Saturday, February 28, 2009

What mistake did Software Engineers do?

The article written by me has been published in Andhra Bhoomi Weekly dated 5th March 2009.

Friday, February 20, 2009

Thoughts of a Building

With the economic downfall most of the Mansions have turned introvert and have been silenced.

Once upon a time I was very busy and had no time to spare. I had regular foreign visitors and VIP’s from different walks of life. Surrounding me were green lawns with plants procured from various parts of the World that made every one stand for a minute with their cool breeze, pleasant smell and colorfulness.

The architects who are specialized in specific areas have created me with colorfulness, wall to wall carpet, centralized AC, good lighting and excellent ventilation.

With no difference of day and night, conferences and meetings were scheduled to cater to those across the world and there by even mid night looked bright and warm. With the busy schedule of employees no one knew what silence is.

Be this as it may, suddenly I started looking at a drastic change that brought about great concern in Employees, leading to brooding over trivial items. The lecture halls that have been extremely busy are now found to be Vacant. Those who had the inclination to taste all verities of special food have started to economize on their food habits.

Finally the economic down fall has fallen on me also and accordingly many lay off’s have come into lime light. With this I had no option to control myself as I saw some of them leaving. This gradually led to secluding myself.

Monday, February 16, 2009

Inspire

A depressed boy asked God, can there be anything worse than losing a job?
God replied: Yes, losing your confidence of getting another.

Life is too short to wake up with regrets, Love the people who treat you right and forget about the ones who don't.

Friendship and death are two un-invited guests, when they come nobody knows. But both do the same work, one takes the heart and the other its beats......

The efficient will look for an opportunity in every problem and the inefficient will look for a problem in every opportunity.

My friend and I have an understanding. We understand that it takes more than understanding to understand each other.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Software Indusrty

As the software industry is down yesterday’s news items are the whole world has turned upside down, the industries of real estate, banking etc have shown and reported loss and also because of high class life of software the middle class is facing problems.

Who are software engineers? Have they come down from the sky? Is that industry specially designed? They come from low class and middle class with their hard work and study. Today they are in this stage because of their un-relented efforts with their steadfastness and determination and with their earnings they have fulfilled their dreams. All financial institutions have made enormous money because of the high pay of software engineers as these high salaries were paid to them by the industry only because of their cleverness, timeliness and on time quality delivery.

Every industry will have its boom and then over a period of time will come down. This does not mean that they are worthless. Our biggest drawback is to compare our self with others and also demeaning one self. For us to grow and also to fulfill our dreams we can do so from any industry. There are many who with their hard work have grown from poverty to millionaires.

If in any company a scam occurs, the employees are blamed by saying that it happened because of them, there is no boom, and we thought that this would happen and not talking to them as they were interacting earlier etc. All this is leading to the depression of some of the employees of that company. We need not do anything special, we need to be mind full of the fact that we will do lot of good by not hurting them with our words and jokes.

As the famous writer Yandamoori Veerendranath said, the wave which has gone up has to come down necessarily, the software boom has enabled the power of purchase, and as the industry is down the power of purchase has come down, but that does not imply that there is no development. We need to welcome CHANGE.