and iterative changes. With extended hours, the delivery lead and I were able to complete the entire service request in almost two days and have sent the revised deck to the on-site team for their review. To know more about the on-site team’s feedback, please feel free to check out “G R Team Sites”

Plan ruined with new service request

For the past week, I did not have much work to do in my previous service request and all I had to do was kill time with the same deck with minor updates every day. I thought it would continue for one more week as the scheduled time for closure of the service request was by next week, but the exact opposite thing happened through my manager. He looped me into one more new service request with a lot of work to be completed in the next few days and for the same request, I was supposed to assist existing teammates with my expertise from previous such requests. Only while being looped into calls, I understood that there was a lot of work to be completed and I had to utilize my entire bandwidth for the next few days. All my hope of spending leisure time with the previous service request with no work plan went in vain and for the next few days, I must spend a lot of time on the newly assigned service request. To start, I had to go through a lot of existing repositories and previously completed service requests to understand how client requirements addressed. Furthermore, I also had to read the complete documents list shared by the client in a few hours to start working on the service request and put in my expertise to complete it. To know further about the opportunity, please feel free to check out “G R Team Sites”

Started working on the service request

I was roped in to support the service request at the very last minute by my manager and he doesn’t have any clue about the amount of work nor its bandwidth. I had to figure out my bandwidth and make some room to support this service request based on priority basis. Since, the service request was assigned on Friday and has 2 more weeks left to complete the assigned work. So, I had put aside this last minute service request for the day and started to create baseline slides for the other tasks assigned to me. Towards close of the day, I got a call from the delivery person, who was supposed to support and work alongside me to close out this service request, he was requesting me whether I can send out version before EOD for review. I was astonished by this remark, as it was about to be close of the day and we have time till next week to frame outline for the request. I conveyed politely that, it is too early to come up with a version and it would be redundant work for me to work on too many iterations. He was hesitant to acknowledge the fact and I declined to send a version by tonight. Outcome of this conversation got me into hell and to know more, continue reading posts at “G R Team Sites”

Manager again assigned me irritating opportunity

I was somehow confused about this opportunity because, the manager was not that good with me and he would assign only complicated opportunities to me. Trusting this manager for one time, I told other manager that I would be able to support the opportunity, even though it is from most irritating account in my team. My team’s other manager looped me into this opportunity from one of the most irritating account and notified to my manager that I will be working on this opportunity. After completing that irritating opportunity, I was hoping that this opportunity would be much easier than the earlier one and got connected with the delivery person to acquire the background about the opportunity details and the amount of work required from my end. The initial call was much smoother than I expected, I got some information from the delivery person and opportunity seemed straight forward and I had a standard set of slides to be incorporated for the deck to be shared. Continue reading at “G R Team Sites”

Gradual work load from the irritating opportunity

As you may know from earlier post that I was looped into support the most irritating opportunity my team has ever worked and to my surprise that the most irritating delivery POC has left the company, I was eagerly waiting to see how the opportunity would turn it out. So, the first day started off with the standard slides to be pulled off from the earlier decks and to have a storyline in place for the call and also to get the necessary info inputs from the onsite team. I have put the story line in place and also I have scheduled a call with the on-site team to know more about the opportunity details and have also looped in all the top leaders from my team as well as the other teams to get necessary inputs and hoping it would be a smooth one. However, it turned out to be the most complicated opportunity and the deadline was too short to complete within a week, the leaders were pointing out to me in the call to come up with the updated deck by next week and schedule the recurring calls every day to discuss on the update. To know more about what happened, please check out the blog post in GR team sites.

Session went well and fell ill on the same day

I had to take session on Monday, a day before my long vacation and I was completely pissed about the entire process, as it had no impact to anyone, and the session was planned entirely to show that one of my team’s manager was proactively monitoring the team. The session went well, and I was stammering here and there, however was able to manage little bit and was explaining the concepts in most confident manner. While this manager was communicating to me, he told me that starting from me, everyone in the team would take session on every week to detail about their unique approach adopted and any other relevant topics to work. However, at end of session he was conveying to the team that this session was completely optional and can be opted by individual who wanted present some unique learnings to the team. I was pissed off even more and while taking the session I was feeling little bit uncomfortable and was down for few hours with headache & fever. To know more about my experiences, continue reading at “G R Team Sites”

Short week with no work at office

After back from long vacation at office, for first two days literally I had no work and was just killing time by watching random videos and browsing internet and on third day while starting to office, I was particularly sure that I would be assigned with one new opportunity and with so much anticipation I enter the office and to my surprise my manager was on leave that day. How excited would an employee get when he or she knows her manager was off and they no work in hand for the entire day. I was too much excited and again started watch videos and now comes the most surprising element at work. One of my colleagues was pinging me in office communicator that whether we can play “Bingo” game, as she was feeling too bored and frustrated. I immediately replied yes and the entire team at my location was playing bingo game in the communicator. How better can the workplace be, but it’s not all and there was many stunning news in the team. Continue reading at “G R Team Sites”

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Customer care interaction for credit card refund

I have been keeping tab on each and every transaction on my credit card for past one year and have been paying the transactions amount before the due date. However, in one of the statement period I had to pay huge transaction amount and I planned to pay in two installment before the due date and paid the same as per the plan. So, the next statement for my credit card has ran and I was shell shocked to see that debit interest have been charged in the card and I was so furious that I wanted to close my credit card at the earliest. Since I was in office I didn’t have enough space to call customer care and raise escalation against it. So, I waited patiently for the weekend and called the customer care to enquire about the transaction’s charges levied and either to refund the amount or cancel the card immediately. The customer care representative initially interacted with different tone and once I conveyed that either I am closing off the card because of this unwanted transaction charges levied, now the tone changed altogether and I was confirmed that the amount would be refunded and in addition to it I also wanted to check about the annual fee and to my surprise I was conveyed that it would also be refunded. Continue reading about another credit card at “G R Team sites” listed right side section.

New Opportunity with new team

For more than 2 months I have been working only with that same difficult SME, who had too much of ego issues and was too rude in communications with other teams. Now finally that certain section of opportunities failed to come to my team and after being free for 2 to 3 days, my manager wants to assign new work to me. There was an opportunity from one of the complicated accounts and I was looped in to support the opportunity with the new team, with whom I had never worked earlier. At first glance, I thought the opportunity was cake walk for me, as I had some standard content and information with me and I could share the same with the delivery POC, who can customize or provide inputs to me for customization. Initial days went smooth as the standard information were enough for the discussion and I was hoping to get some support from the delivery expert in upcoming days for the completion. However, to my surprise the exact opposite thing happened in this opportunity and I was completely pissed off. Continue reading at “G R Team sites” listed in the right section of this site.

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