The stage was set for a grand finale. No losses so far in the tournament. Fantastic semifinal victory. Captain giving a chance to score the final run and finish the match in style. My friend Ganesan too, not that big a fan of cricket, sharing that viral "Magnificent MSD" report on FB. What more needed for a cricket fan like me to get over-excited ! To sit and watch that final T20 match with both eyes open till the last ball of the 20th over. I did watch. India lost, that too without showing me how to play the 20th over, for that matter even the 19th over. Yes, this phenomenon happens - KLPD - Knowing Little of Potential Disappointment- that is in store for us. Especially when we are too excited in a state.
Am I not faced with this KLPD situation in the past ? Not once but many times. Let me elaborate one such instance which can be shared in this platform.
Those days, I was a poor software engineer. Had been working for a while, with no foreign trip. What an insult, I just could not bare that. People around me give party while going abroad. People give party when they are there. People give party once they return. Is there anything wrong in me wishing to throw such interesting parties apart from writing all that uninteresting code which seldom works ?
Finally my day arrived. For a Japanese customer. "To study the requirement of a fully computerized system to optimize the public transport system" that single line scope at 50000 feet level was the scope of onsite study for me. I felt good. In such an "all-inclusive" scope statement. Even if I write "People need to go by walk and may avoid using the public transport system" with out even looking at any thing, it would be another punch-line in my study report.
Before zeroing down on me, our manpower allocation manager (mam) did a quick check of the people with the required skills. One of the requirements was to have knowledge in programming language ada. None of us knew about existence of such cruel language. But mam didn't give up. He used that powerful "grep" utility that will do a string search and provide the list of those documents that have the dubious presence of that string. "Eureka", he was so excited, he found 3 matches for the string ada. But then KLPD had to happen, those 3 documents had "Pravin kumar Reddy from Vijayawada, Sri ram ram venkata krishna from Vijayawada, Gantala chandika chirnajeevi raidu, again from Vijayawada ! So ultimately mam felt sorry for my sad state of affairs and decided to suggest my name to do that high-speed story.
Got my Japanese stamp done on my passport. Looking at those picture like words, I still believe they convey the meaning "yes this poor person needs a break and we approve his travel to Japan" ! I quickly learnt a few things as how to bow down and how to hold those chopsticks. Went to near-by fish stall and get used that smell of raw fish which was caught a few days back. I was nothing but excited.
But "n" number of bowing down by our sales guy in front of that ever smiling Japanese customer, it did not work. Seeing our credentials, especially seeing our expertise which detailed our vast experience in the transportation domain, - highlighting our meeting with one of the senior managers in KSRTC to understand their problems in canteen services - customer bowed down in front of our sales guy. Not facing him but looking totally in the opposite direction !! Again, KLPD for me, no foreign trip - but continue writing paras in plain English - otherwise known as COBOL.
After reading this blog till here, with lots of expectation and if you are in a state of "Knowing Little of Potential Disappointment" , then all I can say is - don't get disappointed. After all human race continues to exist just because of the fact we guys can come out of these severe disappointments and move on.
Am I not faced with this KLPD situation in the past ? Not once but many times. Let me elaborate one such instance which can be shared in this platform.
Those days, I was a poor software engineer. Had been working for a while, with no foreign trip. What an insult, I just could not bare that. People around me give party while going abroad. People give party when they are there. People give party once they return. Is there anything wrong in me wishing to throw such interesting parties apart from writing all that uninteresting code which seldom works ?
Finally my day arrived. For a Japanese customer. "To study the requirement of a fully computerized system to optimize the public transport system" that single line scope at 50000 feet level was the scope of onsite study for me. I felt good. In such an "all-inclusive" scope statement. Even if I write "People need to go by walk and may avoid using the public transport system" with out even looking at any thing, it would be another punch-line in my study report.
Before zeroing down on me, our manpower allocation manager (mam) did a quick check of the people with the required skills. One of the requirements was to have knowledge in programming language ada. None of us knew about existence of such cruel language. But mam didn't give up. He used that powerful "grep" utility that will do a string search and provide the list of those documents that have the dubious presence of that string. "Eureka", he was so excited, he found 3 matches for the string ada. But then KLPD had to happen, those 3 documents had "Pravin kumar Reddy from Vijayawada, Sri ram ram venkata krishna from Vijayawada, Gantala chandika chirnajeevi raidu, again from Vijayawada ! So ultimately mam felt sorry for my sad state of affairs and decided to suggest my name to do that high-speed story.
Got my Japanese stamp done on my passport. Looking at those picture like words, I still believe they convey the meaning "yes this poor person needs a break and we approve his travel to Japan" ! I quickly learnt a few things as how to bow down and how to hold those chopsticks. Went to near-by fish stall and get used that smell of raw fish which was caught a few days back. I was nothing but excited.
But "n" number of bowing down by our sales guy in front of that ever smiling Japanese customer, it did not work. Seeing our credentials, especially seeing our expertise which detailed our vast experience in the transportation domain, - highlighting our meeting with one of the senior managers in KSRTC to understand their problems in canteen services - customer bowed down in front of our sales guy. Not facing him but looking totally in the opposite direction !! Again, KLPD for me, no foreign trip - but continue writing paras in plain English - otherwise known as COBOL.
After reading this blog till here, with lots of expectation and if you are in a state of "Knowing Little of Potential Disappointment" , then all I can say is - don't get disappointed. After all human race continues to exist just because of the fact we guys can come out of these severe disappointments and move on.
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