These days we all are getting the appreciation mails :) . And this gets better and better. People are getting appreciation for doing their standard job. And being happy about it.
This may be motivating for whole lot of people but some how I find it funny. Appreciation for anything seems like taking away the value. I'd like my contribution to be acknowledged and thats all. Not really made out an example for anything.
The doing of a job gives me pleasure. A work well done, I don't need appreciation for it. I already know if I did a good or bad job.
Do I need appreciation for things I just did, w/o my heart in it? More pertinent question, why did I even do it?
Primarily appreciation/acknowledgment is motivating only when it comes from people I respect and I anyway know I did a good job according to my standards. Now, an appreciation w/o a definition of standards is truly limiting.
Thursday, March 09, 2006
Monday, March 06, 2006
Salary is low
Why do we continue to crib about low salary? Is it low? OR it is low in comparison to everybody else?
Can I make my ends meet and save some for my 100 K? Yeah, I can and I don't want to compare my salary with equivalent profiles (it is low actually :) ). Should it affect me? I don't think so.
Two people are never same, some just negotiated better, some passed out from IIT etc.These will be rewarded no matter what.
Ok, let me ask a more pertinent question. Will I leave if I get a 20% raise from the competitor company? No, I don't think so.
I may leave because of following reasons
1. My colleagues think they are too smart and can go back to their stated commitments (verbal , so what) and then write mails like -"hey Gagan, I think there is a disconnect here, What I said was not this(whatever) but blah, blah ....." .
2. How many times I'm disturbed from doing what I like doing. At my place if I'm reading a book I'm not disturbed, but in office on an average I spend 30% of my day in meetings :) . Truly hateful. I'd prefer keeping a day aside for status, skip, and other management meetings, just don't be there everyday.
Can I make my ends meet and save some for my 100 K? Yeah, I can and I don't want to compare my salary with equivalent profiles (it is low actually :) ). Should it affect me? I don't think so.
Two people are never same, some just negotiated better, some passed out from IIT etc.These will be rewarded no matter what.
Ok, let me ask a more pertinent question. Will I leave if I get a 20% raise from the competitor company? No, I don't think so.
I may leave because of following reasons
1. My colleagues think they are too smart and can go back to their stated commitments (verbal , so what) and then write mails like -"hey Gagan, I think there is a disconnect here, What I said was not this(whatever) but blah, blah ....." .
2. How many times I'm disturbed from doing what I like doing. At my place if I'm reading a book I'm not disturbed, but in office on an average I spend 30% of my day in meetings :) . Truly hateful. I'd prefer keeping a day aside for status, skip, and other management meetings, just don't be there everyday.
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