Part 4. Dedication to the core ....

As i was celebrating new year ..little did i realise the horrors that were to come. First weekend of 2007, me and neeraj were summoned and were asked to look into an issue that HRMS team were facing, i was having cold fever then and we both managed to support the team in their issues.

I was caught in one of the biggest scandal that emerged in internal systems, KB.NET ...that was just a folder in one of the servers i manage ..server name is isg-mercury..that folder went missing suddenly and i was made to feel that as though a mutli million project got lost because of that.... thanks to few developers ...as usual made some cover ups and managed to get out of the scandal....


Next our bosses decided to purchase a new server B and move all application from server A-B, B-C.....rename B as A and A as B....didn't have the courage to argue on their decisions and went ahead and started implementing.. meanwhile there was a new version of few applications getting released..our bosses considering the impact on business decided to do everything on pongal holidays. i could see lot of hardwork,dedication and commitment from Subbu's team during this period...and me and my senior closely worked with them..

Now hexaware management decided to re-organise their department structure...... simple it might sound..but it was another great challenge that internal systems faced as it had a major impact on all the applications...this was the period where me and my senior faced the heat..

All applications were brought to a standstill ....now Neeraj and me did peoplesoft application and Db movement from mumbai to chennai ....so here we were working all day on department restructure and working all night on peoplesoft application move, we finished the move in the early hours of the next day ....both of us felt elated as everything went as per our plan ...our department head appreciated us and wrote that was dedication to the core..later this became a nick name and people started calling dedication to core ...

But there were high causalities which happened during this period.....i got the firing from my manager and department head on all issues that arised because of server movement and department restructure ..the wounds took a long time to heal...i felt i was accountable and responsible....

Nothing much entertaining during this period except for regular weekend forums we had in hotels and rooftops around chennai and few lengthy engrossing sessions in my flat..slowly my flat started becoming a favourite hangout for all my friends ....