Corporate life-Part 1- the beginning!

Well, it has taken perhaps 4 months to understand wat exactly corporate means.. i dont intend to say i know now but yes i am getting to know. The drill- as soon as the college kids (yes i prefer to say it that way, i was one too :D) get placed into some company they get a confirmation letter and a date of joining, following which they get a basic training for the first few months (technical yes!) inclusive of few soft skills. During the training life isnt much different than how it used to be in college, since there would be people of our own kind there attending the training with you and there will be periodic tests to see if you are making any use of the time the trainer spends. And finally the training comes to an end and after which you actually come into the office atmosphere. Prior to which the training room part of the office was the only thing we experienced. we get to know our superiors and the organizational structure of the company .. yeah this is where all the words start getting bigger and the days start getting longer. People start speaking in the corporate lingo which is all bizarre for the new recruit and they are trying to blend in. Once assigned to a department we get introduced to the team who look up from their workstation and nod at you with a 'oh you are the new person' look (you must have noticed the usage of workstation rather than the word 'computer' / 'system' .. that s how it works around here..) and the most intriguing thing of all this is that- people dont talk! they jus dont. The whole workplace is silent with jus the omnipresent sound of the keys being tapped upon the keyboard (which really gets on ones nerves) and tring tring of the desk phones. Work place etiquette , now that is totally something else which requires another whole post to explain about! the same things such as cold wars and fights with contemporaries will happen at a more larger scale at the office in a concealed manner. You better not get stuck in it else you have a really hard time getting out of it and going on with the day-to-day activities. Keep an eye out to whom to talk to, cos ppl may put you into deep shit unless you are careful about the ppl you trust ( this is why people jus dont talk in corporates -mind voice !) during training i really worried if i would also become that silent once i join the team i even raised it as a concern to the trainer when they said you will know once u go to the department and now i know that u will become silent too since there wouldnt be any person for you to talk with.

Working isn't as cool as we thought it will be. Yes we work for our livelihood now and somehow it becomes a more serious thing when thought of that way.

Wow this post is all so serious now. ain't? :) well all work and no play makes anyone a dull person. so buck up all and find something more fun to do along side work to keep up the enthusiasm you had in life else yes slowly you will turn into a zombie ( yes u can smile now ) :D

Have a nice week ahead!

P.S: this is jus the beginning, more insights on work will follow =) 

start of something new!

Yes its official now.. I AM AN ENGINEER :p suddenly long gone are the days with lots of small smiles and fights. staying up aimlessly doing things, summa vetti dhan days. CORPORATE is the new mantra for all the slogging done for the past 4 years. responsibilty all the way here i come.

What's new??! everything.

Atmosphere, people, job, travel timings, departments. but i dont think thats gonna make me any different( hopefully :P).. last day of college as a student when our tags were taken away was filled with a lot of mixed emotions. i miss my college building, each corridor i spent walkin and runnin to class :( :) and mainly all the people who were with me throughout that journey. crazy ride it was. learnt a lootttttt! life teaches lessons on the go doesn't it!? tel me about it (mind voice :D)

the last 2 exams that we were looking fwd to get over with was extended more than a month and finally most awaited end of college due to the prolonged exam schedule and everything ended in the hurry of everyone trying to sort out their travel plans and moving out to places. So apparently the bidding goodbyes in groups and hanging out thing was lost somewhere in between. All of us telling each other to keep in touch through texts or by the social networking status comments was all that we were left with. Fear of losing our close friends whom we met everyday and the distance which was slowly increasing with our changed routines was filling our minds making our hearts heavy. As the most stated memory goes- before it used to be "hey lets meet and plan something" and now lets plan and meet someday" :( yes its true.

I can probably see every head readin this post nodding. And even those planned meetings dont work out always as some important work comes up for someone in the group in the last min and it gets called off. When this keeps repeating a situation comes when the group of ppl start meeting with whomsoevr turns up.. and there s always a lot of catching up to do when u wonder why dint i know all of this and think back when we used to text the other ppl in the group when even a small thing happens. We get busier everyday with things happening around us, each with a different thing but always remember that your friends are waiting to talk to you like always. so whenevr u get some time drop a line and its like before :)

Coming back to the corporate life, i ve jus stepped into it. lets see how it goes. wish me luck! :) 

final semester.last week.end of college already?!

I am back in this page after a long time. dunno why but it feels really weird at the end of everything! i want this entry to be a special one, cos it s being typed directly from my college laboratory. our final day of college is supposed to be tomorrow, the 10th of april 2012. Yes i am finally completing my engineering degree. surprised? i am too. happy-sad feelings and memories flood across and i am missing every moment of togetherness with everyone in class. each place. every corridor and all the bad and good things about my college life. the classroom fights and cold wars, the smiles, the stares and the blushes everything. cant get enough words to describe wat s on my mind right now. i am typing in a flow so fast that i am unable to put down all the thoughts ( i dont want you to doubt my typing speed it is pretty average :D)
       end of a phase of life is that wat they call it? ;) i dont know. But thats wat it feels like.*Silence* may be it leaves you all alone wondering wat next?! yes thats the exact position i am in now. oh final year? placements vandhacha is what ppl ask in the neighbourhood of my house, relations and any pther person one might come accross who ask you "enna ma panre ippo" enga athu slang yeah i ve heard it many a time to reproduce exactly wat i ve heard..
   so the answer for the question would be yes aunty TCS.. and they would be all happy and they 'd pinch your cheeks if u are a girl (which i am ;)) so everyone is happy you have a job ( yes i am happy too)! But there is still so much time left for joining and realisation of the fact that you are not a student and you'd actually be working in some months give me fear. NO take me back some 15 odd yrs and i am happy with playin on the swing ( thats my present mind voice :))
   Well as i always think move with time else you wil be left behind and so i ll be moving on too. Towards my unknown future, new job and new people and hoping that all is well :)

P.S: i started typing out this post with much confusion and as i 've highlighted the last 3 words i feel all will be well now and the future :P lest just hope so and i ll get back to you on how that goes on.

Today being a Monday,
i wanted to insert a picture that yells out a happy quote and i was shocked i couldn find any at all! wow people do hate mondays :D well why dont we try to change the world (now i'm jus going crazy :D) 
have a nice day! :)