Disappointments from Apple’s recent April Event

Apple event on 20th April had mixed feelings for me, as I was expecting few out of the box announcements from Apple and they would surprise everyone with their trademark “one last thing”. However, there was no such announcements from Apple and the event seemed as predicted from tech experts. Here are few out of the box expectations from me. 

• Upcoming redesigned Apple Watch: Apple Watch design has been consistent since launch and there was no major redesign or update on design. I was expecting Apple to show a glimpse of next generation Apple Watch with exclusive features and tempting redesign. 
• Upcoming AirPods 3: the redesigned AirPods have been in rumours for a long time and the leak sites were going a step ahead, by showing glimpses of next version of AirPods. However, for no reason Apple had not made any comment on the same and the most worrying part is that, if at all Apple is going to launch next version of AirPods, there was a huge confusion. Whether the newer version is going to be replacement of AirPods 2 or more advanced version of AirPods Pro. 

With no announcements or updates on above products, we can only hope that Apple addresses or launches next version of the product by September. To know more about such posts, please feel free to check out the blog posts listed on G R Team Sites.

Frustrated with announcement from Google Photos

With Google announcing that all photos uploaded to the photo's app post June, will be accumulated against overall account storage, I have been actively looking out for alternative online cloud storage choice with reliability and affordable pricing plan. Finally, I have zeroed on to Microsoft’s OneDrive as my preferred storage choice and while about to pay for the subscription, I noticed a real bummer against OneDrive. Recently, OneDrive app have decided to stop support for the chrome-cast and now users will not be able to share their photos or videos to big TV through Chrome-cast. It was real shocker to me as I have decided OneDrive as my preferred online storage option to backup all my photos and videos, now I come across the news that the OneDrive app has stopped support for chrome-cast. This news was real shocker, as my priority for choice of OneDrive as my preferred online cloud storage was based on assumption that, it had built-in support for chrome-cast. To know more about my choice for preferred online cloud storage for backing up photos, please feel free to check out blog posts in “G R Team Sites” 

Switching from Android to iPhone 11 mobile

I was using my wife’s android phone for past few months and was waiting for launch of affordable version of iPhone from Apple. However, all my plans shattered due to its abnormal price increase and left our charger back and smaller size. With no options left, I had to look out for attractive discounts for iPhone 11 version and trusting steep discounts for festive season, I bought AirPods Pro for its seamless integration with iPhone. After waiting for a long time in a specified shopping site’s portal, there was not much of a discount and I had to check out other online shopping site for offer. Finally, one shopping site had the most attractive pricing and without hesitation I placed the order for payment. Only on payment page I realized that the attractive pricing is applicable only for specific cards and unfortunately, I did not have that card. Post traumatic experience, I reached out to my uncle for the specific card and placed the order for iPhone 11. The experience of shifting to iPhone was another level and to know more please feel free to check out the “G R Team Sites”

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There may be wide range of online shopping sites out there in the web promising users to find shapewear and trainer products. However most online shopping networks out there in the market lack quality of the products, expensive price tag and unique collection. So, it is important to get insights and information from experts. The smart option, we recommend for our readers is to check out reliable wholesale online shopping network for quality products. Lover-Beauty is one of the stand-alone online shopping networks in the market helping users to find quality and reliable shapewear products. The most unique aspect of the Lover-Beauty online shopping network is their large collection of products at wholesale price, which no other competitor in its class could offer. 

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Looped again with the same irritating onsite team

I was without work for a long time due to system issues and lockdown restrictions, finally, the issue was resolved, and I was back into my team for work. For the first few days, no new work was assigned to me and my manager was still on the assumption that my laptop still had issues. After some time, I felt low without any work and simply browsing internet videos and finally dropped a note to my manager saying that my laptop issues were resolved, and I can be assigned with new work. I did not know that I will be assigned to work again with the same irritating onsite team lead and complicated offshore delivery lead. Based on the assignment sheet shared by my manager, the work was more complicated than I expected and the first draft to be shared in a week, with the final submission scheduled later by a month. I was completely lost with these notes, as I must work now with these irritating onsite squad that leads for a month and that too while connecting from home. To know more about how I worked on this opportunity and successful completion of work without any escalations, please feel free to check out the blog posts in "G R Team Sites"

Information about Dorin Compressors

If you are in the field of refrigeration and air conditioning, then you should be aware of how quality compressors will ensure smooth and seamless business operations. You may have known of different compressor manufacturing companies out there in the market. However, most compressor manufacturers lack reliability, customer support, and quality of products delivered to customers. So, make sure that you check out reliable compressors for your refrigeration and air conditioning systems from trusted and quality manufacturers like Dorin. Dorin is one of the pioneers in manufacturing compressor products for refrigeration and air conditioning systems since 1932. 

Dorin adopts a unique production process that includes all products that are individually checked and certified by experts backed up by their R&D and QC center. Dorin offers a complete and diversified collection of compressors for businesses that can be used across applications, from supermarkets to transport up to the agri-food industry and pharmaceutical needs. Dorin manufactured compressors offer excellent energy savings and meet efficiency standards that no other competitor manufacturer in its class could offer. Besides, Dorin also offers 360° assistance for its products with its top qualified personnel, expertise in the field of engineering, finance, and marketing. If you were ever looking for a reliable, quality, and trusted compressor manufacturer with excellent customer support, then Dorin manufactured products would be the smart option. For more information on their diversified compressor product collection, please feel free to check out the above-mentioned link.

No support from the manager and additional tasks

With no option but to work on all the tasks assigned by the onsite team, I was expecting at least some support from my manager to stand against them and convey that we will work on the documents once we get finalized requirements from the client. Therefore, I started my work by prioritizing all the task lists shared by the onsite and was looking to address those tasks as early as possible. However, out of nowhere my manager inquired me about the open tasks and believing that my manager will support me in getting it completed, I gave a status update on all tasks. He closed the conversation with just a single acknowledgment and did not bother me with my task list. Within a few minutes, my manager messaged me again with new work out of nowhere and wanted the work to be completed within a short time. Now, I had two tasks in my hand, a task assigned by the onsite team and the additional task was from my manager with irrelevant details. To know more on how I completed both tasks, please feel free to check out the blog posts in "G R Team Sites”.

New long work from my manager

So, after reaching my hometown for a long vacation, I had to connect from home for office work for 2 days and was hoping that I don’t get work while connecting from home. Till forenoon, there was absolute silence in my mailbox and was just hoping that it would be like the same for the next 2 days. Unfortunately, all my hope just vanished away in a second by my manager and he was pinging me for new work out of nowhere. I was completely furious over new work from my manager and didn’t want to respond to those emails. However, after a long delay, I had no other option but to reply his with all the documents that he has requested for. I was hoping that he would acknowledge my work, but he replied to my mail with a long thread detailing additional documents and the earliest update by the end of the day. I was completely furious and wanted to just drop notes stating that I would not be able to get all those documents in a day and would require additional time than anticipated. However, I got an idea of checking those documents in my Company's share point folder, and to my surprise, I found exact requested documents. To know more about what happened next, please feel free to check out the blog posts in “G R Team Sites”

Working tirelessly for the second consecutive day to complete

Based on my discussion with the offshore delivery lead, we have concluded that we will go ahead with whatever storyline we have initially drafted and send the updated document to the on-site team for further review since we do not have any updates for the document, which was sent earlier. Again, the delivery person and I were working hard throughout the day, as both of us have vacation plans coming up and wanted to close this service request as early as possible. However, we were anxious about our thought process, whether the changes we were making were relevant or matching the client detailed requirements. Finally, by close of the day after so much of hard work and tireless discussion, we were able to complete the document. Post completion, I called the offshore delivery lead and was discussing the changes made today and how the entire document was structured, suddenly out of nowhere the delivery lead was checking whether we covered all client requests. I was taken aback by this comment, as we were working tirelessly for the past two days and I was sure about how I have envisioned structure for the client requirements. To know more about our decision, please feel free to checkout “G R Team Sites”

My approach to complete initial version

With no support from my manger and feeble information from my teammates, I was struggling a lot to complete the initial version of the document and to share it with the leadership team for review. With only a few hours left for the completion of the initial version, I have made up my stand and started to consolidate information as much as possible with a defined structure. At one point, it seemed the document had more information than what the client has initially requested, and I ensured all the topics that the leadership team mentioned in the call were addressed in the document. Before document to be shared with the leadership team, I had to review with my manager and as usual, he was suggesting some irrelevant changes that would not make any difference to the document and he was also requesting me to add some new information that was irrelevant to the flow. I had no other option but to implement those suggestions and this time I was acting smart by just copy-pasting the information from the previous document without even changing the content and just adding headline to that information. To know more about what happened next, please feel free to check out “G R Team Sites”

Most irritating act from delivery person

After politely declining to send a deck with draft outline and slides by EOD, I closed the conversation and was taking care of other activities pending at my end. However, after close of the day, I got a call from my manager and he was requesting whether I can support the service request over the weekend and it has urgent deliverable to be reviewed by the leadership team. I was completely surprised by the request, because before few hours I was clearly detailing out the reasons to the delivery person not to publish any version, as it would draw too many comments and would divert from client requirements. However, he had called my manager and was requesting his attention for my support over weekend. I was completely furious with these silly outcomes and was conveying to my manager that, I have some personal work to attend and would try to address the request whenever I get some time. He was expecting me to support for the entire weekend, which would be next to impossible for me and I don’t want to waste my time by publishing an unwanted version to leadership team. To know more, please check out posts at “G R Team Sites”

Review with my manager for the deck

In addition, my manager told that he got comment from the offshore delivery lead that the slide deck which I prepared was not coming out, what was actually expect from my team and my manager was suggested to review my work every time when I send out the slides. This was complete slap on my face, and I couldn’t take care of the slides anymore and wanted to know which delivery lead was commenting about the deck. My manager was resistant to reveal which delivery lead gave the comment about my deck, and later on I found out that it was the same delivery lead with whom I was working earlier on irritating opportunity with team full of idiots. I conveyed to my manager that the deck was prepared based upon the call with the offshore delivery person, who was assigned to support me on this opportunity and the topics suggested by him. Continue reading at “G R Team Sites”

Completely unexpected happened in Monday call

Monday morning started and I was again working on this irritating opportunity. I was trying to get as much information as possible from the available sources and simultaneously I was also updating the deck based upon the commands shared by the leaders in the earlier call. In meantime, I was also checking with delivery POC who was assigned from offshore to support me on this opportunity, that what are all the updates that required in today’s call and the information that we need to collate based upon the review. However, the offshore delivery POC was too busy and was requesting me to schedule a call later in the afternoon to review the updates and information that might be required from his end. I politely told him that I would schedule a call, but in meantime I will get the necessary information and the slides as much as possible from my end for the today’s call. With all this information clearly passed on to the offshore delivery POC, the exact opposite thing happened. Learn more about what happened on Monday at G R Team sites.

Discussion and things happening while rating finalization

I was getting even more anxious about my rating, as my teammate who reports to the other manager got his rating and the ratings for entire team was finalized. While I was waiting anxiously for my rating colleague who sits next to my seat also confirmed that rating have been shared to them by their team manager. There was discussion happening around the office that the rating for all employees would be shared earliest by 2 or 3 days. I was anxious about my rating and was looking forward for my rating and comments from my manager. Since, I was given first rating for the previous year and got information that my colleagues from other location was not happy about it and wanted to give first rating to another colleague. However, most of my teammates knew that I was working hard on my deliverables and always exceeded expectations from key owners, and I was also sure that I would not be awarded third rating. Read about my rating in the posts detailed in “G R Team Sites”

How should I decide about writing these posts?

It’s been long time since I was writing posts for my sites and know very few of my readers would feel disappointed about the continuation or frequent post updates. However, I would like to clarify few things from end as well and how difficult it is for me to write these posts with all my busy work schedule, personal work and family commitments. I will start with family, as it is my first priority and it is like adrenalin to me. I have a very young family with a kid ageing a year and I got married one and half years back. Family stays in native and every week or once in two weeks I would be travelling back to native to spend some quality time. Second constraint while writing these posts is that, I work for an IT giant and most of my weekdays would be completely occupied and would literally have no time to check even the sites. The final constraint is that I run small business at my native and most of leisure time in weekdays will be consumed in that business. I will elaborate more about my constraints for writing posts in one of the upcoming posts. Continue reading at “G R Team Sites”