The VISA Dance !
If your were to work for the company that I work for then, you would be expected to hold a valid US visa and be ready to step into some god-forsaken AirIndia flight destined for some god-forsaken place in the US. This is no exaggeration, it is just one of thoes run-of-the-mill things with my company. If you are found basking in the sun without a visa your boss will quickly pull you by the collor and ask you to go through the application process. If you refuse, there will be serious consequences(Joking ! u will be asked to work in the support/quality group, which is like asking you to walk the plank) on the other hand(we have five fingures) if you do apply for a visa and do a sloppy work on preparing the relevant documents you are sure to get a reject. You wouldn't want to get a reject because,a reject potentially means that you have been black listed and your chances of getting a visa(when u really want; don't attribute this to Murphy's Law; this is the Law of Ignorance or Carelessness) next time decreases significantly.
What if you don't apply ? you will be spending the rest of your life with some overly committed quality expert and churning out loads and loads of paper work in order to give the other groups an impression that you are slogging your heart out. You will have to conduct audits, raise NCRs(non conformance reports) and once every month pull up some amazingly peculiar images with few lines twisting turning over each other in between two perpendicular graduated lines.
What next ? you fall prey to the deceitful tactics of your superiors. You convince yourself to take on the challenge, the challenge of preparing visa documents; particularly the PRD(Project Requirment Doc. I guess) as it si refered and the CV. PRD, though it sounds simple is one big pain in every possible wrong place. The folks at INS have all the time in the world to go through a 5 page document with gory details about the project, the objective is to confuse them and make them believe that it's some rocket science stuff the no one else in the world could possibly do. Normally, a sample copy of the PRD is used to create another one, but you are the most unfortunate thing on the face of this earth if you happen to get a sample PRD that talks about a project that is no way related to yours, in which case you will have to do everything from scratch. One of the questions in the PRD, just to give you an idea:
"If there are persons with the same duties as the employee, why isn't that person doing the employee's assignment?"
How would you answer this when you don't know the what ? when ? where ? how ? which ? of the project. Once you manage to compile the PRD after shooting hundreds of emails to various people who've gone through the same blissful experience before, you have to get it reviewed by few experts who are supposedly best in the business. This process takes quite some time for, the PRD will keep going back and forth until the reviewer give up and says "bloody hell, do the review yourself". This is the most interesting part, you cook your resume to match the Project, yeah ! INS folks are fools, they can never smell cooked CVs.
The day to submit your papers, you collect all the paper work and hand it out to the HR\PR. These are few bunch of folks that are always busy, Ramki(Rama*&$@&%^$), the man behind all the visa action is normally burried in a heap of papers, there is more paper on ramaki's desk than the whole of Tidel Park(now, hows is that true ?). I am just wondering how he gets in and out of his work place everyday, his sidekick balaji generally answers the less severe or reasonable severe queries and the important one are redirected to ramki. Ramaki is really a soft spoken down to earth person with the typical "tanglish" accent and normally speaks at supersonic speeds. Right behind Ramki & Co are his highly distractive HR/PR female collegues. Our austere Ramki works amidst all these distractions as if he has renounced all the earthly pleasures. The place near their cubes is almost always filled with activity, with the first timers to the 10 year experienced flocking around ramu and asking him for details.
From here on there is no looking back, you will have to wait until you get to the visa personal interview stage; Meanwhile you will receive horrific and abominable stories of rejects from few rather unfortunate collegues.
Now, that's vitues and perils of working with "TeeSeeUs" for you ! If that's not global ? what is ?
If your were to work for the company that I work for then, you would be expected to hold a valid US visa and be ready to step into some god-forsaken AirIndia flight destined for some god-forsaken place in the US. This is no exaggeration, it is just one of thoes run-of-the-mill things with my company. If you are found basking in the sun without a visa your boss will quickly pull you by the collor and ask you to go through the application process. If you refuse, there will be serious consequences(Joking ! u will be asked to work in the support/quality group, which is like asking you to walk the plank) on the other hand(we have five fingures) if you do apply for a visa and do a sloppy work on preparing the relevant documents you are sure to get a reject. You wouldn't want to get a reject because,a reject potentially means that you have been black listed and your chances of getting a visa(when u really want; don't attribute this to Murphy's Law; this is the Law of Ignorance or Carelessness) next time decreases significantly.
What if you don't apply ? you will be spending the rest of your life with some overly committed quality expert and churning out loads and loads of paper work in order to give the other groups an impression that you are slogging your heart out. You will have to conduct audits, raise NCRs(non conformance reports) and once every month pull up some amazingly peculiar images with few lines twisting turning over each other in between two perpendicular graduated lines.
What next ? you fall prey to the deceitful tactics of your superiors. You convince yourself to take on the challenge, the challenge of preparing visa documents; particularly the PRD(Project Requirment Doc. I guess) as it si refered and the CV. PRD, though it sounds simple is one big pain in every possible wrong place. The folks at INS have all the time in the world to go through a 5 page document with gory details about the project, the objective is to confuse them and make them believe that it's some rocket science stuff the no one else in the world could possibly do. Normally, a sample copy of the PRD is used to create another one, but you are the most unfortunate thing on the face of this earth if you happen to get a sample PRD that talks about a project that is no way related to yours, in which case you will have to do everything from scratch. One of the questions in the PRD, just to give you an idea:
"If there are persons with the same duties as the employee, why isn't that person doing the employee's assignment?"
How would you answer this when you don't know the what ? when ? where ? how ? which ? of the project. Once you manage to compile the PRD after shooting hundreds of emails to various people who've gone through the same blissful experience before, you have to get it reviewed by few experts who are supposedly best in the business. This process takes quite some time for, the PRD will keep going back and forth until the reviewer give up and says "bloody hell, do the review yourself". This is the most interesting part, you cook your resume to match the Project, yeah ! INS folks are fools, they can never smell cooked CVs.
The day to submit your papers, you collect all the paper work and hand it out to the HR\PR. These are few bunch of folks that are always busy, Ramki(Rama*&$@&%^$), the man behind all the visa action is normally burried in a heap of papers, there is more paper on ramaki's desk than the whole of Tidel Park(now, hows is that true ?). I am just wondering how he gets in and out of his work place everyday, his sidekick balaji generally answers the less severe or reasonable severe queries and the important one are redirected to ramki. Ramaki is really a soft spoken down to earth person with the typical "tanglish" accent and normally speaks at supersonic speeds. Right behind Ramki & Co are his highly distractive HR/PR female collegues. Our austere Ramki works amidst all these distractions as if he has renounced all the earthly pleasures. The place near their cubes is almost always filled with activity, with the first timers to the 10 year experienced flocking around ramu and asking him for details.
From here on there is no looking back, you will have to wait until you get to the visa personal interview stage; Meanwhile you will receive horrific and abominable stories of rejects from few rather unfortunate collegues.
Now, that's vitues and perils of working with "TeeSeeUs" for you ! If that's not global ? what is ?
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