Am I Expensive?

The Sinusoidal wave for the demand of the IT professionals is ever scary. The Ups & Downs of the Information Technology industry gets the heart & soul agitated of every person.

Seated in a corner of the cubicle and working on applications which run world’s business and seeing the outside world only through the 15'' screen, Wiki is all I speak about.

Being a cheap labor, the ability to work for longer duration, excellent English speaking capabilities and the ability to work more with minimal complaints is what makes people like me an attractive option for the IT companies.

Let me move down to a narrower scale of measurement of my work.

My Salary is Rs.20K per month. Mind you guys this is the Gross(CTC).

I work a minimum of 20 days a month and work on an average 10 hours a day. So I work a minimum of 200 hours a month.

Applying simple math, So what does this come up to?

Rs.100 per hour equivalent to $2.5 an hour.

Though I am being paid this less, there is always a fear of loosing the job during recession.

A job cut is done to cut costs, but always the performance is given as a reason.


Having an experience of greater than 1.5 years, getting $2.5 an hour, being in the fear of loosing my job during US recession, I always end up asking myself, "Am I Expensive?"


Assumptions:
1 USD = 40 INR (US $1 = Indian Rs.40)

Facts:
The electricity consumption, water consumption etc are not considered as an employee across countries would use these.

Lull before the Appraisal

Happy were everyone, life was joy,
Happy were everyone, life went by,
Happy was I, life had smiled.


Have you heard of "Lull before the Storm" now listen to the "Lull before the Appraisal".

This is what life was few days back. Life is a lot wrecked now. How I hope I could have time-traveled to the past, when there was a broad smile in everybody’s face. Projects were going by the will of every Associate, today it moves by the force of the Managers.

Self motivation exists only there where there is equality in the treatment of all associates. Self motivation to achieve, Self motivation to move up, self motivation to succeed is all that is necessary to keep a project moving.

But where has the equality gone? Where has the zeal in everyone disappeared?

Both of these vanished in a single storm. The storm was named "The Appraisal".

Monday Ache :AKA: MondAche

Born is the person who smiles,
Dead is the King who knows not his peasants,
Success is to the Software Engineer is all about “MondAche”.


No allergy is the cause for this, no seasonal change is needed, no prior health difficulties they are. They are HOT with the present generation. Yes and off course they are the most happening thing around. Introducing to each one of you, the latest kind of headache, “Monday Ache”. In Short “MondAche”

To be eligible for the cult(Software Engineer) you need to know inside out of “MondAche”. The formal dress of yours may speak, but your knowledge of the health misery shouts. This is the criterion for being a Software Engineer.

After all, being in the software industry is like being in a recursive(Vicious) for-loop.

[Trivia: ‘Monday’ in one of the South-Indian Languages also means head. So what more better name can you ask for?]


“Know the miseries & be in them. Thou shalt succeed"