Disclaimer: This article is rephrased version of a sarcastic comment written by a frustrated employee of a popular IT company in India. This is not a serious article at all.
You have to follow few simple steps to get an onsite chance in IT industry. In every project meeting, pretend as if you know everything that’s going on in project. Though, technically you know nothing.
Just be your Project Manager’s pet. Take him out on parties, wish him Birthday even if it’s not his Birthday. The only key here is to have one skill — how to overshadow others, how to claim others work as yours.
The Project Manager or Senior Project Manager won’t know anything that’s going on in the project as he himself is concerned about his appraisal rating. And his rating is dependent on the length of time he spends with the Delivery Manager. In every project party he’ll accompany the Delivery Manager and talk cute stuff to his kids, buy them Ice creams and stuff.
Project Manager himself is not sound technically to understand something. In a meeting, you can even say that we can use STRUTS framework in a .NET project, and he’ll clap for you and nominate you for an Award.
The best thing to do here is come and fly Kites, make Rangolis on reception floors. Write out slogans on how to save the planet and trees, go out and help the poor people.
Just do all these things for exactly 3 months, and I bet that you’ll be on a project with Swiss client and in the fourth month you’ll be visiting the client location that will be Vienna or Austria or may be Amsterdam.
I couldn’t stop laughing after reading this comment. Comment your views.
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