Having a Bad Lead or Boss

I don't know how many of you have ever faced this situation. But I faced it at the very beginning of my career when i just entered into the software industry. That was the time when lot of product companies were here in NCR region. And each of them were having one office in United States.

I joined River Run Software as a fresher and got involved in a project where every team member was having more than five year experience at that time. except one guy who was my two year senior. In that project i got a bad boss, who was not having much experience with handling freshers i guess. So he was treating me like normal experience guy and was behaving like same.

Soon I got fed up with him and feeling bored in the project. Apart from that he usually kept a constant vigilance on me and push me to stay late and finish the job by that day itself. In fact he usually used to push the whole team to do same. That gave me really bad experience and i changed myself as defensive rather than creative and innovative person.

So after working with that guy around one and half year, I joined the Induslogic. Here i got a best lead i would get ever. He knows how to handle the fresher as well as some normal experienced guy. I gave my best during the whole duration i worked with him around two years. That is the person i would like to work always in my future too.

Then I got the chance to go to client side at Clarus System. Here also my luck was good. And i got a really good VP. She was also having lot of experience how to work with experience guys. i also enjoyed working with her for about six months.

Now bad time starts for me, may be to teach me few lesson required in life. I got a bad boss in the Clarus itself as new VP has joined the company after sacking old one. This guy was also tries to keep pushing the guy till the guy does not oppose. I am not that kind of guy who likes to be pushed always. For me, all that matters is the result. So Bosses should only care about that. They should not care about the timing invested in the office by a sub-ordinate. So that was a bad experience of about three months.

Here after joining Induslogic India office, I joined in a new project. Here also the same issue. I guess my bad luck was continued. But this time i was prepared how to tackle this. And i opposed the kind of keep pushing behaviour. In result Lead felt bad. I discussed the matter with him and explained him my way of work. Up to some extent we both agreed not to do this again.

Now i am working with different lead and it seems to me, he is good person as i always look for. Basically he is a logical person who understand the things first and then forward it to us how to execute. I like this kind of behaviour. And i am in hope that things would surely improve in future.