This is the trip of lifetime
The trip to Japan
I visited Japan for a week long trip. My school friend commented that I was too casual in packing things to Japan. The trip was a big eye opener in my life. I really loved the developed country and it was a learning as soon as I landed there.
All I did in the week was to observe people and work. If I need to communicate something I had my boss to interpret for me :)
The office was looking too old but the 'proving ground' was rocking. It was with banking and cars can fly at 200 km/h or more. It is the best testing place I have been.
Well the important learning was the about the Job. How the same work which is done at Japan is done (oops messed up) at India .
The office was very silent though it was packed with people , unlike my office which will be like a fish market sometimes.
Each and everybody is alloted the definete job, planned work and work is made simple. The best part is there is definite procedure in which each and every job has to be done and is done the same way. "Each time every time and flawless". And yes to cap it all, they are technically very very strong.
Do you know how I was working?
A bit of job 6 people were doing at Japan.
And hence every thing, is not perfect, incomplete and in hurry.
We also do planning but it never worked.
We also have procedures in written but its clause keeps changing with respect to time, boss and whether the person is willing to do.
Well that was the first time I felt very bad, about my working at India.
The next was when my senior returned from Japan after learning their testing methods. He tried very hard to teach people to work on specific way, but nothing worked.
That is the same case with all my seniors, some give a push for 3 months some 6 months but later everyone changes to Indian style.
In fact they were frustrated after learning the Japanese systems and may be this is the reason why even after 25 years of collaboration things do not change here. Each department fighting with each other!!!!
I think my Japan trip is my life changer. (As I started to fight with my boss or anyone who just makes testing standard in air and on the spot)
Seriously the Japs are great, I have a special respect (Indians are too below their standards) for their way of life. (simple and loving!!!!). They are patient and the repetition in testing or experimenting with things is on very higher scale which a few at India also follow.
To put it in one line, "Japs are like monkeys and Indians are donkeys" A famous quote in our working area. he he :)
The passion for driving
This kid is one of my best junior who has "invested" all his money for his passion for cars.
Actually what makes him special is, he does not know driving but he has too much of passion to race. Good luck junior enjoy every pleasure of driving.
Professional ??? - who wants to be one
3 years into an automobile sector will definitely make u the so called PROFESSIONAL.
I remember my friend when he left for higher studies said, " the only best thing I learnt in my job is 100 different ways to screw people".
Well, that was not the learning I wanted to have or I never aimed at it.
The only time I think I was serious in learning the job was the first year. I loved it. The next year I was handed over the best team, 3 people to work with me. They are the fastest at work in my department, very young too(with better technical skills and exposure than me). So all I need to do was to tell them the work. The project we are associated is a milestone for Maruti." We design and we test" the model that we are going to launch 3 years later. Hence the board is very strict.The test reports that I used to make in a hour ended after 3 days. The work I do is small but heavy documentation and observation remarks were expected, which I have never done nor my 'fast' team.
We were slowed downed in every report that we sent. And if any query sent by Japanese officials, we are screwed. Just to answer his query, I would have to spend 2 days. But when I recieved so many queries (imagine questions like what is the ambient pressure in test track?), at one point of time I stopped answering them.
But working with this team, I would say is the biggest lesson. All my life be it school or college or my first 2 years at Maruti, I never aimed for perfection. The 100 percent.
Now whether I like it or not, I should be perfect.
I thought becoming professional is simple. (Talk less. Smile less. Ask as many why and how questions). But the biggest factor is like I was taught in college is the'common sense' or Leadership.
I think that is for the individual to think and develop. And I think I will make it in this year.
This is my target this year and I know I will die to make it.
(and one more target, changing the minds of few assholes who still think we are a government organisation)
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