It has been crazy and busy at office for the past 10 days. Our project’s onsite manager (one who decides who goes to onsite), wanted a tool to help him track the time entered by all the resources. It should read data from the time tracking tool and present in MS-Excel format. One of the team member who wanted to go onsite, convinced the manager that he could do it. Even after three months, he didn’t complete it, but got his dream realized. When I was asked if I could do that task, I took it up without knowing any of this background (as I was new into the team). I discussed with this guy and we came to a conclusion that it would take around 7 days to finish it (I still didn’t know that he took 3 months). Call it betrayal, but this guy informed the manager that it would take only 2 days to complete. I have read jokes about managers being morons, but this is my first encounter with one. Instead of confronting the team member, the manager came back to me questioning my capability. I got pissed off. I wanted to reply in action. I finished it a day before.

A major release fell during the same time line and so I was busy, busy, busy. Once I met the target, I shot out a mail to the team member giving a piece of my mind. Talk about proof of being a moron – the onsite manager sent a mail to my immediate manager that I should apologize for the mail as it had affected the team member’s morale. He didn’t have an ounce of sense to grasp that this guy cheated him for three months and I finished it in a week along with overseeing a major release. I refused to apologize for the content of the mail, rather I said sorry for the tone of the mail. A great company to work for!