Wednesday, June 15, 2005
On Bench…
A very familiar term for the IT folks… it simply means you are a small fish in a big pool, where anyone can catch you… the irony is that you want to get caught at the earliest…
It sounds very good in the beginning … no work… no tensions of deadlines… taking early offs… but soon (especially for workaholics like me), it becomes a nightmare… another day spent unproductively…
Different companies have different names and policies … Wipro call its bench as Free Pool! (A pool of resources) … some companies have a policy of keeping 25-35% of resources on bench … in anticipation of the coming work. But what they forget is that by keeping people on bench they are discharging the batteries without even utilizing it. The energy levels and the morale of the employee swoops so down that even when he gets into a project, the hangover remains for a long time…
Since the day I joined Accenture, I am on bench. Not only that, I have been put in an office which is literally disconnected in terms of facilities (though in the middle of city). This office is meant for people like us … the ‘on benchers’. In a 500 capacity office… around 200 people are scattered around… though there are few projects running … the people around seems to be in leisure mood…
It is very discomforting, when I know where I am going to be… and I am somewhere because there is no seat available for me along with the team! They are expecting someone to go onsite, whose seat I’ll be occupying… interesting isn’t it!
Waiting in exile …
It sounds very good in the beginning … no work… no tensions of deadlines… taking early offs… but soon (especially for workaholics like me), it becomes a nightmare… another day spent unproductively…
Different companies have different names and policies … Wipro call its bench as Free Pool! (A pool of resources) … some companies have a policy of keeping 25-35% of resources on bench … in anticipation of the coming work. But what they forget is that by keeping people on bench they are discharging the batteries without even utilizing it. The energy levels and the morale of the employee swoops so down that even when he gets into a project, the hangover remains for a long time…
Since the day I joined Accenture, I am on bench. Not only that, I have been put in an office which is literally disconnected in terms of facilities (though in the middle of city). This office is meant for people like us … the ‘on benchers’. In a 500 capacity office… around 200 people are scattered around… though there are few projects running … the people around seems to be in leisure mood…
It is very discomforting, when I know where I am going to be… and I am somewhere because there is no seat available for me along with the team! They are expecting someone to go onsite, whose seat I’ll be occupying… interesting isn’t it!
Waiting in exile …
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I know it's easy to give advice, which is why I'll do it now :D
Learn something new. Carry a textbook with you and go through it while you're free. Or read. Write. Or simply keep posting to your blog.
Learn something new. Carry a textbook with you and go through it while you're free. Or read. Write. Or simply keep posting to your blog.
I think that even I have a better time that you at office... :-) ... just that i'm not paid for it ...
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