It is raining heavily in Mumbai and I am sitting idly at my workplace wondering about my life. I have finally joined a company of my choice finally (3 weeks ho gaye though). Still have no idea whether I took the right decision of not opting for high-profile, high paying jobs. Hopefully, everything will turn out well in the end (like most Hindi movies :P).
I found some strange things here:
1. For a company with a turn-over of around Rs. 1000 crore and over 200 employees, I found it strange for the Managing Director to call me up during the first week and ask "Kaise chal raha hai Purav ji". I had not known the names of all the products manufactured by then . (I still dont know all though :P)
2. The Managing Director has access to all the company emails of the important employees (Mine included. Can call myself important then :P) and once a week, (when I think he is bored to work), he goes through all the emails and gets hard copies of important mails during the week and sends the copies to the people to whom the email is addressed to. Strange.
3. He is completely obsessed over growth. Everytime I see him he gives me names of 4-5 chemicals and asks me to get the market information for them, which I find too tough to do. But feels nice to know that I will be involved in formulating the future strategy of the company.
4. I believe I have been given too much of a free hand at work - access to all internet sites (including facebook), a printer and lots of time to think over while collecting data. Strangely, no one minds here if I do a bit of facebooking and other tp like blog reading etc. In fact, I am advised to read blogs of people related to chemical fields as a part of RSS feed in Microsoft Outlook.
While I have been introduced to the people at the top like VP marketing, Director Finance, I have had almost no interaction with their colleagues and as such I have had no idea about what people, in general, feel about the company and bosses. I guess, insteaad of writing this blog, I need to speak to them now. :P
I found some strange things here:
1. For a company with a turn-over of around Rs. 1000 crore and over 200 employees, I found it strange for the Managing Director to call me up during the first week and ask "Kaise chal raha hai Purav ji". I had not known the names of all the products manufactured by then . (I still dont know all though :P)
2. The Managing Director has access to all the company emails of the important employees (Mine included. Can call myself important then :P) and once a week, (when I think he is bored to work), he goes through all the emails and gets hard copies of important mails during the week and sends the copies to the people to whom the email is addressed to. Strange.
3. He is completely obsessed over growth. Everytime I see him he gives me names of 4-5 chemicals and asks me to get the market information for them, which I find too tough to do. But feels nice to know that I will be involved in formulating the future strategy of the company.
4. I believe I have been given too much of a free hand at work - access to all internet sites (including facebook), a printer and lots of time to think over while collecting data. Strangely, no one minds here if I do a bit of facebooking and other tp like blog reading etc. In fact, I am advised to read blogs of people related to chemical fields as a part of RSS feed in Microsoft Outlook.
While I have been introduced to the people at the top like VP marketing, Director Finance, I have had almost no interaction with their colleagues and as such I have had no idea about what people, in general, feel about the company and bosses. I guess, insteaad of writing this blog, I need to speak to them now. :P
hahahahah :D but Purav, your company sounds really nice! :)
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