I have to "thank" my new client for giving me a new head start to my day. Due to the excuse of saving money, I have to get my lazy ass up earlier than expected.
My client's way of saving money is of course the new found way.....OUTSOURCING & OFF SHORING!!!!!!
Well one of the resources we have in our team is based in Bangalore, India, so that means odd hours. And yes odd hours it is. So in order for me to have status meetings and other catchup calls with this resource, I have to have meetings with this guy at 7:00 AM almost every other day, until he catches up. So I have to get up VERY EARLY for this meeting.
Mind you, I'm not a morning person at all, but I have to do this for the company and keeping a job.
Well today, he sends me and the team an email stating he's not going to be attending the phone session, since he is not feeling well. The message he sent was during our bedtime. So we 'merrily' went ahead with our sleepy eyed meeting. No sense in skipping it.
Now I have gotten more news today! MORE RESOURCES FROM INDIA!
That can only mean one thing.....more early morning meetings! Forget about getting any beauty sleep (dreaming about a beauty is what I mean)!!!
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Well, I suppose the alternative would be to relocate to Bangalore - then you could do those phone meetings later in the day. ;)
Early morning meetings are the bane of my existence.
Javaboy: Why don't they just move the whole IT bit to India??? I mean this is nuts.
Rush: I really don't get it. Is it that they want to get those meetings out of the way or are they just done to bother the hell out of us??? And the worse thing is that we end up revisiting the same issue again during an afternoon meeting!
Work sucks.
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