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WHATS YOUR UAE JOB mr.Shan Subraman from 1978 Mar to 1991 Aug, It will be useful to process my Doctorate title.
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00:00:00I was working, you know, in UAE telecommunication, which is called Emirates telecommunications.
00:00:10It was earlier Cable and Wireless UK, they purchased the UAE citizens, Arab citizens, they purchased the Cable and Wireless
00:00:21and they started owning it.
00:00:23And that's when I joined them. Listen to me also know whenever you have time, you can play this video
00:00:31and your grandchildren also will like to know what Mama's dad was doing and what kind of work.
00:00:39And that time you can tell them to play this and see.
00:00:44It motivates them because if they know their grandfather was working in a very high position, then they are also
00:00:52intended to go higher in the seeking job.
00:00:59Otherwise they will be contented with what they are doing.
00:01:01So with that in mind, also that Loshi also running her own medical institution, Prashti also running her own medical
00:01:12institution.
00:01:13So they also must know that I have been in a very high position in the ATC lab.
00:01:23I went into management, you can see, you will see in a few minutes time, I was central nucleus there,
00:01:31I was well recognized.
00:01:34So updating you, right, with other engineers, I was responsible for providing the network of telecommunication.
00:01:44Now look at this UAE diagram you are seeing here.
00:01:47It is the UAE diagram, the black boundary, and you see a cross line going.
00:01:53I have put brother there.
00:01:55Piriapa was working in that country, Qatar.
00:01:59He was a telecommunication underground cable planning engineer in Doha.
00:02:04That is, underground cables required for telecommunication, he plans and implements.
00:02:11He, wherever it is required, he has to plan.
00:02:15And, in fact, in Columbia, I was doing, in Columbia City, I was doing from Pitta to Mount Slovenia road.
00:02:22You know, from Pitta, Slava Island, Fort, Kalapitia, Bambalapitia, Balavate, Deivala, Ratmalane, Mount Slovenia, all these places.
00:02:35I was doing underground cable planning in Columbus, Sri Lanka.
00:02:44I am trying to show you what is UAE.
00:02:47You can see seven Emirates there.
00:02:49You can see, see there are, these branches when you enlarge it, it comes to, you know, very big pictures.
00:02:57One, Abu Dhabi, then two is Dubai, three is Sharjah, four is Alain, five is Rasul Khymer, six is Fujairah,
00:03:08seven is Roay.
00:03:10So, they divided the United Arab Emirates into seven Emirates, and then the head office was situated in Abu Dhabi.
00:03:22So, for the network, to develop the network, to provide services for the people living in these Emirates, we have
00:03:29to develop the telecommunication network.
00:03:32That was my job with other engineers.
00:03:36So, how did they implement the upper management?
00:03:44How the Etisselat organized its upper management, which is the corporate head office, we are going to see right now.
00:04:01You can see here, board of directors.
00:04:04The company is operated by the board of directors, for the shareholders of the company, and they have an equity
00:04:12committee.
00:04:13The equity committee, these are members of the equity committee, and these are board members, each one is a board
00:04:20member, and you can see, they get the responsibility to the CEO.
00:04:25CEO is called the GM here, the general manager, and the general manager gave it to the engineering part.
00:04:34He gave the engineering part to the corporate manager engineer.
00:04:39Similarly, you get other support services.
00:04:43I am not talking about support services here, because support services are like administration, recruitment, finance, marketing, right?
00:04:53They are, I am not talking about them, I am talking about where I was working.
00:04:57I was working in engineering, therefore, I am talking about manager, corporate manager engineer.
00:05:04So, corporate manager engineer reports the general manager, who is the CEO, right?
00:05:10CEO reports to the executive committee, there are members of the executive committee.
00:05:17And you can see here, the board of directors, the company is operated by the board of directors, for the
00:05:25shareholders of the company, and they have an equity committee.
00:05:31The equity committee, these are members of the equity committee, and these are board members, each one is a board
00:05:38member.
00:05:38And you can see, they get the responsibility to the CEO.
00:05:43CEO is called the GM here, the general manager.
00:05:46And the general manager gave it to engineering part.
00:05:52He gave the engineering part to corporate manager engineer.
00:05:56Similarly, you will get other support services.
00:06:01I am not talking about support services here, because support services are like administration, recruitment, finance, marketing, right?
00:06:11They are, I am not talking about them.
00:06:13I am talking about where I was working.
00:06:15I was working in engineering, therefore, I am talking about manager, corporate manager engineer.
00:06:21So corporate manager engineer reports to the general manager, who is the CEO, right?
00:06:28CEO reports to the executive committee, there are members in the executive committee.
00:06:32The executive committee is responsible to board of directors.
00:06:36You see the board of directors here.
00:06:39One or two board of directors may be here.
00:06:41One or two, not more than that, in the executive committee.
00:06:44And don't think it should be forward.
00:06:47No, it depends on their own decision, how many people.
00:06:50There may be 10 years.
00:06:52There may be 15 years.
00:06:53It depends on the shareholders, big shareholders who put money in millions for this company.
00:07:00So the executive committee fixed a CEO, and the CEO is responsible for the main line is engineering, right?
00:07:12Don't forget, main line is engineering.
00:07:15And support services will be there.
00:07:17I am not showing here any support services like finance, or administration, or recruitment,
00:07:24or legal department, or forecasting department.
00:07:28I am not showing any of them, because I have nothing to do with them.
00:07:32So in the sense, directly, I don't work with them.
00:07:35So you can see corporate manager engineer here, and he has, right?
00:07:43He, he is reporting, he, to him, the branches are reporting.
00:07:48Can you see Abdavi, Dubai, Shahjah, the branches that you show in the diagram, right?
00:07:54So they are reporting here, right?
00:07:57They are reporting, they are reporting to the manager engineer, right?
00:08:04That is corporate manager engineer.
00:08:06Who is reporting?
00:08:07Manager engineer Abdavi branch, manager engineer Dubai branch, manager engineer Shahjah branch,
00:08:14manager engineer Alain, manager engineer Fujairah, manager engineer OAS.
00:08:18So they are branch manager engineers.
00:08:22They report to corporate manager engineer, he is in Abdavi.
00:08:28And there is, in Abdavi also there is a, it is a branch, but it has nothing to do with
00:08:34the corporate manager engineer.
00:08:36He is in the head of it.
00:08:37These are people building totally, far, far away from this Abdavi branch.
00:08:42So Abdavi branch manager, manager engineering, manager engineering, manager engineering, manager engineering, manager engineering, okay?
00:08:49All these people, they report to the corporate manager engineer.
00:08:53Now, if you see, if you ask somebody, where are you working?
00:08:58They will say, Atisala.
00:08:59Where are you working?
00:09:00They don't know the organization tree, where they fit in.
00:09:03The first thing you must know is, for example, Mino should be able to say, where do you fit in
00:09:11here?
00:09:11You are a corporate, corporate director, right?
00:09:16So corporate director means, you will be somewhere in this area.
00:09:22You should be in this area, corporate director.
00:09:24These are the different countries, right?
00:09:28Global corporate, global corporate director or global director, okay?
00:09:33So this is different, this you have to count it as countries.
00:09:38But here I am counting it as branches within the emirate.
00:09:44And I was reporting, can you see here?
00:09:47That is my place.
00:09:49I was in the engineering capital development, right?
00:09:53And I had a special preference, and I was supposed to work directly to him, being here.
00:10:03These people, can you see the other two people?
00:10:06They are working to this person, principal senior engineer.
00:10:10Principal senior engineer is working to principal chief engineer.
00:10:13Principal chief engineer is only reporting to corporate manager engineer.
00:10:17But I was told to report directly to the corporate manager engineer because of my skills and my area was,
00:10:26I mean, little different, okay?
00:10:30With the queries and this and the, because I was grabbing the whole company's picture in my computer, because of
00:10:40my computer skills.
00:10:41And these people, they are, they are kind of scared of me because I am working directly to a CM,
00:10:50a corporate manager engineer and also GM sometimes.
00:10:53That's why I am showing a line here.
00:10:55Sometimes GM calls me.
00:10:57Sometimes I have to go to executive committee meetings as a standby with him, with him.
00:11:03So that's why I am showing here.
00:11:05If executive committee meeting is going on, he will be attending, but I am on standby.
00:11:13I'll tell you why.
00:11:15Same way, corporate manager engineer is going for board of directors meeting along with the GM.
00:11:22Of course, when he is going, GM is going.
00:11:24They both go to executive meeting, they go to board of directors.
00:11:27But CMA calls me, whether this meeting or that meeting, I have to be on standby, because this is the
00:11:37whole engineering capital works program, which expands this company.
00:11:45Assets are being developed through this department.
00:11:51And there are projects of two categories.
00:11:56One carried over projects from previous years, that is called phase project.
00:12:00And yearly project, that year itself, the project will be completed.
00:12:05So board of directors, they assemble to find out how the capital works program is going on, how the engineering
00:12:14capital works program is going on.
00:12:17They want to know the development, how far you have developed.
00:12:23Oh, executive committee will like to know.
00:12:25First, they only like to know.
00:12:27And they appraise the board of directors.
00:12:29There may be some queries to the corporate manager engineer from executive committee, which is in this area, which he
00:12:40will ask me directly.
00:12:43Why is he not asking these people, principal team engineer, principal senior engineer?
00:12:48They are incapable.
00:12:50They are paid well, more than me.
00:12:53They are supposed to, actually he is supposed to answer all the questions he asked.
00:12:58But these white fellows, they simply come there and they don't do the work.
00:13:03Right?
00:13:04That is virtual.
00:13:06This is a virtual pitch.
00:13:08It is not supposed to be like that.
00:13:10But I grabbed the work because I am very, very, very extremely good in my work.
00:13:17In the sense, using computer, I can quickly get anything and everything.
00:13:24In fact, I removed one of these engineers by programming with my computer, the work of this guy and I
00:13:33removed one guy extra was here.
00:13:36I removed him because my computer was able to do that job.
00:13:40So I got a credit on that and they came to know that Sean is able to carry out the
00:13:47whole department work.
00:13:49Therefore, they called me directly for queries.
00:13:52Sometimes he writes, he sends it to him in the paper, but he writes, Sean, he'll write on the paper,
00:13:59Sean, can you look into this?
00:14:00So he comes to me.
00:14:02It comes like this.
00:14:04Still.
00:14:05But they all say, Sean, you have to answer.
00:14:09So I have to answer it through the proper denial.
00:14:12They simply send it.
00:14:13It goes there.
00:14:14Sometime I have to go directly like this to his room or his room.
00:14:19Right?
00:14:20So anyway, so my job is engineering capital works or engineering capital development.
00:14:28Engineering, how engineering network is developing.
00:14:32We are responsible for it.
00:14:34Let's see how further down.
00:14:37Let us go and see how it's further down going.
00:14:41I can see you.
00:14:43So you don't need to know all the branches.
00:14:46If you know one branch, you will come to know the rest of it.
00:14:48Now here what they do is, in the head of this, imagine like this.
00:14:53If I put it in medical format, you will be able to understand.
00:14:56Say he is for the head.
00:14:58He is for the abdomen.
00:15:00He is for the appendages.
00:15:02He is for some nervous system.
00:15:06He is for something.
00:15:07So same way in the branch also they have, in this format, in the branch also they have
00:15:15divided.
00:15:17Right?
00:15:18Right?
00:15:19And then in that respective area, say for example, in the branches, in these branches, in these,
00:15:29okay, in these branches, right, in his area, if anyone is having problem here, in any branch,
00:15:45they will come to him.
00:15:48The branch engineer will have to come to him.
00:15:52If it is in his area, any branch engineer will come to him.
00:15:56Similarly, if it is in his area, any branch engineer will have to come to that particular
00:16:02specialized.
00:16:03So these are specialized people.
00:16:05Can you see, he is specialized in switching.
00:16:07He is, right?
00:16:09What happened?
00:16:12He, the first switching, he is in customer services.
00:16:20The other fellow is in data services.
00:16:24Right?
00:16:28He is in cable transmission.
00:16:30He is in wireless.
00:16:31So, in those respective areas, any branch engineer, branch chief engineer, we will have
00:16:38to come to them to discuss.
00:16:41Right?
00:16:42So in the branch, branch engineer is like a manager engineer here.
00:16:47He is the manager engineer for the branch, but we call him chief engineer.
00:16:51But above him will be a branch manager.
00:16:53I didn't show you here.
00:16:55Right?
00:16:56See, actually it is manager engineer.
00:17:00The manager engineer, through the chief engineer will go through the manager engineer,
00:17:06and then the manager engineer will go here and ask him.
00:17:10Say cable, any transmission problem, chief engineer transmission only has to talk to him.
00:17:17But he can't go directly like this.
00:17:19He will have to go to the manager engineer.
00:17:21The manager engineer will go to the transmission engineer.
00:17:26Right?
00:17:28Then, see wireless, any problem in wireless.
00:17:32So, wireless chief engineer will go to the manager engineer of the branch.
00:17:36The manager engineer will go to the wireless transmission, and he will speak to the corporate
00:17:43manager engineer engineer, and solve the problem.
00:17:45And if he can't solve, manager engineer will take it to the general manager, and general
00:17:50manager will give solution down.
00:17:52And it goes like this, and then it goes here, and then it goes here.
00:17:57Originally, if you see, the problem was initiated somewhere down here.
00:18:03The problem might have been initiated somewhere down here.
00:18:08It goes up the tree.
00:18:10Say, for example, this guy, or this guy, assisted engineer four.
00:18:17He might have started the problem.
00:18:19He passed it to the division engineer.
00:18:21He passed it to the senior engineer.
00:18:23He passed it to the chief engineer.
00:18:25He passed it to the manager engineer.
00:18:27He passed it to the manager engineer.
00:18:28He passed it like that and goes there.
00:18:29Right?
00:18:30Now, if you ask somebody, where are you working?
00:18:34I am an engineer in Etisala.
00:18:37Where is he working?
00:18:39See?
00:18:40He will say, I am working in Etisala.
00:18:43Where is he working?
00:18:45This is also engineer.
00:18:46Can you see?
00:18:47But it is the fourth grade.
00:18:50It is called assistant engineer four.
00:18:53Assistant engineer three.
00:18:55Assistant engineer two.
00:18:56So, there are four assistant engineers,
00:18:58under divisional engineer, division engineer.
00:19:03Right?
00:19:04So, this division engineer,
00:19:07then division engineer is working to senior engineer.
00:19:10The senior engineer is working to chief engineer.
00:19:13So, when marriage comes,
00:19:15you guys don't know whether this engineer is the maplai,
00:19:19or is it this engineer is the maplai,
00:19:22or this is the engineer maplai,
00:19:24or this maplai.
00:19:25So, when you pass out to the university,
00:19:27usually you guys go here.
00:19:31When you pass out to the university,
00:19:33you may be somewhere here.
00:19:34Right?
00:19:36And so, that means,
00:19:37this is called span of control.
00:19:40The engineer,
00:19:42the divisional engineer,
00:19:43divisional engineer,
00:19:43division one engineer,
00:19:45has span of control of four.
00:19:48That is, he is controlling four assistant engineers.
00:19:52Okay?
00:19:52That is called span of control.
00:19:54How many people he can control is called span.
00:19:57Here, four.
00:20:00Every company has its own definition.
00:20:02They may have three.
00:20:03They may have six.
00:20:04It depends on the type of work,
00:20:08and company,
00:20:10company protocol.
00:20:12So, here,
00:20:13you see,
00:20:14these,
00:20:15they are also called engineer.
00:20:16When it comes to marriage,
00:20:17they say,
00:20:17I am an engineer.
00:20:18You are a doctor.
00:20:19He is an engineer.
00:20:20You are a doctor.
00:20:21He called into this,
00:20:23maybe.
00:20:24But you may compare with this fellow,
00:20:26and say,
00:20:26oh, he is like me.
00:20:29So, you have to find out,
00:20:30when he,
00:20:31you have to find out the organization tree,
00:20:33when it comes to engineering.
00:20:34Engineering is so complex,
00:20:36that people can cheat you.
00:20:38I am an engineer.
00:20:40That's it.
00:20:41Everybody is an engineer.
00:20:42See?
00:20:43Everybody is an engineer.
00:20:44All these are engineers.
00:20:45This is also an engineer.
00:20:46This is also an engineer.
00:20:47This is also an engineer.
00:20:49This is also an engineer.
00:20:49This is also an engineer.
00:20:50And if you go up,
00:20:51he is also an engineer.
00:20:54Who?
00:20:56See?
00:20:56He is also an engineer.
00:20:58He is the top most fellow in engineering.
00:21:02Because he is corporate manager engineer.
00:21:05Now see,
00:21:06that corporate manager engineer is superior to,
00:21:11see,
00:21:12that's why corporate manager engineer is superior to,
00:21:15this manager engineer.
00:21:18Right?
00:21:20Now,
00:21:21I am here,
00:21:22I query this fellow.
00:21:24I send memos to him.
00:21:26I send memos to him.
00:21:27Can you see how many memos I wrote?
00:21:29I wrote 15,600 memos I have written.
00:21:36I wrote 15,600.
00:21:41This is an average.
00:21:42Maybe more than that.
00:21:43Sometimes 30,000.
00:21:44But I am giving you an average.
00:21:47Because I just put an average of how many memos a day.
00:21:51Now I have written 3,000 reports.
00:21:53I wrote, I wrote reports to the general manager.
00:21:58I submitted to the military engineering to tell what is happening in branches, the projects.
00:22:07All the branches are coming here.
00:22:10All these branches, you know, all these branches projects are looked after me, looked after by me and the people
00:22:18here.
00:22:18Here, principal team engineer, principal senior engineer and myself along with other colleagues.
00:22:28Now, you see, I know what is happening in each branch.
00:22:33I know where the project is in its development, which stage it is.
00:22:40Each one of them I know.
00:22:42There are about 1,000 projects.
00:22:44Roughly 950 projects will be there.
00:22:48150 projects for all these branches.
00:22:51About 300 to 200 will be carried over projects of the past year.
00:22:56And the current year it may be 300 projects or something.
00:23:00300 or more than that.
00:23:02400 projects maybe.
00:23:03So each one will have some parts.
00:23:06Each one 80, 80, 80, 80.
00:23:08I get 560 projects, new projects.
00:23:11You know, 80 projects from one branch will give me 8 times 7, 560 new projects.
00:23:21Then past projects, they may be phase projects.
00:23:26So all together in the project bank, you get about 1,000 projects.
00:23:29950 to 1,000 projects.
00:23:31It will cost some billion dollars, right, total.
00:23:35Now, so you understand now.
00:23:38This is only, I am talking about engineers.
00:23:42Now there will be branch manager.
00:23:43You say I am the Etisalat manager.
00:23:46No, you are the manager for this branch.
00:23:48You are the manager for this branch.
00:23:50You are the manager for this branch.
00:23:51You are the manager for this branch.
00:23:52You are the manager for this branch.
00:23:53You are the manager for this branch.
00:23:54You are the manager for this branch.
00:23:55He can say I am the general manager for Etisalat.
00:23:58Top most manager position.
00:24:02Right?
00:24:02Top most manager position.
00:24:05And he is the top most engineering position.
00:24:08All the branch engineers, whoever are below, they are supposed to be under that manager.
00:24:17You see, they are supposed to be under that manager.
00:24:21Right?
00:24:23He is manager engineering.
00:24:25See?
00:24:26Under him.
00:24:26All the engineers are under him.
00:24:30There can be only seven managers, you know, branch managers.
00:24:34So, branch managers are under here.
00:24:38Branch managers will have to come to the corporate manager engineer for engineering issues.
00:24:44He has to come.
00:24:46Right?
00:24:47Similarly, in each branch, you don't think a branch is finished with manager engineer.
00:24:51Support services are there.
00:24:52You will get the administration.
00:24:54You will get the personal department.
00:24:56You will get, what do you call, legal department.
00:25:02They will have all the departments.
00:25:06The same department will be repeated here as support services under the GM.
00:25:11One line.
00:25:12Say, here you get personal department, admin department, four head of staff.
00:25:18Four head of staff.
00:25:20These are head of staff.
00:25:21Right?
00:25:22So, personal department, admin department and recruitment department will be there.
00:25:26And legal department.
00:25:28Contracts department will be there mainly.
00:25:31Very important.
00:25:32Contracts department for floating tenders and selecting people, you know.
00:25:37Right?
00:25:37So, what happened?
00:25:39These are previous ones.
00:25:41Okay.
00:25:42These are previous ones.
00:25:43Okay.
00:25:43So, you are seeing here only the manager engineer, but you are not seeing the branch manager.
00:25:53The branch manager is above him.
00:25:56And the branch manager will report to the GM.
00:25:59For engineering purpose, you will go to him.
00:26:02Then there will be admin manager.
00:26:04There will be recruitment manager.
00:26:05There will be work manager.
00:26:11Yeah.
00:26:13Yeah.
00:26:14Support services.
00:26:15They are called finance manager.
00:26:17There will be a finance manager.
00:26:18Branch finance manager.
00:26:20Branch finance manager.
00:26:21Branch finance manager.
00:26:21Here.
00:26:22Here you will get finance manager for at his level.
00:26:26At his level.
00:26:28But he has to, not at his level, he has to report to the general manager.
00:26:32Finance manager has to report to him.
00:26:34I deal with finance manager.
00:26:36Can you see how small I am here?
00:26:38Right.
00:26:39Under these two people.
00:26:40But they send me to the finance manager.
00:26:45Usually finance manager won't be available.
00:26:50He will send deputy finance manager to discuss with me on projects.
00:26:58Project problems and various projects related subjects to discuss.
00:27:06They send me only because I have been there from 1978 and I know these people came in between
00:27:12and all that.
00:27:13From 1978 to 91 I was there.
00:27:16So I was like a nuclear.
00:27:18Of the, I think all these people they knew.
00:27:24You know, by name.
00:27:26Sean, Min, all these top level people in branches.
00:27:30Because their projects are coming to me.
00:27:32See, all these top level engineers.
00:27:35They all know me very well.
00:27:37Sean is a tough guy.
00:27:38Because I scrutinize their project work.
00:27:42Right.
00:27:45I am an electrical engineer, electronic engineer, radio engineer, telecom engineer, computer engineer.
00:27:50And, yeah, telecom engineer as well.
00:27:56So, you know, I have various engineering disciplines.
00:27:58So I can easily understand most of the engineering disciplines.
00:28:03Right.
00:28:08So, you know, these people may be specialized in electrical, electrical, but they don't
00:28:13know in radio and electronics.
00:28:16Maybe.
00:28:17So, that is why I am, I was trying to win the race.
00:28:22Right.
00:28:22When I left, some of these people were sent home.
00:28:25You know, they came to know, I was running the whole show.
00:28:27When I left the company, I was told that these two people sacked immediately.
00:28:34Because they were not able to run the show.
00:28:36I am not boasting here.
00:28:38How important is to work when you are in the top level?
00:28:45Right.
00:28:46So, this was the position I was.
00:28:49You can see how I was working.
00:28:51When these meetings were run and this fellow goes through that meeting, I am standby.
00:28:59Standby for what?
00:29:00All the thousand projects.
00:29:03What is going on?
00:29:04Why this project is not done?
00:29:06Why it is held up?
00:29:07How far you have gone?
00:29:08All these queries will come from these people or these people.
00:29:12What is the percentage?
00:29:13He immediately say, okay, one minute I will go to the office, pull out the paper and come.
00:29:17He will come out and ask, Hey, Shaan, tell me what is going on here?
00:29:23I will give off the head of everything.
00:29:25I had everything in my head.
00:29:28It was the beauty.
00:29:29I don't know.
00:29:30I was blessed.
00:29:31Right.
00:29:32So, this.
00:29:33So, now you know where your daddy was working.
00:29:38And I wonder whether I was able to give you enough information here.
00:29:45Right.
00:29:46I am going to show you how the branch operates.
00:29:49Right.
00:29:50So, hereafter, remember, when people say I am an engineer, don't accept it.
00:29:57You have to ask them with the organization free.
00:30:00Give me the organization free.
00:30:01Can you see your sister, Subhatra, where is she working?
00:30:07She is an engineer.
00:30:09Just passed out of, what do you call, Montreal, what is that?
00:30:14University, famous university.
00:30:17She, she will be working here only.
00:30:19Nobody will give this.
00:30:21No.
00:30:21No way.
00:30:23You cannot get these positions immediately.
00:30:25No.
00:30:27Like me, you must have that, I am an IEEE member.
00:30:32Member of the Institution of Electronic and Electrical Engineers USA.
00:30:37That is a big professional certification.
00:30:40If she has it, she can go up here.
00:30:43And here or here.
00:30:46It depends on.
00:30:47You can't simply go from, as soon as you pass out the university, you can never go here.
00:30:52You can never go here.
00:30:53You can never go here.
00:30:54Out of the university.
00:30:56Out of the university, you will be here.
00:30:58Alright.
00:30:59Once you pass out of the university, then you, you work for some time, you will be promoted
00:31:03divisional engineer.
00:31:05Then you become senior engineer.
00:31:07Then you become chief engineer.
00:31:10Then you become manager engineer.
00:31:12By that time, you will be 80 years old, 70 years old.
00:31:15You know, by the time you come here.
00:31:17So here, you are, you are around, below 30s.
00:31:22Above 30, you will be here.
00:31:24In 40s, you will be here.
00:31:27In 50s, you will be here.
00:31:2960s, you will be here.
00:31:3170 only, you can go here.
00:31:33Unless you do very well in 60 and you jump there.
00:31:36Right?
00:31:37I have put the age also, I think, age of the man who was there.
00:31:42Can you see the age?
00:31:42I have put 55.
00:31:45Clever people will be there, 45 to 65.
00:31:49I have put the age there.
00:31:49You can see the age I have put.
00:31:51Right?
00:31:53You can see here.
00:31:54Okay, you know.
00:31:57So, when you move with people, every company is like this.
00:32:01Almost all the companies are like this.
00:32:03You go to Bell Canada.
00:32:05You go to Rogers.
00:32:06Even banks are like this.
00:32:08You go to bank.
00:32:10This, see, the bank manager, bank GM.
00:32:14He is the GM.
00:32:15But for the bank, there will be an engineering manager.
00:32:19So, under the engineering manager, you have to go down and see.
00:32:22Right?
00:32:23You ask somebody, you say, I am an engineer here.
00:32:25He may be working here.
00:32:27Right?
00:32:28He may be picking wires here.
00:32:30Can you see here?
00:32:32Sorry.
00:32:34See?
00:32:35He may be around here.
00:32:37He is an engineer.
00:32:37He is an engineer.
00:32:39He is an engineer.
00:32:39That is the bank.
00:32:41This is the Scotia bank general manager.
00:32:44This is the bank manager.
00:32:46You know, Scotia bank, Steels Avenue.
00:32:48This is John Mills.
00:32:52This is Ajax.
00:32:54Something like that.
00:32:54So, this is the general manager.
00:32:57Right?
00:32:58Then you have to go.
00:33:00So, whenever somebody says the position, always look for the organization tree, the position.
00:33:09Don't accept it straight.
00:33:12Right?
00:33:12Now, you will be, I told you here, can you see a principle tree when you are switching customer
00:33:20services, data services, cable transmission.
00:33:23So, this is called different discipline.
00:33:26Switching engineering is one discipline.
00:33:29Customer services engineering means the telephones.
00:33:32That are used at fax machines, telephone used in homes.
00:33:39Right?
00:33:39So, they are called customer services.
00:33:42You know, the data, forms and all that.
00:33:45Then data services is, you know.
00:33:48Data services say, well Canada is giving data services.
00:33:51So, that is Wi-Fi.
00:33:54So, it is coming here.
00:33:56So, he is the engineer, the biggest engineer.
00:33:59Right?
00:34:00If you go down.
00:34:01If you have somebody coming to your house, he will say, I am an engineer.
00:34:05Right?
00:34:06He is a technician.
00:34:07I will show you in a few minutes time, how, how you call it a technician.
00:34:13But he is, he is the biggest man.
00:34:16Now, he, can you see in the branch, he has a corresponding person in the branch, data services.
00:34:23Can you see here in the branch?
00:34:26Right?
00:34:26I have only shown Abu Dhabi branch, not Dubai, Sharjah, LA, no.
00:34:30I am only showing the Abu Dhabi branch here.
00:34:33All red colors are Abu Dhabi branch.
00:34:35Can you see?
00:34:36Data services.
00:34:37He is, data services in the head office.
00:34:41Every company has head office, if he has so many branches.
00:34:45At least three branches or two branches, there should be a head office.
00:34:50This is how the head office is.
00:34:52Head office is close to the security committee and board of directors.
00:34:57The CEO also, there only.
00:35:00So, in the branches, you want to see how a branch operates.
00:35:06So, this is, you are saying in the head office.
00:35:10Don't forget, these engineers are all in the head office.
00:35:16I mean, in the branch, this Abu Dhabi branch.
00:35:18Here I am showing Abu Dhabi branch.
00:35:21Okay?
00:35:22Here are the engineers.
00:35:24And under the engineer, I want to show you principal.
00:35:26And you see, I have only expanded one principal chief engineer going like this.
00:35:32And under him, can you see senior engineer?
00:35:35Principal senior engineer.
00:35:36See, he is chief.
00:35:37He, let me, let me explain that.
00:35:40Here.
00:35:41He is, he is chief principal, but chief engineer.
00:35:47His principal, below chief engineer is senior engineer.
00:35:52Below senior engineer, you get, see, principal senior engineer, then senior engineer.
00:35:56So, senior engineer is, so span of control is three to four always.
00:36:02So, it depends on the company and the workload.
00:36:06But, it depends on the workload.
00:36:07You have to share between three people.
00:36:09The workload of this man, right?
00:36:11He is principal senior engineer.
00:36:13See, principal, principal.
00:36:15Chief, senior.
00:36:17So, principal chief engineer, principal senior engineer.
00:36:28He has one, two, three, four principal senior engineers.
00:36:32Under him.
00:36:33Then, one principal senior engineer has senior engineers.
00:36:37Now, one senior engineer, he has three engineers.
00:36:42Eight group, also I have shown here.
00:36:44So, when it comes to marriage, you can understand how you find out,
00:36:50where they are working.
00:36:51Now, see, he is engineer.
00:36:52Under engineer, you will get technicians.
00:36:55As listening, helping.
00:36:57You know, he will have three technicians.
00:36:59He will have three technicians.
00:37:00Because he is engineer.
00:37:01He will be helped by three technicians.
00:37:04Technician will have, again, senior technicians, junior technicians.
00:37:09So, it goes on like that.
00:37:10But, in the head office, you will get like that.
00:37:12In the branch, you will get it.
00:37:14Right?
00:37:15So, let us see.
00:37:19We will close this.
00:37:21I am going to go to the branch.
00:37:27Can you see?
00:37:29Branch.
00:37:30See, all this time, you were seeing the full figure.
00:37:35Now, you came to the branch.
00:37:38As XYZ, it is a lot only.
00:37:40XYZ is a lot, for example.
00:37:43But, Telecom Corporation, branch manager, is the biggest man.
00:37:46So, he says, I am the branch manager of Bell Canada.
00:37:50So, he is not the big man.
00:37:52Now, you know who is the big man.
00:37:53You have seen under the board of directors, executive committee.
00:37:57Under that only, you get the general manager or CEO.
00:38:01So, he is the biggest man for that, for this company.
00:38:04So, he is only for the branch.
00:38:07Right?
00:38:08You can apply this for the bank also.
00:38:10You know, for a bank also, same thing.
00:38:11Branch manager, bank.
00:38:13Right?
00:38:14See, branch manager has support services.
00:38:17What is his main job?
00:38:18Engineering.
00:38:20See, finance, if it is bank, finance is engineering.
00:38:23And, support services is engineering for bank.
00:38:29Right?
00:38:30Support services is engineering.
00:38:32And, administration, recruitment, all these are support services.
00:38:36Support services is for the main thing to run, whose support is required.
00:38:42Right?
00:38:43To look after the main job, who are the people who are assisting you.
00:38:53They are called support services.
00:38:54They are called support services.
00:38:55Administration, personal department.
00:38:59Then, administration, personal department.
00:39:03Okay.
00:39:04Okay.
00:39:05I made a mistake.
00:39:08Let me make this and come.
00:39:10Generally, I can talk with you.
00:39:12Okay.
00:39:14Okay.
00:39:15See, support services.
00:39:17So, branch manager, here also I am showing support services.
00:39:20Here also I am support services.
00:39:21Okay.
00:39:21This is the main, what is his main job, branch manager engineering.
00:39:26So, he has a branch manager engineer.
00:39:30For the branch, he is the manager in engineering.
00:39:34So, he gave the name, branch manager engineer.
00:39:39Now, in order for the branch to operate, you need administration.
00:39:44You need to recruit people.
00:39:46You need to look after the personal problems of the staff.
00:39:51So, and you have to administer them.
00:39:54Some problem comes, they don't know how to, they don't know the rules.
00:39:58They don't know the rules.
00:39:59The rules admin only knows.
00:40:00Right.
00:40:02So, this is personal issues.
00:40:04This is recruitment issues.
00:40:06Administration issues.
00:40:07So, support services.
00:40:08So, there will be an admin manager, recruitment manager, personal manager.
00:40:12They are all managers.
00:40:14They try to say to the public that they are like this.
00:40:18Like this.
00:40:20They will say, I am the manager there to Sarath.
00:40:23Oh, I am the Belkanda manager.
00:40:26Right.
00:40:26Well, Belkanda, branch manager is the big man for that branch.
00:40:30But, these people will pretend as they are like him.
00:40:34So, careful.
00:40:35So, now, contracts, they will, for the branch, they will be contracts.
00:40:40So, contracts manager will be there.
00:40:41Legal, legal manager will be there.
00:40:44Legal issues, low related issues, they will handle.
00:40:49And, there is finance manager definitely.
00:40:52Because, you have to have the finance manager.
00:40:55Money is important.
00:40:56Everything is money.
00:40:57They want to make money.
00:40:58So, finance manager is there.
00:41:00Then, they divide that into financial accounting as well as management accounting.
00:41:05Management accountant's job is to show how these company branches are doing money versus,
00:41:12you know, output versus money spent on them.
00:41:16That is his job.
00:41:19Management accountant's job is to show, okay, we spent, say, we spent on a department,
00:41:25tables department, we spent this much of money.
00:41:28What is the output from them?
00:41:30Is the output good?
00:41:32He has to say.
00:41:33Manager accountant.
00:41:35Financial accountant will have to show to the public how the company is doing.
00:41:40Progress of the company.
00:41:42How the company is flourishing.
00:41:44He has to show to the public.
00:41:47That is financial accountant.
00:41:49How this branch is doing.
00:41:51How the productivity of the branch is told by financial accountant to the public.
00:41:58Don't forget that.
00:42:00Not to the finance manager only.
00:42:02He is giving to the finance manager.
00:42:04Finance manager will declare it to the head of his.
00:42:06The head of his is declared the Abdabi branch is doing this much.
00:42:13Montreal branch is doing this much.
00:42:15So Montreal branch financial accountant will report to the finance manager of Montreal.
00:42:21The Montreal branch manager will put it to the public.
00:42:26But this man is only within the company.
00:42:29He is to the public.
00:42:30So it is finance.
00:42:32I finished that, okay.
00:42:33So you have to find out where.
00:42:36I am working as an accountant in.
00:42:39What is that?
00:42:40Let's say Bell Canada.
00:42:42Accountant where?
00:42:42Here?
00:42:43Here?
00:42:44Here?
00:42:45Right?
00:42:46So you have to ask.
00:42:47This will have a big tree.
00:42:49If you go breaking this, it will have a big tree.
00:42:52Where is he working?
00:42:53Here.
00:42:54Right?
00:42:55Where is he working?
00:42:56Here.
00:42:56Are you in.
00:42:57If somebody says accounts.
00:43:00You have to divide it into financial accounts.
00:43:02Management accounts.
00:43:04Find out which accounts he is working.
00:43:07Right?
00:43:08Then, coming to the branch manager, engineer.
00:43:11See, he is manager engineer.
00:43:13Now everything is engineer here.
00:43:15Engineering.
00:43:16Switching is one discipline of engineering.
00:43:19Transmission is another discipline of engineering.
00:43:21Cable is another discipline.
00:43:23Power engineering.
00:43:24See a power plant.
00:43:25You need to have.
00:43:27You are getting the state supply.
00:43:29You know, from the government or from the government you are getting the power.
00:43:33Then, if the power fails for the hospital.
00:43:37Power fails, what do you do?
00:43:38Standby generator.
00:43:40Standby generator needs fuel.
00:43:42The fuel has to be overhead or underground.
00:43:45You dig the ground and keep the fuel tank.
00:43:48Or you keep it on the building top fuel tank.
00:43:51So, which fuel tank?
00:43:52All these are projects for us, you know.
00:43:56So, in the power department you have to find out.
00:43:59Power engineering.
00:44:01You have to still find out who are the people working under.
00:44:04See, I have taken all the switching and shown the branches.
00:44:07I couldn't write downward, so I put it sideways.
00:44:11Right?
00:44:12Now, here.
00:44:14So, transmission you have to have like this.
00:44:17From like this, you have to have transmission.
00:44:20Same thing for cables.
00:44:21Same thing for force.
00:44:22Air-condition.
00:44:23Air-condition.
00:44:24What is air-condition?
00:44:24No.
00:44:24When you have equipment, you have to remove the heat from the equipment.
00:44:30When the equipment produces heat, they produce in thermal units.
00:44:33British thermal units.
00:44:34So, that you have to calculate the heat produced by the equipment.
00:44:39Then you have to find out the air-condition's output.
00:44:42Are they matching to remove the heat?
00:44:45So, these are thermal projects.
00:44:47That is the air-condition engineer's job.
00:44:50Not my job.
00:44:51But when they will put projects, I should be able to understand.
00:44:56See, subs-equipment, various equipments under telecom.
00:45:00They are coming under that.
00:45:02Subscriber is rented.
00:45:04You rent them or you allow them to use it.
00:45:07When problem comes, you are repairing and you charge them.
00:45:11So, this is switching is the exchange.
00:45:13So, inside the exchange, right?
00:45:16So, you get a chief engineer for that switching.
00:45:20And chief engineer has three senior engineers.
00:45:23One senior engineer has three engineers.
00:45:26Band 1, we will say.
00:45:29Band 1, we will say.
00:45:29And it depends on, I don't need to tell you band 1, 2 and all that.
00:45:32That is the company principle.
00:45:35They have their own way.
00:45:36But you understand this as engineers.
00:45:38So, one chief engineer for switching.
00:45:42You don't have for switching two engineers.
00:45:45You have one chief engineer.
00:45:47Under him, three senior engineers.
00:45:49They will be dividing this switching technology divided into three parts.
00:45:54And for each part, they will be a senior engineer.
00:45:59And then again, senior engineer will divide that into three areas.
00:46:04Give it to engineers.
00:46:06And engineer will divide that into three parts.
00:46:09Giving it to three junior engineers.
00:46:13And junior engineer will give it to chief technician.
00:46:16Three teams.
00:46:16And one chief technician will have three senior technicians.
00:46:21One senior technician will have four or five technicians.
00:46:25One technician will have assistant technician.
00:46:28It is called band 6.
00:46:30And then, under that, you will have laborers.
00:46:33One assistant technician will have laborers.
00:46:35A team will be formed like, you know, from there to here a team in one discipline.
00:46:42Another discipline.
00:46:43Another discipline.
00:46:44Another discipline.
00:46:44So, that is how the company works.
00:46:47I have given you a picture of how a telecommunication company works in a brief format I have given.
00:46:54And where I was working also I have given.
00:46:57I should have the picture of all these things otherwise I can't work there.
00:47:00Right?
00:47:01That is why they put me there.
00:47:04This guy knows all the things, you know.
00:47:07How a branch operates while reporting to head office.
00:47:11Can you see?
00:47:11So, this is one branch I am showing you.
00:47:14And you saw, like this, you saw seven branches earlier.
00:47:20Right?
00:47:22So, this is how, you know, you remember board of directors.
00:47:25I am showing only head office.
00:47:28If you say, you are working in head office or if somebody says, he is working in head office
00:47:32and it has about ten branches, the company head office is this.
00:47:38Okay, ten branches.
00:47:39We finished just now.
00:47:40One branch I taught you.
00:47:41Now, here you are having board of directors.
00:47:45They are the biggest people of the company because they spend the money in billions or millions
00:47:50and they put and they started the company.
00:47:53So, they are the shareholders, big shareholders of the company.
00:47:56And some of them are in executive committee.
00:48:01The executive committee means they get that executed.
00:48:04Whatever is wanted is executed through this committee.
00:48:07So, they declare what is to be done to the CEO or GM.
00:48:11In Asian countries, they call GM here, they call CEO.
00:48:17Now, the CEO is giving it to the corporate manager engineering, the engineering part of it.
00:48:25So, like this, you can have a finance here.
00:48:27You can have admin there, personal department, legal department, contract department you can
00:48:34have.
00:48:34You know, I am not showing them.
00:48:36I am dealing with engineering only here.
00:48:39You may be employed in admin department here.
00:48:43So, the admin have branches like this.
00:48:45You will get for admin.
00:48:46You will get for personnel.
00:48:48You will get for recruitment.
00:48:50But there will be a boss for them like this.
00:48:55There will be a boss for them.
00:48:56See, corporate manager engineer is the boss here.
00:48:59There will be corporate finance manager.
00:49:02Corporate admin manager.
00:49:04Corporate admin manager, personal manager.
00:49:07Corporate contracts manager.
00:49:10Right?
00:49:11So, all of them report here.
00:49:14So, you have to have branch here.
00:49:16You know, like that.
00:49:17Right?
00:49:18So, this will be only for engineering.
00:49:22Engineering is the main department.
00:49:27Others are support services.
00:49:29They are giving the support services to engineering to function.
00:49:33Right?
00:49:34Remember that.
00:49:35Okay.
00:49:36So, it is like your hands and legs are helping for the body to move around.
00:49:40And body to eat, body to do this thing.
00:49:43Something like that.
00:49:44Fingers, toes.
00:49:45Why are they there?
00:49:46Like that only.
00:49:47Admin department, personal department, contracts department, recruitment department.
00:49:53All these are for helping the main engineering department to function.
00:49:58So, the main engineering department I am concentrating because I am an engineer.
00:50:01I work here.
00:50:02So, if people say I am an engineer working, you should be able to find out using this understanding.
00:50:09Now that you understand how a tree works, company tree, now you should be able to understand.
00:50:17So, don't get fooled by the people.
00:50:19Okay?
00:50:20Now, corporate manager engineer, now he has, this is in the head office.
00:50:26In the head office, he has the head office switching.
00:50:29There will be similarly in the branch, there will be a manager.
00:50:33No, the branch manager engineer will have a switching chief engineer.
00:50:37He is manager engineer for the branch.
00:50:39Manager engineer must know all the disciplines.
00:50:43Because he is a manager.
00:50:46All the engineering disciplines, a manager engineer is supposed to know.
00:50:52He must know about switching, he must know about transmitting, he must know about data circuit,
00:50:55he must know about cable, he must know about subscriber apparatus.
00:50:59Then only he can be a manager.
00:51:02Even in McDonnells or Tim Houghton, manager means he knows everything, all the areas.
00:51:09So, here manager engineer means all the areas of engineering, the manager must know.
00:51:14So, then only manager engineer.
00:51:16So, what are the areas, switching, transmission, etc, etc, etc.
00:51:20So, on those areas, you will have chief engineer.
00:51:24That chief engineer will report to manager engineer in branch.
00:51:28But here, in head office, they have a different format.
00:51:32Head office is very superior to the, because they are all, they are looking, they are checking
00:51:37the seven branches.
00:51:40Therefore, their capacity is very high.
00:51:43Therefore, they gave the name, see, under the transmission, for example, similarly switching,
00:51:48similarly cable.
00:51:49See, under the transmission, they are giving a name, head office, but they don't usually
00:51:55use that, principal chief engineer.
00:51:57Can you see the name change?
00:51:59In the branch, you didn't use the principal.
00:52:02So, for the branch chief engineer, you put principal, he becomes head office.
00:52:07And branch chief engineer will have principal senior engineer, three of them.
00:52:13I only show one here.
00:52:16Then, one principal senior engineer will have, remove the senior, remove the principal, senior
00:52:24engineer.
00:52:25See, earlier, you had principal chief engineer.
00:52:29Along with the principal chief engineer, here principal, then you have principal senior
00:52:33engineer.
00:52:34He may have another senior engineer, sometimes.
00:52:37Principal senior engineer, he may have, but it depends on the workload.
00:52:43So, he is principal chief engineer, says, can you resolve this problem?
00:52:49Give it to the principal senior engineer.
00:52:51Principal senior engineer, give it to the senior engineer.
00:52:55There are so many senior engineers, depending on the discipline.
00:52:58Again, discipline-wise, they are desired.
00:53:00Don't think it is the three people to look after means, it doesn't mean that the three
00:53:06engineers put the hand and work.
00:53:07No.
00:53:08So, one is dealing with the chest, other one is dealing with the abdomen.
00:53:12Other one is dealing with the head.
00:53:14Think it that way in engineering.
00:53:17Right?
00:53:17So, you can see here, senior engineer, under this fellow, he is dealing with one area,
00:53:26he is dealing with another area, he is dealing with another area of engineering.
00:53:31So, they are all senior engineers.
00:53:34Now, again, senior engineer will have, under him, engineer.
00:53:40Right?
00:53:41So, I am in the senior engineer level.
00:53:45Okay?
00:53:46I am in the senior engineer level, head office, senior engineer level only I worked.
00:53:51Now, you can see, although, although I was doing the work of a senior engineer, although
00:54:02I was engineer, I was working at the senior engineer level, here.
00:54:07Right?
00:54:08So, when you ask somebody, where are you working?
00:54:10I am an engineer engineer.
00:54:13No, that is insufficient.
00:54:15You can be manager engineer, you can be chief engineer, you can be principal, chief engineer,
00:54:20principal, senior engineer, senior engineer, engineer, which engineer you are in?
00:54:27See, I am showing here, a branch engineer brings his problem to the principal chief engineer.
00:54:33Branch engineer is the biggest man for the branch.
00:54:36All engineering problems come to the branch engineer.
00:54:39He brings it to the, depending on the discipline, he come to the, say, if it is in switching,
00:54:46he will go here.
00:54:48This branch engineer will go to switching here.
00:54:51He will go to transmission here.
00:54:53Cableman, he will go there.
00:54:55He gives the problem to this fellow to solve it.
00:54:58Then, that fellow will throw the paper to him.
00:55:00He will throw down.
00:55:02He will throw down.
00:55:02He will throw down.
00:55:03Depending on, finally these fellows are solving the problem.
00:55:05People at the bottom.
00:55:07That is engineers.
00:55:10See, how complex.
00:55:12Right?
00:55:15So, I am supposed to be updated with this because I am a project guy.
00:55:19I must be, I must be thorough with who is doing which work.
00:55:24Because I have to query them.
00:55:25If the project is delayed, I know, I must know who was responsible for it.
00:55:30I must send the memorandum to them.
00:55:32Right?
00:55:33I have shown you how many memos I wrote.
00:55:35Right?
00:55:42See, you can see me here.
00:55:45I am in the head of this.
00:55:47Oh, I am here.
00:55:49You see, I am with the big people.
00:55:52You can see, here they are the biggest people.
00:55:55Then the next biggest people.
00:56:01He is the engineering biggest man for the whole seven branches.
00:56:06I am dealing with him.
00:56:08Can you see that?
00:56:09It is a credit for me.
00:56:10He must know all the branches in fingertip.
00:56:15I know what is that, all the capital works I know on fingertip.
00:56:22About thousand projects there.
00:56:24I am, see, Sean reporting here.
00:56:30I am supposed to report, I am supposed to report like this.
00:56:34Right?
00:56:35See, I am supposed to report to him, report to him and here.
00:56:39And all the branches, they send me all the information for the projects.
00:56:47These people, and these people, and these people, they know every year they plan.
00:56:58What is the target?
00:57:01He is a telecommunication company.
00:57:03Right?
00:57:03So they will say, we want to increase overall total number of phone lines.
00:57:10It is currently 120, say, sorry, it is 400,000 phone lines.
00:57:30So that is for seven emirates.
00:57:33You show the seven emirates, one, two, three.
00:57:35Now the board of directors will come and say, this year you have to increase it to, they
00:57:42will say 650,000.
00:57:47That is because last year it was 400.
00:57:51They know, the board of directors, they know what is going on in the country and they will
00:57:57come and say, increase it to 650.
00:58:01Okay?
00:58:02If it is difficult, then they discuss and they come to a conclusion, no, no, no, no.
00:58:06It is too much, I don't think we can develop that way.
00:58:11It is a board meeting.
00:58:12I am talking about board meeting.
00:58:14Okay?
00:58:16So in the board meeting, they will decide.
00:58:19In the board meeting, they will decide.
00:58:22Discussion, they will come to a conclusion.
00:58:24Okay, 550,000.
00:58:26What is the increase?
00:58:28So in this meeting, who will be there?
00:58:31The forecast department will be there.
00:58:33I didn't show you the forecast department.
00:58:34There is another department, like finance department, forecast.
00:58:37It is a very important department in this company or any company.
00:58:42The forecast department, forecast the business for the next year.
00:58:47Right?
00:58:48So here the forecast, 150K.
00:58:53150K increase, my God.
00:58:57150K phone lines, that means 150,000 new phone lines are to be sold.
00:59:03That is the target fixed.
00:59:05So the general manager and the manager engineering, they work hard to divide this to the branches,
00:59:14seven branches.
00:59:15They go and they give it to the forecasting department in the head office.
00:59:21Forecasting department in the head office will have forecasting department in branches.
00:59:26The forecasting department in the branches must find out how much of the 150,000 expected increase, right?
00:59:39Of the 150,000 expected increase, how much each branch can, right?
00:59:46You see, we said there are seven branches, right?
00:59:51How much each branch can contribute, right?
00:59:56How much each branch can increase, by how much?
01:00:05Now see, copy, please.
01:00:11See, seven branches.
01:00:13So seven branches means, we have to give, they are focused.
01:00:18For the, I am talking about, this meeting is going on in October, September, October, November, December.
01:00:26it will be going on board meeting. In the board meeting they decide, they give the target.
01:00:34So once they give the target, actually they give it by, every year they give by June.
01:00:48By June they give and July, August, September, you go to find out how much each branch can contribute.
01:00:59150,000. So now this branch is saying, let us say this branch is saying, they are coming
01:01:07and saying, okay, we can increase it by 75,000. The biggest branch will give the biggest one.
01:01:23So this is 75k. This branch is saying 75k. So 75,000 they promise. How did they know 75,000?
01:01:34This is the trick. Actually, this is the way they work. Not a trick. It is not a trick.
01:01:41I am going to tell you how they work. How do they focus? So that particular, say this is
01:01:48the diagram of the, say it is the branch. This branch said, I am going to give you 75,000
01:01:56increase in the phone lines. So your business is going to increase by 75,000. Now this message
01:02:03will go to the recruiting manager, go to the transmission engineer, switching engineer, because
01:02:11they have to buy the equipment for that, to supply this service. All the existing equipment
01:02:18should be able to provide service for this. Will it, will that capacity meet the requirement
01:02:24of the 75,000 new lines? So there are so many things. I was involved in this. You know, I
01:02:31must know all these things. You know, I have to be with them. Anyway, in the meantime, let
01:02:37me explain. So if this circle is, if this circle is the, say, the branch, they will go and
01:02:48lease with the municipality. You know what is municipality? Yeah. The country has this government,
01:02:58right? The government municipality. They say, you know, you have the diagram of focusing,
01:03:03the forecast department, the forecast department will have all the diagram of their area. They
01:03:10will go to the government forecasting groups. They will find out how many new roads are coming,
01:03:18how many new, I mean, spaces are coming, you know, to be used. It may be a desert. They are
01:03:27converting into usable area. If it is Canada, they will say, okay, we are going to, remember,
01:03:35what do you call, Walmart area was earlier garden. It was full of forest. They developed,
01:03:43right? So they might have asked at that time, focusing department would have asked, the focusing
01:03:51department, Bell Canada or Rogers would have gone and asked them in this forest like area,
01:03:56what are the, what are the things coming up? Municipality will have it because the Walmart
01:04:03constructors would have applied for permission. So municipality will have all the details of
01:04:09new development. So the Bell Canada, Rogers and whatever companies, communication companies,
01:04:17when they are planning, they will go and liars with municipality and municipality of that area
01:04:27and find out how many buildings are coming, how many houses are coming, how many, each building,
01:04:33how many condos, how many houses, you know, every detail will be taken by the forecast department
01:04:41and forecast department will say, we see the Walmart area around that area, we are seeing 75,000 new
01:04:51lines expected. So like that each area they can forecast. Once they forecast, that adds to the total
01:05:03number of lines as target given to you and you work towards that. Now when the number of lines increases,
01:05:11you have to increase the switches, you have to increase the transmit equipment, you have to increase the
01:05:16radio link capacity, wireless link capacity, underground cable capacity, all these bring new, new, new, new
01:05:26projects, expansion projects. That is the project I was dealing with. It all come to me. It all, all of
01:05:35them
01:05:35come to me from various branches, right? This is an example I gave you, this diagram in the yellow area.
01:05:45So like that,
01:05:46you will have so many areas, you know, the yellow area I just showed you, see, like that, so many
01:05:56areas. And we have to know
01:06:00whether the switches, the switches are having the capacity or we have to expand the switches, replace the
01:06:07switches, replacement, upgrading, not only the switches. Between switches you need the links, radio link, cable link,
01:06:18even air conditioning, even air conditioning has to be upgraded because the equipment will give heat.
01:06:23Right? And what they do is they have also, you know, new places, if it is new place, they have
01:06:29to have buildings.
01:06:31See, the buildings, what we, what they normally, even if you go to now, Tim Burton or McDonough are also
01:06:40the same thing,
01:06:40they are following the same thing which I am going to say now. See, they, they will say, they, they
01:06:45have different
01:06:46types of buildings, okay? Space. So, this is type 1 building, type 2 building, type 3 building, type 4 building.
01:06:54Depending on the space availability and all that, oh, the bigger equipment coming, type 1, next bigger, one type 2,
01:07:02next bigger, one type 3, if it is a small one, type 4. So, you can give the name, the
01:07:08civil engineer,
01:07:09that is civil department, engineering, civil engineering department in Bell, Canada or Rogers or whatever,
01:07:15they will, they will decide which type of building is good for the new site. Now, when you acquire a
01:07:23new site,
01:07:23you have to do leveling. So, this is a project for leveling. So, the, I am talking about civil projects.
01:07:29See, so, different projects will come into the project bank that I have to maintain. So, in the project bank,
01:07:38you will see, if it, if it is a new area, say this yellow area, say this yellow area is
01:07:43a newly acquired area,
01:07:48for that area, you have to do, remove the forest, leveling. So, that is a project. Leveling, fencing, then you
01:08:01have to do the fencing, leveling, then build a building, which type of building. So, all, every work is a
01:08:08project. It comes to me. And I have to have a project bank and monitor it and
01:08:14follow up with the, what do you call, diagram of work progress. I should be able to tell which project
01:08:25is in which status.
01:08:28Critical path analysis, they have to submit to me and I have the critical path analysis for each project. I
01:08:35know when is it ready for service.
01:08:39They give a temporary critical path analysis. It will change by time, but we got to know. So, the project
01:08:44engineers, there will be a project engineers propose for each work.
01:08:49That they, uh, give it as a project. Say, a project will be divided into ten project, uh, project, which
01:08:57is called capital works program. When it comes to me, it comes as capital works program.
01:09:01And then it is divided into projects. The capital works program will be divided into projects. Because, say, when you
01:09:09want to build a house, you don't say building a house is a project itself. No, it is one project,
01:09:18but it has so many projects under, under it.
01:09:21So, each one is a project. So, each one is a sub project. Each sub project is called capital works
01:09:26program. It produces, it generates, it generates assets to the company. When you spend the capital, it becomes an asset.
01:09:35How important is it for, you know, the capital works program. If it Isis? If it is for, for, you
01:09:37know, an administrator, if it is for, you know, administration purposes, you are buying some table, chair and computers and,
01:09:45uh, you know, then it is an administrative budget.
01:09:48So, there are various budget. Engineering capital budget, administrative budget, operating budget, then manpower budget. Four budgets. So, all of
01:09:56the budgets of this, uh, uh, company were, all of them were and they were, were,
01:10:03are going through me. I have to scrutinize and find faults if there are and give it to
01:10:09the manager engineer, corporate manager engineer and corporate manager engineer will deal with
01:10:18the branches. Branches will submit their four budgets. All the four budgets, see all the
01:10:30branches, will make engineering capital works program. That is the projects for development
01:10:37which I told you now, based on the forecast, say each one has the forecast how many lines
01:10:43they have to develop, increase it from 2024, for 2024, by how many lines they have to increase,
01:10:55by how many lines they have to increase, by how many lines they have to increase, by
01:10:59how many lines they have to increase, they have to increase, they have to increase.
01:11:02For that many lines to be increased, they need assets, assets to do that function, to do that
01:11:16increase. It may be an extension project. The existing transmission equipment is to be extended.
01:11:21or new transmission equipment should be bought, right, or existing power plant, the standby
01:11:29generator is to be upgraded, so this is called upgrading project, so all the projects will
01:11:37come, all the branches will come, I have to study, I have to see that no project is missed,
01:11:45if a project is missed, I will be sacked, I will have to go home.
01:11:51If the branches are missing it, I have to go home, because I didn't check it, I didn't
01:11:56scrutinize it, that's my job, I'm an audit, engineering projects audit, I have to audit
01:12:05there, see, when you are providing a new exchange in a new place, I have to see that the transmission
01:12:13link is given, it may be overhead, it may be underground, I have to see air conditioning
01:12:20here is given, both sides, for the equipment increase, British thermal unit calculated and
01:12:28accordingly the heat is absorbed by the air condition, air condition units are to be implanted
01:12:35and purchased and purchased and all these are projects. Starving associated with that starving,
01:12:42then they will send a manpower budget, they will send administration budget, table and
01:12:46chair and computer, all these budgets will come to me and we will submit to the General Manager
01:12:55Office, General Manager study, General Manager Office study with the Corporate Manager Engineer,
01:13:04then pass it to the Executive Committee to approve the budgets, all the budgets, admin budget,
01:13:11capital budget, operating budget, not operating budget, admin budget, capital budget, admin engineering
01:13:19budget and then capital engineering budget, right, then manpower budget, all these three budgets
01:13:27will be approved for the next year, around November, December it will be approved for the next year.
01:13:39So, so this is, this was my job during the 13 years I was in Abu Dhabi, right, I was
01:13:53shining,
01:13:53I was a shining star there. Anyway, it's not enough for me to, I mean, I don't know, I did
01:14:01my best
01:14:02to explain, I don't know whether you understood or not, right, okay, bye-bye, bye-bye.
01:14:32So, thank you.
01:14:41You