One year with my dream company - session one

I have been receiving mails from many of my fellow ASEs (well known as JSEs) on our one year completion. The voyage has been full of ebbs and tides. Due to my excessive extra curricular activities at BITS, pilani I ended up in this company . I still remember the incident when I told my parents that I was placed in this company, an uncle of me , who knows a little and behaves as if he is only next to Einstein exclaimed in wonder ‘I never heard of this company..Why did not you join Infosys or Satyam?’

I still remember this company's campaign at BITS. They had set up a stall at Oasis (cultural fest at BITS,pilani) which had a prototype of a part of golf course and attracted the students who pass by to try out their golf-ing skills. One of my juniors asked me innocently or it may seem foolishly....’ Bro..Does this company produce golf sticks??’. But that may be due to the advertisements in which they show more golf than anything else. It was a great effort for me to explain him about This company as I too knew very little though I was placed in the company a month back. I remembered all that I have prepared on This company to explain him what the company is all about.

We received our offer letters and T-Shirts on the big stage of BITS auditorium (we call it Audi). It was 2 A.M. in the morning and the crowd (Including me) was eagerly and rather madly waiting for the ‘Parikrama’ show and as the main sponsor for Oasis, this company was given the stage for half an hour. I remember when I went on to the stage as my name was called (In a confused way as always). The audi was roaring with thunderous claps and I felt as if I won the genral elections for the pilani constituency. One of my friend, who had too much of drinks at the Dhaba was already there in a drowsy state. I thought he would fall at once on the lady who is distributing the offer letters and told him in an undertone ‘Abey sale…aaram se’ (Buddy…stay cool !!!).That was first and last experience for me on the BITS stage, but worth a million pounds.

And after that I went to hibernation for six months, the period in which I spent mostly sleeping and playing baddy in the evenings. I also started reading novels during this time and I remember it took two months to complete my first novel ‘The Davinci Code’ and the movie was also released by then.

We were eagerly waiting for our day at This company and becoming a tiger. Our Induction sessions kicked off on 02-Aug in which I felt it was the food that was better than anything else. The sessions were so boring as they kept chanting Do this, Don’t do that, Don’t do this, some high funda words like effectiveness, efficiency, input, output, self motivation, core values of which I got zilch out of it. And each time they stated the phrase ‘You are no more students..You are professionals now’. And one of my friends told me yawning ‘Abe maloom hain yaar..Isliye to yahan aaya hoon’ (Yeah man..I know …that is why Iam here).

They were nice sleeping sessions after the lunch as almost all of the class were drowsing. Even the fun games by HR cannot stimulate us to pay attention to the session. But we were regular in clapping after the end of the each session thanking the presenter for s(h)aving our day . It was not the laziness ..It was actually the inertia that made us to do so. Then I understood the meaning of Newton’s 1st law of motion in a way applicable to us…

‘An object at rest tends to stay at rest though acted upon by an unbalanced force.’

‘We are not self motivated and cannot be motivated by external forces too’

…..Wait for the post lunch session...

Cheers,
--DJ