Jun 7, 2012

Life in mumbai: version 2.0

Hii ,

It has been seriously so long that I have posted on my blog. Today I have completed exactly 1 year and 3 months in mumbai. Life has changed a lot after coming here new place, new friends and new people. I came here with my friends (college friends) and I was dam sure that I will be staying with my old friends no matter what comes on my way. But today when I look back then I can see a lot of things has changed. TCS...... here in mumbai there are a lot of TCS offices and client sites where we TCSers work. Because of this reasons only I have got separated with my friends. As day passed my friends got separate TCS locations to work with and finally a day came in our life when we have to shift to nearby places to our office. Right now I work in Belapur SBI data center for SBI one of the esteemed client of TCS. TCS churns out a lot of domestic revenue from SBI only. Presently I live in belapur  with my project team mates. They all are from karnataka (Kitty, Ravi , Darshan and Nithin). They are really great people by heart. After shifting  to belapur from thane I hardly meet with my old room mates. Its not because I don't want, its due to unavailability of time. I am in production support and have a very rough schedule. I have to work in shifts that also includes night shifts. I hardly get week off on Saturday and Sunday which is normal week offs for my friends working in TCS offices.This is why people say that it is worse to work in production support project that too in a live project like SBI where the whole system breaths because of your working only. One mistake and the all branches of SBI in India is going to be affected. I was very much proud to know that we are indirectly driving 20 percent of India's economy. That is the criticality of our project. Initially when I joined this project everyone used to tell like that. 

But now I feel its a bullshit. Its because from day one I am getting to do single thing all the time. The work is so monotonous here that even a stone will come out of SBI screaming that "I can't handle it anymore". The SBI issue is like that if you came to know about any issue then you have to follow the predefined procedure to solve it. No innovation nothing. Now I feel like for many issues coming for SBI CBS production I can solve it even in my dream. That is not because I have a lot of confidence, its because I have became monkey who is acquainted with all the tricks and twirls which he used to do everyday. So this is the reality about SBI project. One more thing which is really pathetic about this project "People" / "Managers". The people whom u meet here I can challenge you won't find them any where else in the world. Enough of my frustration in mumbai. Sorry to bother you guys. So if you are being allocated to mumbai, never ever never ever come to SBI belapur project.