Please see my viewpoint inline
-----Original Message-----
From: zahid rahman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 4:14 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi buddy,
1. Thank you for your reply.
2. I have noted the contents of it very carefully. I do not know
if you are aware of this but in teh legal world there is something called
given a false sense of security you admitted" Those who know about this
know that it doesn't mean anything if you have CONCRETE evidence.
3. My background is Real - time safety critical software
and Business Applications. Having worked in safety critical
software I have been taught to do things a little differently
than every body else. I do mostly "proof of concepts" , skeleton
,prototyping therefore I am not the one under commercial pressure but others
find themselves. my skill set include 68K, ADA,
C,C++ ,vb, cobol, esqlc , openroad , ingres , informix , oracle , vms, unix
, nt. It is all commercial experience.
4. I am fully aware of the politicals , hypocracy and discrimination that
goes on in the software Industry and it has become a sorts of part of life.
5. In case you do not my Background I will :-
If you look in the archives you will see that I gave
a link to some one about an example program.
He then contacted me to tell me that he works for wipro.
This was an interesting coincidence if it were a coincidence.
at my previous employment,bytel ltd, the software was migrated by wipro from
Ingres ,ABF on VMS to Forms 4.5 & Oracle database running on unix because
the customer wanted it.
The software was sent to wipro and then received back after a year later.
I was working on a datawarehousing project in the mean time.
When the software came back I was asked to integrate an enhancement on top
of the software. Having done the boredom of coding I then proceeded to do a
unit test. I found that there were all sort of problems. I then decided to
do the thread test which I used to do on the old software when I made a
change so that I haven't made any other impacts. I found to my horror that I
couldn't do the test another words the software is completely unstable. I
pointed this out to my manager that I cannot do the enhancement giving him
the reasons for it and in the reasons the Senior Consultants where at fault
also in that what were they doing in India.
The manager some weeks later informed me that I wasn't going to be
disciplined for not having escalated the problems. The company had been
recently taken over by an American company (CSG ltd). What the manager was
saying was that He wasn't going to blame the White Senior Consultants ,
Wipro and the hundered of programmers and consultants but me. It became
obvious the reason was because I am Pakistani.
////////Ripan
I think the reason why your boss decided to blame you was not because you
are a Pakistani but because you are alone and he can't go against so many
persons. He doesn't have the guts, so he decided to supress you. Even if in
your place someone else was there he might have done the same thing. Its
human nature and its not an issue of being Pakistani. Sometimes it does
effect but that varies from person to person. I mean you can't generalize
this and even port that concept of yours to me :-)
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Any way I started looking for a job. The day I gave my resignation he and I
used to get on well he told I am looking too ever since we had our first
discussion.
After serving four weeks of my notice I left. One week after I started my
new Job They announced redunancied unsurprisingly because the working
software was no longer working because there was no BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE
or motivation to do things Software Engineering Way rather than the cut and
Paste Hacker way.
That company had more than four times the average turn over and now there
where some legal battle going on since the last time I heard.
I know a little about discrimination, Business Knowledge , Integrating
Business tests.
I will tell another story later.
/////////Ripan
Its my pleasure to share your feelings with me. If you consider me as friend
then its great for me. I don't mind having a Pakistani friend. Infact i
would love to because i don't discriminate persons based on caste or color.
For how long you have been working in the IT field and staying at UK?
Regards,
Ripan
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