Learning - Jack of all trades

From my previous post, please do not assume that I am not learning anything in my first job. Thanks to my employer, I would not have got such kind of an opportunity to learn first hand the inefficiencies and ineffectiveness in management live which was otherwise thought to me using a case study. Given the fact that I wish to become a successful entrepreneur in the future, this job provides great insights. Filled with half baked KITs (Know It Alls), the boardroom stinks. I get to learn new English phrases everyday - "Hey Mister, why are you not pickuping my call", "Send me new product browsers". OMG... once being awarded the Best speaker of Business English, now I am scared to even open my mouth in such a highly respectable workplace... (Post will be continued soon)

‘On the field’ My 1st job – expectations unlimited!!!

Started my first day in the morn preparing a advertisement concept (to advertise our products) for the next edition of a well reckoned business magazine… “wow my boss is really great… has given me a great chance the very first day, let me prove my capabilities in my first assignment itself”, did some research to find out the buying behavior of our customers and prospects the next day, the days passed by and I was getting better and smarter…finally was about to end my first week 'on the field' with a high funda online product training session conducted by the international product manager of my company... By then I could hear some phone ringing, “boss?? Yes my boss is calling me to his cabin to discuss the marketing strategy I had devised the previous day, wow I am lucky to work with such a boss”, I flashed out to lift the call.. Oh my god, only then I could realize that it was rather the alarm clock and it was my servant maid who brought that close to my ear since she wanted to change the pillow cover. Only then I could realize that everything was a dream... got up vexed up but still like any other management enthu, I was so confident that my job will be really interesting... Its 5 months since then but still I'm enjoying my job only in the dream.... don't know whether to call it as a bad ending or sad beginning... :-(

how sick people are!!!

HR friends, please do not brand me as a poor team player after reading this article about people. This article is impersonal and also fictitious (per se) as well. 

 

Business schools promote this, Opinion leaders preach about this, students bluff during interviews saying they have learnt this so called "Team work". Though even I have mastered the art of saying I am a good team player, I feel I have never got the experience of working in teams - for all academics related activities, if its co-curricular activities, I find people make me dumb and everyone gets highly involved in most of the happenings ditching me..lol....

 

Loosely speaking, team work happens only per se especially from my experience wherein I was made the victim of doing all the work till the end of my PGPM or MBA. People try to make the highly committed student (in this case it’s me... lol...) to perform all the work and they get busy flirting around. 

 

 But still why the hell are you doing everything? Are you mad? Just don’t do it and see what happens??  

I can understand your question. I tried the same and my team mates helped me in increasing the liabilities of my brand equity i.e. spoiled my image as well...   

 

This article though, Initially I planned to write out of complete frustration, I am changing my focus on what can be done(Trying to be emotionally intelligent now..lol). I feel business schools wherein this happens (the quality of students is not all that great... again it includes me :-( ), the academicians should make sure that all the students put in efforts through relative marking (students marketing their peer group) which is being followed internationally, and also through espionage (get the help from one nerd or people pleaser who will be interested in leaking out all the facts). 

 

So to everyone, please stop preaching about team work when it is not implemented or rather happening at the ground level. Instead think about the tactics that can be used to make it happen.

 

Team mates, c'mon... stop bitching about me... let’s face the reality!!!