This Side of Paradise

For the second time, life has taught me that it is wrong to expect something that was never meant to happen to you. The company day was on the 2nd of July and from what I had heard and seen we were easily the team walking up to the dias and taking the best project award. The evening had other plans for us. Obviously, we didn’t have our date with destiny that day, but what was more appaling was the choice of the projects which got the awards.

The month of June is very eagerly looked forward to by the management here. The reason - two scores arrive that define you as a leader. The first is the Gallup survey which shows how effective you are as a manager in terms of taking care of the team and the second is the client survey which is filled in by the end client. Bottom line, your performance as a leader is evaluated from all directions.

…at the office; so, what’s new about that?? Well…this time, I really wanted to go home and get some sleep cos tomorrow was going to be a very long and a hectic day. At 1 AM, when I was getting ready to leave, I find I’ve missed my bike keys somwhere; effectively I’m stranded at the office!! Pretty pathetic end to a relatively nice day I should say…!!…or so I thought!! the office cabs saved me at last ;-) got a cab in about half an hour’s time. Should be catching the zzz’s in about an hour’s time.

…is generally considered to be the most demanding project across our company. The general word is that working for a year in the GS project is equivalent to working for two years on any other project. To average joe, it seems like a project best avoided…you get paid the same for two times the work, twice the pressure..phew…!! Why would someone want to stay on there…!! Henry Paulson is the chairman of Goldman Sachs and there was a mail from him yesterday which started like this…