Management Consultant.

Mon, March 29, 2010

Reached JFK in the morning. Cathy pacific CX888 landed around 7:20am after a turbulent ride and shakey landing.

got out of immigration around 9:30am as the officially Approved and Labeled as ""Management Consultant"" by the US dept of Immigration and Border Services :))))) yea another progress in 2010 and its just end of Q1 ;)... bye bye NY, Philly here I come ..... :)..... What a swing from the Lows of Feb to the Highs of March ,

funny how I was playing advisor to the Immigration official and telling them that TN is now for 3 years and that I need a new I-94 with the name of the new company I am going to work with.

10:40 Booked Avis with GPS and drop off at Philadelphia location for $250 plus. beats taking $100 taxi to down town NY and then ticket costs to Philly from NY

12: Thanks to GPS navigated thru Brooklyn and Manhattan and reach jersey city parking by PATH near journal sq. $8 parking fee.

1:00pm reach Guardian office.
Send out resignation mail to Beulah, Narayana and krishna hand over lap top and id card to Narayana. Say bye to jose and Krishna and Kishore.
1:30 out of the Guardian building.

Was so glad that i was able to exit out of the project. As they had been in Development (DEV) phase for the past 7 months and did not do anything worth while. Suddenly now its Unit and Application Testing (UAT) phase and they want me to come and do the 7 month job in 1 month. Then if things don't work the way its supposed , I would be the temporary guy they got in to take the blame..... no way am I going to be there to take the blame for someone elses Mistakes and bad planning.

And to top it all, there seems to be lots of political power struggle within Satyam - mahindra. The young Account manager Beulah had a show down with Krishna who has been playing his own games since he was with the project the longest and maybe harboring resent as he was not appointed project manager. It seems he was going to the Client and talking with them on his own and not been a team.... hot words and argument.. like little kids.... just feel lucky that I got out of that place.

2:10 get back to Parking near Journal square
Drive to Red Carpet and park in the parking to access internet.
Call up Radish Pillia of Apex 2000 (middle man/recruiter) and explain the stuff to him about the happenings in Satyam

2:40pm Start off from Red Capet parking

Around 4:50 REach Merck office in West point... 2hrs of driving in the rain and poor visibility. wow talk about stress and lack of sleep.

Call up Ajit who is Cognizant project manager and someone I worked with in Indianapolis when we were working for Client Sallie Mae and tell him i am at the Merck parking lot. He is in a meeting so says will be out soon to meet me.

Send out text msgs to Anup to call up home and tell them that i have arrived safely.

Ajit calls around 6 and is wondering where in the Visitors parking I am, turns out That I am at gate 5 and he is at gate 2. Getting scared with the cell phone rates that I will be dinged with cause of the internationla calls from US. costs about $1.3 per min.
MEt with Ajit after getting lost in the huge Merck campus. wow. then talked to him about my concerns of dropping off the car at PHI airport. He offered to drive me at night to drop off and drive me back.

So go and get into the Former Best Western hotel lady said 79 per night. (have to cross confirm).
Ahhhh what a great feeling to brush my teeth have a warm shower. My first since I landed in the morning at JFK.

8:30 Ajit comes and picks me up and after dropping off the car at the Airport which is around 44 miles..and driving thru downtown Philly get back home around 10pm.

Get text msg from Anup that he called up home and told parents.

Restaurant at hotel is closed. So walk over to the nearest intersection and find a Family owned Carols Pizzeria run by guys sounding like they are speaking Arabic.
Order a medium Chicken pizza. about $15.
had two slices and it was more than I could have eaten. And that was my lunch and dinner and also break fast I guess.
Saving the rest for tomorrow.

Phew what an coming to an end to an Hectic and very Event full month.

Everything seems to be falling into place except my personal life. ,,,,,, which seems to have taken a turn for the worse.
Well atleast I tried and tried with out giving up hope. And it takes effort from two (100+100 = 200%) to make it work and happen......

You will know your true friends and the ones that will truly LOVE you and be in your life forever, when you go thru the tough and low times in your life. They will be there like family to support you and love you no matter what.
The fake people just run away, cause they are just about themselves. And its natures way of helping you shed the unwanted and help move on with the real and positive people who will be by your side thru good and bad times.