Professional Ruminations

Yes, this blog has come all the way from Coimbatore - India, and that too after a long pause - which I should have avoided or rather, I shall avoid in the future. In this blog, to narrate the real challenges that I encounter after coming back to the home town - after spending nearly 4 years, yes its just 4 years out of India.

Things are changed in my OLD (Now very new) office. Almost all are provided with the laptops, centralized HR team, centralized payroll system, centralized time office management, centralized billing pattern, computation of billing recovery etc., etc., The filing (client records) procedures are different than that of what I have seen / done 4 years ago. Almost everything is system driven. There is a minimum fees criteria for every assignment.The T & E system also system based and policies are different. More imporatantly, the pay scale is different. Barring a few, almost all staff members were new.

Having said that, I notice some of the unchanged (rather will never change easily) in the SAME office. Yes, the attitude, friendliness and mechanisms. The culture of calling people at all levels with the prefix of "SIR" - in my humble personal opinion which impliedly generates some sort of gap between the persons / team mates. This is typical Indian office culture, that I want to strip out. And, if I don't use the term "SIR" and call them with their names (yes, its their own names only), there starts the problem of disrespect to the other person. But, I understand from my little experience, what the people believe in the western / other asian countries (corporates), is calling with their names increase bondage of the persons. For e.g. I used to call the US Finance Controller and Asia AMET Finance Controllers with their names - no matter how old are they!

I'm just wondering, if I never got a chance to go abroad, I would also be in the same league. Therefore, I'm facing bit difficulties RIGHT NOW.. Hope things changes.