Friday, March 18, 2011

10 things that happen when the managers from US visit the Indian teams

1. More than half your day goes in meetings
2. In all the meetings, the US folks who are by birth/brought up Indians puts a lot of US accent while they try to explain all the statistics and timelines that they have for the next 5 years in those useless power point presentations.
3. You get to hear all those list of verbs/adjectives related to team work/hardwork a million times a day.
4. For once in a lifetime, you will get to hear thanks, thank-you, without-you-it-wouldn't-have-been-possible that you will be overwhelmed with your own performance
5. You will be given all the courage and strength to talk out on the thing that you've been thinking that gates the productivity of the team or yourself after the presentations in the so-called "Questions?" slide.
6. You will be beaten up almost to death if you had the guts to talk of the issue that you have actually been thinking through your work!
7. A few senior members in the team, only in terms of the number of years completed in the company/team, will get "rewards" that they were waiting for, all these years.
8. You see your managers/a few over enthusiastic peers' energy levels multiplied by God-knows-how-many-calories!
9. And then if there is a lady in the visiting team, the female counterparts get added attention. All of a sudden the woman in you is appreciated for just that reason, that you are a woman.
10. And beyond all this, if you're a service provider aka consultant aka contractor the dog's treatment still continues!!

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