Sometimes luck doesn't come your way

[zarathustra]

4 minutes ago, Sputnik said:

Next job ki you can appreciate better 

compare cheskoni super duper anukuntav

Yeah but my confidence got a beating bro. 

My mind keeps thinking back to what could I have done better/differently. 

Need to take a break from everything I guess. 

[undarware_troller]

2 hours ago, zarathustra said:

Anyway thanks for all the posts brothers, makes me a feel a little better. 

I will take a break from DB, and figure out what I have to do next. 

All the best bro. Maybe Kumar uncle gaadi shapam yemo(Just Kidding). 

[Sputnik]

29 minutes ago, zarathustra said:

Yeah but my confidence got a beating bro. 

My mind keeps thinking back to what could I have done better/differently. 

Need to take a break from everything I guess. 

That’s ok bro

Not every organization or management is organized. Some are chaotic and vatini manam marchalemu

the best thing we could do is to kick ourselves out of their mess.

[zarathustra]

15 minutes ago, undarware_troller said:

All the best bro. Maybe Kumar uncle gaadi shapam yemo(Just Kidding). 

Yeah vadini lite le inka, kelakatam waste. I will leave him to his misery

[undarware_troller]

9 minutes ago, zarathustra said:

Yeah vadini lite le inka, kelakatam waste. I will leave him to his misery

Bro mana Obulesu photo choosi get motivated . Luck adhe thannuku vasthadhi. Again just for fun.

[zarathustra]

2 minutes ago, undarware_troller said:

Bro mana Obulesu photo choosi get motivated . Luck adhe thannuku vasthadhi. Again just for fun.

Thanks bro, my favorite hero of all time. thokkesaranna ninnu

[zarathustra]

3 minutes ago, undarware_troller said:

Bro mana Obulesu photo choosi get motivated . Luck adhe thannuku vasthadhi. Again just for fun.

Wolverine telugu remake ki sign chesara obulesannani

[undarware_troller]

Just now, zarathustra said:

Wolverine telugu remake ki sign chesara obulesannani

Yea X-men ni Nandamuri family ki adapt chesi remaking

[kathiramdasu]

3 hours ago, zarathustra said:

Actual situation is a bit different, I didn't elaborate on it. Here it goes: 

1) Ever since I joined the company, I had asked for a KT even a basic knowledge transfer of how their architecture is designed, how their build and release process works and none of it was given. I report to only one director, and I have no colleagues to approach. 

In the first week, I was assigned an issue where I had to migrate applications on a server to another, the time line of this was April which was more than a month away. But the task itself was simple enough, although again I had no documentation/no explanation of how they have done it before etc. This was accomplished in a week, which seemed to surprise the Infrastructure admin but then again it wasn't a task that needs to take a month. 

I ran into an issue which was identified to be an application specific issue and had approached one of the developers, working with him I was able to mitigate it and the director is aware of it. He had himself told me then that the time lines are very flexible and they usually go over the deadlines so not to worry about the deadlines specified for a task too much. 

2) They had an issue with a portal where certain reports they try to run are generated. They kept getting a 404 error, now the location the webserver tries to look for those reports is different from what's mentioned in the application where they are getting generated to. I noticed this in the logs and asked the director if I could approach the developer who built this application, as I wanted to know where this piece of logic is specified in the code. He again told me that that developer doesn't work there anymore and it's upto me to figure it out. I ended up writing a python script which copies the reports over to the correct location and the issue was fixed. What I asked him was if this reports location was changed let's say due to a change in the application code etc and he had no clue, he said it never worked in the past. 

So I basically fixed something they never had access to in the past, the report in this case. 

3) I had a lot of issues with their Identity access management system(Okta in this case) getting my credentials validated to access their bitbucket spaces. It took 3 weeks of going back and forth with Atlassian to finally get this issue fixed, again nothing I could do anything about as I don't control that part of the process. I was finally able to get this issue addressed last Wednesday, i.e., 4 business days ago. 

4) I was able to finally look at their Build and release process last Thursday and generate a build. They use a very manual and antiquated process of doing it, the ask for me is to try to automate it as much as possible. I conducted only one trial run of their build process, and this was directly on the Prod server. My director was away Friday and Monday yesterday and I had documented some issues I wanted to get some clarify from him on, what I wanted access to was a development environment so I could try to run some gradle scripts and automate the process piece by piece. I was not given access to any such dev environment or told about any such environment which is pretty basic thing to expect. 

Today he asked me if I was able to figure out how to automate the process in 2 days, last Friday and yesterday when he wasn't here. I told him that I would first need access to a DEV environment and was going to ask him about it, because I have no other colleagues to ask these questions. Not sure if he is expecting someone to complete all these in a week, which is impossible. We even had a meeting every Tuesday where we go over this process in detail with the Development director(again there's no DEV Architect available) and I had documented some of these issues to ask in the meeting. 

However, the director seemed to have made up his mind to move on, and conveyed the same to me. I am not going to beg him to keep me. I asked him if he could give me some more time to prove myself with whatever expectations he had, and to set some expectations to begin with instead of being very vague. That never happened, so I had no choice but to put in my 2 weeks and move on. 

My boss is also a director, he is not technical, but when ever I come across a situation like yours I directly approach the team responsible to get answers, if they don't respond I usually tell my director and we escalate.  I agree with you , if your director is also not supportive , then you should quit.

[RedThupaki]

 dont mind and dont take things personally...

 

imagine this way of thinking....

based on your quotes, "I" is more evident....did you gave an impression to your boss that everything is handled by you ?

or you were expecting appreciation for every achievement of yours like solving issues without support etc?

i guess your boss had taking things personally based on your behavior (which happens unknowingly) 

just  suggesting you a situation which cant be ruled out and maybe useful in your next job.

Some bosses only want people to work and not to bother by bringing up issues. its not your problem its their way of work...they just need solutions that's it , they knew they are not capable...that's why you are hired....anyways problem solved in the end...both of you made up your minds...

coming to circumstance, loosing the job and what next ?...imagine loosing someone badly...meeting with an accidents....affecting with big disease...ending up in a legal issues...etc etc all traumatic events...and you know many people are in that situation already....but in your case its only a job, just "MOVE ON"...you will get it eventually nd very soon....Good luck

 

 

[zarathustra]

27 minutes ago, kathiramdasu said:

My boss is also a director, he is not technical, but when ever I come across a situation like yours I directly approach the team responsible to get answers, if they don't respond I usually tell my director and we escalate.  I agree with you , if your director is also not supportive , then you should quit.

In this case bro, I copied my director in every email and also tagged him on Jira so he should be aware as well that I haven't received any response. Even otherwise, I was under the impression that the sys admin didn't respond as he perhaps didn't have the document himself and might need some time to get it ready which is a reasonable assumption based on the pace at which work moves in this company. 

I can't be blamed for that at all, and he's well aware of it. He even accepted it, but irrespective of that he seems to have made up his mind. 

[zarathustra]

25 minutes ago, RedThupaki said:

 dont mind and dont take things personally...

 

imagine this way of thinking....

based on your quotes, "I" is more evident....did you gave an impression to your boss that everything is handled by you ? Maybe but I haven't done that on purpose, I do keep him updated on everything I am doing. 

or you were expecting appreciation for every achievement of yours like solving issues without support etc? No but I did point out that it's normal for anyone to expect some kind of documentation, or a know how of the process, atleast a basic walkthrough none of which I received. 

i guess your boss had taking things personally based on your behavior (which happens unknowingly) I think you are totally right on this point, I don't think it's anything to do with my work. He perhaps wanted someone that can take everything on his plate and work on that as well, as he once mentioned that his plate was full and he doesn't want to take on more when I approached him with a question. It's just a basic question and I have no team I can turn to so had to go to him. 

just  suggesting you a situation which cant be ruled out and maybe useful in your next job.

Some bosses only want people to work and not to bother by bringing up issues. its not your problem its their way of work...they just need solutions that's it , they knew they are not capable...that's why you are hired....anyways problem solved in the end...both of you made up your minds... I do think he's that kind of person, he was expecting someone to come in and figure out everything and re-invent the wheel however I am not a Technical Architect and even someone like that wouldn't be able to turn around things in a place like this in a month I feel. 

coming to circumstance, loosing the job and what next ?...imagine loosing someone badly...meeting with an accidents....affecting with big disease...ending up in a legal issues...etc etc all traumatic events...and you know many people are in that situation already....but in your case its only a job, just "MOVE ON"...you will get it eventually nd very soon....Good luck

Thank you, I appreciate your understanding. 

 

 

@RedThupaki

[macha]

Sorry to hear ... good luck with your future opportunity... do you mind sharing company name it will be helpful so other will not join company 

[zarathustra]

11 minutes ago, macha said:

Sorry to hear ... good luck with your future opportunity... do you mind sharing company name it will be helpful so other will not join company 

PM chestha

[DesiPokiri]

6 hours ago, zarathustra said:

Had to quit a job I joined on March 1st today. 

No knowledge transfer, no mention of what expectations they had. Totally manual process where no one responds to your email even if you were to follow up with them multiple times, and no colleagues except the director who I report to. Even he gets frustrated if I ask him any questions for clarification, says I expect you to figure it out. 

Ee opportunity kosam left other better chances, just because they offered me this job first. 

Sometimes luck turns out that way, hope I will use this as lesson learned and move on. 

Depressing reality but time to swallow the bitter pill

Baa don’t feel bad, I was exactly on the same boat 2 years back where one very small client took me and made me work day and night and fired me within 1.5 months, I literally worked 18 hrs a day and still they fired me and I felt bad.. after that I rejected many offers when I google them and find out that they are not big clients..

life is a learning baa, there are good days and bad days. Just enjoy the process and never work even for a single hour in a day by killing the time for yourself. Fck this jobs and clients, end of the day be happy and that’s the only thing which matters coz you come alone and go alone.. 

impressing your boss or others is BS coz they won’t come to your grave.