Harsha Hulageri » Kansas City http://harshah.com/blog A personal blog of Harsha Hulageri Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:10:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc US of ‘A’ http://harshah.com/blog/2009/06/22/us-of-the-a/ http://harshah.com/blog/2009/06/22/us-of-the-a/#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:23:03 +0000 harsha http://harshahulageri.com/blog/?p=169 Life has taken a little twist. It has  been a week since I have landed here.  Yes, I am in Uncle Sam’s land. It took almost 27 hours to travel 15000 kms. I had to change two flights one at Paris and other at New york.  Both are very huge airports. I have to travel through train and buses to change terminals at both airports. Although I had traveled through air before, but hadn’t got opportunity to travel on daytime. It was nice to see the land and ocean well above the clouds :)

Well talking about the city where I stay.. it is calm.. infact very very calm.. full of greenery and very well organized. People are seen hardly on roads. In bangalore, if you throw a stone it either hits dog or SE. But here, if you throw a stone, it either hits a car or another car. Public transport is pathetic. Life becomes tough without car. One must have car. Kansas City has spread across two states Missouri and Kansas. There is one state line road that divides these two. I work in Kansas City of Missouri state and I stay in Kansas City of Kansas.

Talking about the cars, one can get to drive the cars that one had never ever imagined of. People drive cars crazily. Traffic rules are always followed. Things cannot go wrong on roads and if they go.. don’t ask.

Everything is organized to the core.

Regarding the work, I am the 1oth infoscion who joined here for the client of size 500. Office environment is very good and office culture is very different from the one that we have in India. Loads of formalities, exchange of greeting s and smiles. Good thing about these people is they treat everyone with the same respect be it a CEO or a housekeeping guy. Everyone does their job and they do it properly. Working hours will be 8 hours usually from 8 to 4 or 9 to 5. People never stay in office after office hours unless required urgently. But one mentionable thing is .. if they work for 8 hours , they do only work and nothing else. Lunch break will be usually of half an hour. Most of times, people have  their lunch at their desk.  Like us, they too wait for Friday to come. There won’t be any important meetings during Fridays. People start leaving office from 3 pm. Everyone will be in weekend mood on Friday.

I am here on long term assignment. Hope, I soon get adjust with this place.

My tea-mies, Prazy and Amar, presented this before I come here ( I am still missing our daily tea sessions  :( )

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I believe that everything happens for a reason and I hope this my new phase of life would make me better than what I am now. Onsite has  definitely a lot to learn from work perspective as well as life perspective.

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