The Company ...

Its been more than 2 years in Abu Dhabi now and boredom is starting to creep in now. No more am I enjoying the place; nor do I like exploring it any more. A usual weekend is movies (ocassionally swimming) and eating out. However, the most fascinating thing about this place is my job ...

I joined my current company back in June 2007 and have been trying to figure out since then as to what this company is trying to achieve. In the last two years my profile has been changed more than thrice (LOL) and now it feels that if I was made the head of department tomorrow may be I would be able to do the job better than it has been done. I came here straight out of B-School and this turned out be completely opposite to every principle of business I was taught. Infact, I can actually write a book on it with the title "How not to run your business" and grab some best seller awards for sure (some of my colleagues are already updating their scarp books for later use). Infact on one of the trip outside of UAE recently one of my senior colleague told me a very important thing - if you work with fools, tell other that you work with fools; else when the world realizes that you worked with fools they would take you as a fool as well ...

The bureaucracy really amazes me. There are more than two people or two departments trying to do the same thing and unfortunately none has accountability for the task assigned (atleast we are good at job creation in these recessionary times). Strategy of the company has changed more than twice in the last 2 years (however I must admit that so has the senior management). Every morning we all speak about everything else in the world apart from what we are suppose to talk about - "InvestmentManagement". Jokes are usually PJ's and generally people believe that they are better than Buffet or Soros .. let alone that some people quote that Soros did what they spoke about a few weeks back. The frog has never leaped out of the well and thinks he the king of the world. People who earn more than me ask me such stupid questions that I couldnt take it any more today and just decided to leave office mid-day to save myself from aggravating my frustration.

Every one is aiming at a target in dark and hoping to hit the bullseye (little do they reliaze that the target is on the other side).
There is no dialouge between the top-middle-junior management. There is no workflow in place. Everyday one has to open his/her mailbox and see what tasks are assigned to that individual for the day. And my boss derives pleasure out of it saying that you guys need to be good at "ad-hoc" tasks (mera boss actually "f" ko "l" samazta hai ;) .

I hope I am proven wrong however if my understanding of business is true; places like these can never go too far. When I came into this company I was enthu about a lot of things and now I just hope I can survive here till the time I find another job ...