fear : is 1 word : which no senior would daresay..

fear : is 1 word : which no senior would daresay..
they feared my career mommy
: and the principal engineer ..big scary technical..precise

the fear : was of asking questions..
coz sharmajee : a walking man of 'insecurities'..

they did not want to appear : 'genius' ..
in front of the west coast team..

so they ll assume : based on windows 95 era of 'coding'..
the assumptions : multiplies in efforts..
coz they ll just create elaborate : edge case scenarios..

coz in 'india' : that counted as 'experience/expertise'..

not the cpu on board : how many cores and how much ram..

cos : effort of link list coding, padding structs...htons, ntohs...
was so : original..

and then there was a gsm mugger : pretending to be a software architect..
who coded in 'excellent' C with excellent 'followers'..

their 'fear' : drove all excess efforts..
questions : which they should ve asked..
but would rather : not : coz they ll appear 'genius' to customer..

daily 9pm call : just another pile on : to waste customers time with 'seniority'
and 'updates'.

further thoughts...

imagine being on 24 hour direct flight from delhi -> dulles -> san diego..
30 hours : easy..
then a fire in hotel.. at 12 pm..
and finally sleeping at 8 am..

and sharmajee : insisting going to office by 10 am : to make your 1st impression..
with great 'safe' 'english' company of a mute and insecure ..
great 1st day at office : courtesy senior managers' 'vision'.

or a flight being booked on diwali night : 2 AM of it..
4 hours : u leave 'home' to reach airport : to be safe on traffic..
on nights : where people dont work..

that was my indi manager doing my managing : of flights..
to land me on thurday in dubai : to report for work at 10 am ..
on the day : which is friday for khalifas.

they were all useless.