Things on My Mind...

.....as it gets ready to explode- that is how I wanted the topic to be before I realized that it would be too long a title so whatever. The past two weeks have been overwhelming. Thanks to being a woman, it is that time of the month and my hormones are totally out of control. I really wanted to write about this thing but then given how stereotypically this statement is used anyway, I'd just ask the user to conveniently forget the last line.

My emphasis though would make you remember it even more. Now, you may try to forget it but you'll realize that I have sown that seed and it will stay there forever. Anyway, there have been multiple things on my mind, a lot of which, I am going to share here.

The first, and it wasn't supposed to be this but darn this keypad and wix' super slow UI is killing me right now because thought-wise and even the typing wise, I am way ahead of what the screen is showing and believe me, those red Grammarly lines are sucking the life out of me right now!

So, being irritated as I am right now, and immensely at that, I have decided to shift to notes and type it out here. I’ll just copy-paste and format it later because oh good lord! It feels so good right now and damn, am I not one to find solutions to everything!

Haha! Anyway

So, yes Micromanagement- I have this supremely Mahaan, Bhagwaan ka banda in my professional life who doesn’t like micromanaging at all and makes sure that I am called at least 6 times a day to ensure that I know it. Ye hua, vo hua, but you see, I don’t micromanage! I don’t have that kind of time and blah blah! The hate for micromanagement, I can sense it in the second call of the day that usually happens before 11 am!

Next comes, saving the ass of the teammates- this is something I have been discussing with the team leads a lot lately. Being a good boss doesn’t mean being mummy papa. Being a leader doesn’t mean being mummy papa either. It means getting the work done while ensuring that the other person feels respected and valued. If being a good leader means promoting insincerity or inefficiency, then sorry, you are not a leader, you are stupid and you’ll soon lose your job- VERY SOON!

Then comes, the over-availability. Now, this is something that I keep debating with myself all the time. So, this is my firm, which means that I should solve all the problems. However, this is my firm and I handle a lot of work, which also means that I am always running short on time. So, when people ask basic questions- how do I respond? I respond with patience but then humans are humans and they are creatures of habit which means that if you answer one basic question once, they’ll come up with an even BASIC-ER question the next time. So what do I do? I ask questions.

So, if someone comes to me asking- what to do about it, I ask- what do you think we should do about it and then we discuss it for another 5 minutes and the person knows how to solve it. Yes, it would have been easier for me to answer right away and save time then but as someone who loves LIC, I believe in the long run!

Telling people they don’t deserve what they are asking for without being disrespectful comes next. So, we keep hiring a lot and this means that I have to interview a lot of people too which in turn means I have to talk to a lot of people with all sorts of expectations. There are people who don’t know half the thing but would expect salaries like crazy- NO THANKS TO THE STARTUPS who have made people overvalue themselves.

Anyway, in such cases, I make sure I ask enough questions to let the person know that they don’t know things and hence their expectation is unrealistic. And I usually end with this- you may get this salary somewhere else but at least at CG, we don’t pay that much for your expertise. It is borderline mean but also practical and okay fine, it is more mean than practical but am I am NO Influenza to be politically correct?

I think I am pretty much done for the day- rant-wise I meant!

So, yeah laters then!!