Best Performer

I know I am among the important persons in our RR (a subset of Telecom) team. But little did I expect to get the Best Performer tag during the annual employee evaluation at FSS. Roughly 3-4% get the best performer rating, around 80% get vital performer tag. This process of evaluating employees is called 'Permasys' at FSS. The permasys was supposed to be completed on 27th May and we get our incremented salary along with May's salary on June 1st. My permasys was not over till 29th. Balaji had had his permasys on 23/24 May and he had got a vital performer rating. On 29th, my manager, affectionately called (or forced to call him as) MAK called me for a meeting. He started lecturing -- you should do this-- that -- show extra interest -- be proactive -- blah blah -- I listened. I had to listen. I thought I would be given only a vital performer rating after hearing his harangue. When I came back to my seat and saw the Permasys booklet mailed to me by MAK, a bit surprised to see the Best Performer rating. hooh hooh. Five minutes later, another mail. Congrats Selva -- your incentive (11k+) has been credited to your bank account!!!Happy happy. Waiting for the increment (how much?) ???

A day of high stress

Everyone spends the week-end at home or roaming around especially when your mother has come to see you from over 1000kms. This saturday was an exception to this rule. My manager asked, in fact requested, me to come on saturday and get help from a person of another team. I came at 12 noon, hoping I would get back home around 3-4. Things went awry and we could not finish what we intended and worse we were not sure what was wrong - you always get this feeling while working with hardware, especially with a TI 6416 processor, JTAG card and an ethernet card. Bloody irritating. I have run away from these hardware things right from my college days. As fate (or luck) would have it, I have to integrate the Telecom (GSM RR protocol) code with platform - c6416. Now a new week has begun - hope this one has a nice end.