Life after training..

Hm…

U remember me sayin dat training period was just like college?.. well, the period when training ends and u get deployed into a project is like exam time! As nasty as that!

After a grand farewell party at a swanky cool hotel, we were asked to report at our respective locations. I,Gouse and Valli had to go to the office at SA, Neha , Ezra , Raju Renjith and Vivek at EGL, and the rest of the gang happily stayed back at Manyata ( lucky them!!)

8th August was the day I stepped into Subramanya Arcade(SA). I’ll always remember it as a really horrible day. Entered the building at around 9.30. Met 2 other people, Rajitha and Rajesh who also were joining the same day. We were supposed to somebody( no names plz). So I called him up after reaching the office. Guess what response I get.. “uh-hello?” ( a very sleepy voice). I tell my whole Ram kahaani- I’m manasa, came here for…. Blah blah… Sleepy silence …….and then “ what day is it??”.. I was like, what??? “Am I speaking to Mr.xyz?” . He said “umm..yeaaah, but I’m on vacation”.
Me: “now what am I supposed to do??????”. “ go report to Mr.abc… but not this early.. go at 11.30”.

So roamed around till 11 and then entered the office. It was horrible!! SA is the oldest IBM office and looks exactly like dat. No, no cobwebs or layers of dust n all, but still, this place has a kind of gloomy, oldy-oldy air abt it. Dunno, it was that place , or the fact dat I was goin to work here, away from frm all my frnz.. but something inside me broke down. I went crazy and the only thing on my mind was that I have to get out of here!!! Now!!!

So rushed out around 5 or so, and went straight to Manyata( the old office whr we had training) … it was soo good, u kno… like returning Home aftr being lost in a horrible desert! ( I kno.. u’ll think I’m being melodramatic, but then, u didn’t face it, so u wudn’t inderstand!!!) Met Rumz and Chaitu there, told them how horrible that place was… in full, exaggerated detail…. felt a li’l better.

That was my first day at SA. Things turned out to b a lot better after that, but that story’s for the next post. Bbye…