Friday, September 10, 2004
Tech Fest at work...
Well when you start working nothing much exciting happens during weekdays. You pretty much go to work and are then so pooped at the end of the day that you really couldn't care to do anymore. Anyways I like to write this blog as often as I can so I am going to try...
Well yesterday we had what is called the Tech Fest 2004 at work. Well it's GE's way of showing off to itself what it is up to! It's not open to the public but they spend over 20 lakhs setting it up. Now you do the math. No one important is seeing what is happening but the budget is more than that for building a new auditorium on campus!
Anyways I had to be a part of this Tech Fest. I was what you would call a 'recruited volunteer'. Basically I was just standing around at work talking to someone about something and this guy comes and tells me that I should come and give ideas about some things. Next thing you know I am in a conference room helping organize the event and being assigned tasks!
Anyways, it wasn't so bad 'volunteering'. I got to be in charge of the wheel of fortune that turned out to be a lot of fun.
Now due to legal reasons I can't really tell you what all was there but I can tell you this. The Tech Fest very soon lost any hint of 'Tech'. Seemed like a Fest where every stall was competing with each other to get the maximum crowds to play its games! My lab, called AMT - Advanced Mechanical Technologies was running three games. The games were so popular that we had only 2 people explaining the posters and 4 handling the games!
I got some time off volunteering and walked around and found pretty much the same scene everywhere else. Everyone was concentrating on games rather than their work. Of course there were the odd stalls that had some real neat stuff. But you know what... I think GE intends that this Tech Fest be more of Fest rather than Tech. Why else would they let Finance and worse still, HR set up a stall???
So what do you get for volunteering? Well I got a GE t-shirt with my lab name AMT written on it. Was pretty proud of it as it was the first GE t-shirt I got. I went out in it and the first thing people point out is that my name is spelt wrong! And then I have to explain that it's not my name but the name of my lab. After a couple of people I just gave up. That's the last time I am going to wear that t-shirt.
Well yesterday we had what is called the Tech Fest 2004 at work. Well it's GE's way of showing off to itself what it is up to! It's not open to the public but they spend over 20 lakhs setting it up. Now you do the math. No one important is seeing what is happening but the budget is more than that for building a new auditorium on campus!
Anyways I had to be a part of this Tech Fest. I was what you would call a 'recruited volunteer'. Basically I was just standing around at work talking to someone about something and this guy comes and tells me that I should come and give ideas about some things. Next thing you know I am in a conference room helping organize the event and being assigned tasks!
Anyways, it wasn't so bad 'volunteering'. I got to be in charge of the wheel of fortune that turned out to be a lot of fun.
Now due to legal reasons I can't really tell you what all was there but I can tell you this. The Tech Fest very soon lost any hint of 'Tech'. Seemed like a Fest where every stall was competing with each other to get the maximum crowds to play its games! My lab, called AMT - Advanced Mechanical Technologies was running three games. The games were so popular that we had only 2 people explaining the posters and 4 handling the games!
I got some time off volunteering and walked around and found pretty much the same scene everywhere else. Everyone was concentrating on games rather than their work. Of course there were the odd stalls that had some real neat stuff. But you know what... I think GE intends that this Tech Fest be more of Fest rather than Tech. Why else would they let Finance and worse still, HR set up a stall???
So what do you get for volunteering? Well I got a GE t-shirt with my lab name AMT written on it. Was pretty proud of it as it was the first GE t-shirt I got. I went out in it and the first thing people point out is that my name is spelt wrong! And then I have to explain that it's not my name but the name of my lab. After a couple of people I just gave up. That's the last time I am going to wear that t-shirt.
