On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Bharat Shetty <bharat.she...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2. Culture and such. Depends on the environment in your company or
> work place. Sometimes you need support from others to finish tasks
> asap. Any laxness on others part (for eg: late reviews, late
> discussions etc) makes it only tougher for you etc.
Company Culture can be very misleading, I used to put in more than 70+
hours/ Week.
Spend Weekends at work, a place I admired a lot for its hackers.
Culture so misleading,
at one given point of time had taken a health club membership just a
few buildings away
from my work, just to take a shower and save time. There were way too
many rockstars Hackers
in the company and work environment encouraged one to be. I though I
need be one or I would perish. It more had a chained reaction.
Just about the first 3 years I could feel the burn out, series of
rejections by bosses and peers
in just about anything I did or proposed. No social life except for
the dinners at various open source conferences
around the world or the occasional FoU camp/ meet ups.
Even worse no friends outside work. It took me quite a while and hard
work to change these habits.
I remember seeing a poster at a former colleagues cubicle at Yahoo!
guess its from Futurama
"You're not paid to think. A mindless worker is a happy worker. Shut
Up and Do your Job".
I could see he was going through the same. Intra company work cultures
drastically differ from its American
Counterparts. Here are my observations on it.
0. When a company is making profits and is successful, no one within
gives a damn about its culture. Or the ratio of its
rockstars to employees feeling like second grade citizens. Its
only when they have have a bad year, quarter they would do some soul
searching.
1. Just following orders worked well for me. This one drastically cut
my work hours, it was like an epiphany.
2. Hanging out with people within your age group. I was in for a
reality check when I did this. Does change your social life.
regards
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