Thank you but I think you are under the impression that
I was bitter or something.
Actually this story I wrote
because some of those goes remembered me and I recognised one atleast.
I also have been threatened/attempt to bribe because of this story but they
do not wish to leave their e-mail address so hardly worth bothering about.
>From: Ripan Bansal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 18:02:29 +0530
>
>Please see my viewpoint inline
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: zahid rahman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 4:14 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject:
>
>
>Hi buddy,
>
>1. Thank you for your reply.
>
>2. I have noted the contents of it very carefully. I do not know
>if you are aware of this but in teh legal world there is something called
>given a false sense of security you admitted" Those who know about this
>know that it doesn't mean anything if you have CONCRETE evidence.
>
>3. My background is Real - time safety critical software
>and Business Applications. Having worked in safety critical
>software I have been taught to do things a little differently
>than every body else. I do mostly "proof of concepts" , skeleton
>,prototyping therefore I am not the one under commercial pressure but
>others
>find themselves. my skill set include 68K, ADA,
>C,C++ ,vb, cobol, esqlc , openroad , ingres , informix , oracle , vms, unix
>, nt. It is all commercial experience.
>
>
>4. I am fully aware of the politicals , hypocracy and discrimination that
>goes on in the software Industry and it has become a sorts of part of life.
>
>5. In case you do not my Background I will :-
>
>If you look in the archives you will see that I gave
>a link to some one about an example program.
>He then contacted me to tell me that he works for wipro.
>This was an interesting coincidence if it were a coincidence.
>at my previous employment,bytel ltd, the software was migrated by wipro
>from
>Ingres ,ABF on VMS to Forms 4.5 & Oracle database running on unix because
>the customer wanted it.
>
>The software was sent to wipro and then received back after a year later.
>I was working on a datawarehousing project in the mean time.
>When the software came back I was asked to integrate an enhancement on top
>of the software. Having done the boredom of coding I then proceeded to do a
>unit test. I found that there were all sort of problems. I then decided to
>do the thread test which I used to do on the old software when I made a
>change so that I haven't made any other impacts. I found to my horror that
>I
>couldn't do the test another words the software is completely unstable. I
>pointed this out to my manager that I cannot do the enhancement giving him
>the reasons for it and in the reasons the Senior Consultants where at fault
>also in that what were they doing in India.
>
>The manager some weeks later informed me that I wasn't going to be
>disciplined for not having escalated the problems. The company had been
>recently taken over by an American company (CSG ltd). What the manager was
>saying was that He wasn't going to blame the White Senior Consultants ,
>Wipro and the hundered of programmers and consultants but me. It became
>obvious the reason was because I am Pakistani.
>////////Ripan
>I think the reason why your boss decided to blame you was not because you
>are a Pakistani but because you are alone and he can't go against so many
>persons. He doesn't have the guts, so he decided to supress you. Even if in
>your place someone else was there he might have done the same thing. Its
>human nature and its not an issue of being Pakistani. Sometimes it does
>effect but that varies from person to person. I mean you can't generalize
>this and even port that concept of yours to me :-)
>
>
>///
>Any way I started looking for a job. The day I gave my resignation he and I
>used to get on well he told I am looking too ever since we had our first
>discussion.
>
>After serving four weeks of my notice I left. One week after I started my
>new Job They announced redunancied unsurprisingly because the working
>software was no longer working because there was no BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE
>or motivation to do things Software Engineering Way rather than the cut and
>Paste Hacker way.
>
>That company had more than four times the average turn over and now there
>where some legal battle going on since the last time I heard.
>I know a little about discrimination, Business Knowledge , Integrating
>Business tests.
>
>I will tell another story later.
>
>/////////Ripan
>Its my pleasure to share your feelings with me. If you consider me as
>friend
>then its great for me. I don't mind having a Pakistani friend. Infact i
>would love to because i don't discriminate persons based on caste or color.
>
>For how long you have been working in the IT field and staying at UK?
>
>Regards,
>Ripan
>
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