Disclaimer - All the events mentioned in this post are related to my life. There is nothing fictious about the below occurings.
Well, sometimes in your life, you end up encountering the repercussions of the wrong doings of your past life. One such thing which I did wrong was having a altercation with manager at work. This was in the year 2006 and it was nothing serious. It was just disagreeing on a particular point of view.
Somewhere on a blog post, I read that politics in software means going by personal view overriding the technical view. Something of this sorts had happened in the year 2006. I vaguely remember it, since its almost 5 years.
That was point #1.
And at the time of quitting the company, I had an altercation with an administrative guy with related to transport. The company cab used to go close to my house, but I was made to walk 1.5 kms because the company refused to stop the vehicle at a point close to my house. (how ridiculous). I made this whole thing big and then it just took off as the prime reason for quitting the company.
This was point #2.
And now 4 years quitting that company, I have moved on with life. Infact the manager has also moved to a different company altogether. One of my friend now works in the same company as him and infact when I was about to come back from Singapore, he told me about the opening in his company for a developer.
I thought this was a golden opportunity to work with some like minded people. And by the way I had not a single clue that this manager had these opinions about me. Well infact the altercation I had was with a person who used to report to this particular manager ( who currently works in the company I am trying to apply ).
But look at my bad luck, when I sent my resume to my friend, he immediately forwarded it to this particular person after which I did not get a response at all. My friend kept on asking me how is your bonding with this particular manager, have you done something wrong? Why aren't you being approached ? Finally it took a month for me to come to the conclusion that, it was because of the altercation and the transport related thing because of which I am not getting a call for the opening in that company.
Now in that one month, I had moved on to join a new organization, but now I got a call from the same company for a different project altogether a different manager, and this particular manager was not even aware that I would be attending the interview. The technical rounds happened and I cleared them, but the next round is still pending, and would be taken by this manager. Its already 2 weeks since I attended the technical rounds, so I guess, I have been ditched (alas will update this post if I get a call ).
And let me tell you about the second place where it has had a serious repercussion. When I was jobless for a month or so during July 2011, I had gone to one of my ex employer for interview again for a job. This company was the same as the one where I had the altercation. I cleared the interview and even filled the application form with major details. But look at my bad luck, I was ditched. Then I realized why. In one of the places in the application I had mentioned that I was the ex- employee of the organization and had given out my previous employee id.
According to my guess, what really has happened is that, when I quit the company in 2008, this manager with whom I had an altercation and this guy who works for a company where currently I am interviewing, would have written something rudely about me whether I could be hired again or not. So as a result, I was ditched.
Honestly I have no intentions of working for my ex employer (considering how much third grade interview process happened over there) nor crossing roads with this manager. But I wanted to work with my friend and thats it.
Let me tell you about the interview process that happened at my ex-employer. I had one round of telephonic interview with some bare basic questions. When I went to the face to face interview they asked me the same set of questions. I wondered why, when I asked them, they told me, we are trying to confirm whether you are the person who took the telephonic interview or was it someone else. (Jee what an assumption).
Cheers,
