I got my market adjustment number today, not very satisfying, and it’s partly related to last year’s performance review. I don’t think I am doing exceptionally well and I got myself exposed to some political turmoils in the project, so the upcoming is kinda expectable. Even though the manager promise another adjustment in 3 months time if I am up to his expectation, I am not too warm about this carrot. 3 months time is not very long, I think I can keep my head down and just do my work. I kinda feel bad that when I work really hard and got good review, nothing happened due to the bad economy. The credits vanished got after walking into one bomb and another stupidly. I have to learn the lesson and try to avoid making the same mistake again. We’ll see what is going to happen in 3 months, that would be more a proof for myself, just like finishing the master degree, rather than for the compensation.
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My random thoughts of the day.
coperate culture
This afternoon when I had a meeting with the consultants from Versity about testbench architecture in the upcoming project, the consultant make a interesting comment about his observation in PMC’s coperate culture. He pointed out that the company is quite conservative in term of adopting new methodology and trying out new things, and I totally agree with him. For many times, I got turned down on suggesting the use of new cutting-edge cool development tools and was told to stick with the old proven way. The company is like a dinosaur, avoiding risk by ignoring the potentials coming with the risk. No wonder the we are slowing losing market shares in Telecom devices, and got slaughtered in the new market section where quick innovation is the key to success. Ok… enough whimming, gota go back to my M.Eng work, so I can escape from this boring company.
whole day training
I have all day training today from 9:30a.m. to almost 5:00p.m. Even the lunch time is not free, I have to go another presentation on the USB bus. Usually people say all day long meeting is quite unproductivity. But somehow I am managed to get some work done during the training session. I guess when I’m forced to sit still inside a room with other people, all the distraction like surfing the web, walking around or talking to friends are no longer an option. So I can either listen to the boring already known materials from the instructor, or I can actually get some work done using the computer in the lab.
purpose of life
This topic somehow arised in our Lasalle email group. I guess if you ask 100 people, you will found 100 different answers. I think the quest for the purpose of life is fun but meaningless, except it gives you a warm and fuzzy feeling and sophisticated chit-chat to impress your friends. One should not take it too seriously and stress himself out on those kind of mind traps. Just like religionous faith, this type of questions should just be treated as some kind of self amusment hobbies rather than an issue better than life or death. Somehow the topic later evolve into a discussion of my system of religious believes. Oh well… I guess I should starting think about a new entry in my theology/philosophy articles section. That is a piece of work I always want to write, but always too lazy to do proper research and preparation. Anyways, I should stop being distracted by this meaningless hobbies, gota concentrate on finishing my master degree first.
soccer, ryan
Today I have my second soccer game, I think I had improved a bit but because of there is no substitution player, I’m very very tried. I got to try being a goalie in the second half too. The next items I’m going to get will be a pair of shorts and goalie gloves.
Ryan who sits next to me and worked with me since the first day I joined PMC is jumping the boat too. I sorta have a feeling he will be the next one, but when I know the news today, I still have a mix feeling. I’m happy that he can escape from PMC, and I truely gave him a congratulation. On the other hand, I feel a bit let down, that we join the company about the some time, and he is now moving ahead of me. Well, can’t deny that he works much harder than I do that our team once joked he is so stress out that he will go postal and start shooting everyone. Anyways, I still wish him good luck in the new startup. Somehow I always remember Dave Culley’s mini lecture on why one should not wish other bad luck. One day I will turn it into my own mini lecture.