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Brief review of the book

For those that are interested in reading this book, take this book as a summer lecture, at entertainment book, this is not the PMBOK ® or one of those business manuals, this is only for fun…or not?

Título: No he venido aquí a hacer amigos, Desventuras de un consultor IT

Autor: Jaime Miranda

Editorial: Lengua de Trapo

For all you, this is my own brief and personal opinion.

Is it Fiction o reality? I don’t know, I’ve never tried to contact the author, this book explains the day to day activities of an IT consultant and all those bad moments that he suffered because of the non-ethical behavior of their manager which whom he will have during the history a very special relationship.

This book is not only for entertainment, also you can read and find in it all this “worst practices” with unfortunately more that one we had found in our professional life.

Not only this book, but also some of my bad work experiences made me as I’m now, an IT project manager worried not only about my day to day tasks also about ethical, volunteer and mentoring in order to avoid that in IT world unethical managers, unethical leads continuing destroying the dreams and the careers of newly or futures great minds and project managers. 

First of all, this is not mine, this is not my phrase, my rule or my belief…I heard once, someone told me…it has a history, and here I will share with you.

More than ten years ago, I arrived at my first remunerated job in IT. Big company, big office, big team.

Do you remember your first day in an office? Year after year, project after project, the situation is the same, the recruiter manager or de project manager walks around the office and you are presented to a lot of people.

Your new team, your new family, all of those people that from this day you will share your knowledge your happiness, your stress, more than eight hours day with same people, sometimes will be easy, sometimes a challenge.

One of those first days, after connecting the computer, check the connections, check the first emails, lunchtime arrived. I turned around, I’ve checked that nobody was in their desks, and nobody asked me to go with them to the lunch room.

I’ve checked again, and I see a guy, I stopped few minutes to think, yes! It’s him, he is in my team. I walked until his desk, smiled and said, “Did you have lunch? Or do you want to join me?” his answer was…I didn’t come here to make friends.

I was shocked, without words, this guy was so rude.

Two or three years after, walking around a library I saw this book:

• Yo no he venido aquí para hacer amigos, desventuras de un consultor IT – Jaime Miranda

There is no English version of this book, but I tried to literally translate the title:

• I didn’t come here to make friends, memories of an IT consultant (or something like this)

I bought it, I read it, and I laugh too much.

Was this rude guy the author of the book? No, he wasn’t.

Maybe the rude guy read the book before me, maybe the rude guy continue working in the same company, maybe the rude guy ten years ago didn’t have knowledge about the importance of networking in 2016.