10th Feb 2010 
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I had my own performance review every year, but it is the first time I give performance review to my team. Just like giving interview, sitting on the other side of the table is a total difference experience. I am still a supervisor in training,… [...]
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Last year, I was invite to give a talk to grade six student on career day about my work. A student asked me what is the working hours like. I told him engineers work flexible hours. They don’t understand what’s flexible hours, so the… [...] A colleague just resign today and decide to go to medical school. I only got half of the fact when I heard the news, , I thought he is already accepted by medical school so I went to congratulate him. It turns out he is making a very bold move. He has… [...] It is easy to keep the employees happy as long as they have hope and sense of control over their life. As long as the company is growing, making lots of money, have a deep profit margin and the employee benefits from the success, the employees will… [...] After the layoff last year, the size of my company has shrink quite a bit. The current office space seems to be too spacious with empty cubicles here and there. The management decide to lower the rental cost by terminating the lease of the 4th floor.… [...] The visiting VP is taking the team out for dinner tonight, thank us for the hard work during the project. Business with your boss, your boss’ boss and your boss’ boss’ boss is usually timid and boring, you can’t talking… [...] My colleague sit next to me just resign. He quits his job to start his own business. My first response is congratulate him getting out of this hell. The executives find new ways to lower the employees’ morale every week, it’s just… [...] Weekend overtime only means one thing, the incompetent of the management. This weekend I have to work overtime. It is not just checking emails or dealing with unexpected emergencies. I was asked to come into the office and work like a work day.… [...] My company just make a perfect demonstration on how to demoralize your employees. The economy is bad, everywhere is cutting jobs or costs, our company is the same. However, there are two ways of cost cutting, the smart way or the stupid way. Other… [...] In a recession market, it is understandable for a company trying its best to cut its budget in order to stay afloat. However, cutting the supply of box Kleenex to the employees is way too cheap. Not only the box Kleenex won’t save the company… [...] 這幾天接二連三傳出大企業裁員的消息﹐匯豐花旗渣打無線﹐陸續宣報解僱員工削減人手。財政司長曾俊華例牌地站出來說幾句門面話﹐竟然惹來各方批評﹐說他沒有對大企業施壓﹐阻止裁員潮的發生。其實財政司長根本沒有權力做什麼﹐難道叫政府立法禁止企業解僱員工﹐還是向企業承諾包底﹐由庫房代付要削減員工的薪酬。職工盟的李卓人﹐更批評大企業在金融海嘯下裁員﹐是落井下石不負社會責任。可是在金融海嘯的大浪捲過來的時候﹐大企業自己也自身難保﹐若不趁早壯士斷臂緊縮開支﹐到時恐怕己不是落井下石﹐而是大家抱著一齊死了。… [...] Like many companies outsource to India, my company come to realize outsourcing is not as effective as the business magazine claims. No one can escape from the fundamental law of economics, what you pay is what you get. Yes, going to India seems… [...] I am back in India for two weeks. I am not very excited, but work is work. This time I am taking dragon air and make the transfer in Hong Kong. The new 777 from Air Canada is pretty comfortable, the seat is wider and it has power sockets. I can… [...] It always seems work is extra busy right before you are about to take a long vacation. I will be away 3 weeks for my wedding and honey moon. There is only 1 week of work time left before I take off. Although I have planned the vacation many months… [...] Today we have our department quarterly update. The director flew in town to give us overview of how the department is doing. My project is the only project in the department, so it has very high profile and no room to fail. Thanks to the stupid… [...] In this project, I am supervising 3 team members in our India office. This week, I am really disappointed by their lack of productivity. I have assigned them some tasks for the week and they are very behind in completing the tasks. It would… [...] The schedule of the project at work is really bad. My part has been slipped for almost 3 weeks already. I suppose to have 1.5 months to verify my block before I take off for vacation. However my work depends on the deliverable from other team members.… [...] In the quarterly design analysis meeting, the manager of a cancelled project blamed the failure partly on the delay in verification. In that project, the verification schedule is underestimate at least by a factor of four. I think his comment… [...] There is another round of layoff today in the company. We had already lost track of the number of layoff, it maybe the fifth or the sixth round. It is not affecting the Headquarter in Burnaby at all. Over 60 engineers are let go in the Santa Clara… [...] Today during lunch Bob Bailey, the CEO of PMC, sat with our table. I knew this is going to happen when we picked his usual table in the first place. This is the first time I had ever talked to him since I joined the company. He is pretty much up to my expectation,… [...] |
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