Place meant for Placement...

Last week was really interesting. Too many things happened to mention, of which here i mention one...

Interviewer: Who the hell do you think you are.??!! Get up, go to the door and say it to me.
Student: Sir..I am (bla bla bla bla)( he was tinge nervous ).
Interviewer: Why is your left hand moving?
Student: I don't know sir.
Interviewer: What hell do you mean you dont know.!!! bloody hell you say that you are confident etc etc etc all bullshit, and i see your bloody hand oscillating...who do you think i am.? you think i don't know, huh.?? These kind of people is exactly what i don't want!! I will take in bullshit but i bloody don't want people whose hands bloody start oscillating like a bloody pendulum, bullshit!! You are not worth being in TCS. I assure you you are out!.
Interviewer:(after some time) Do you have any questions for me.?
Student: Yes, sir.
Interviewer: What ? ask it and go..
Student: Why was my left hand moving?

The interviewer had no good answer. The student was venky, and he is now a part of TCS. The interviewer's name we still don't know. He grilled every student he interviewed and asked hell like questions. Everyone called him Raghu, for he was bald. But, he didn't reject a single student he had the talk with. He interviewed nearly 10 or 12 from my college, and selected all of them. I was one of them. In a moment, from Raghu he became Auro.

This happened last week. After two days of grueling wait, at 7 30 pm, the T&P officer announced the names. When my name was announced i knew what was happiness, i felt what relief was. I understood what satisfaction was. But most of all, after a long time, i knew where i was,i knew what i was. I had an offer letter which said i would be paid 315,000 Rs in an year.
Next day, i was called up by Infocepts Technologies (remember 'Collapsed Anxiety' Sept08.?). They wanted to give me an offer letter as well. I went there, and after some wait, they gave me an offer letter, no an appointment letter !!! Since i was already working on a project with them, i was given direct appointment as a data warehouse associate. I didn't know what to do!! i was presently the only person in YCCE with multiple job offers.!!!!
I came back home and read the letter to mom. You are being offered a job at 3,00,0000 Rs annually. For a moment i couldn't realize what the fault was, but then i realized there was a problem..!!! A big big problem!!! instead of 3,00,000 they had accidentally added one more zero!!!!! So right now i was holding an offer letter for 30 lacs in an year!!!!! Obviously it was an error, but it was enough to make me enjoy that moment!!! This happened yesterday.

Now, when i was all set to check out the mail from TCS ( which i was told to follow in order to get some official stuff ), i didn't have that mail, when everyone had already got it. To add to my worries the other vishnu pillai in my class called me then and told that he had the mail from TCS, with all his details!!! Oh, dear!!! Now what!!! i checked the selection letter, the TCS id was not mine, it was of the other vishnu's ( he could not get to the finals)...Oh God where was I!!! I didn't know what to do, where to go, whom to call, whom to tell, nothing.!! I had just rejected a 30lacs offer (though a printing mistake), and here i was with a placement letter that had details of another vishnu!!!! I was in complete chaos, i was nervous.

After all this, when I stood in front of my mirror,thinking what to do? what not to do? whom to call? what to say? what not to say? ,all i saw was one thing:
my left hand was moving.

C for CAT...C for Catastrophe..

After one and a half year of hard work, one and a half year of time, on the fourth day of December this year, my mind was full of fear. Not fear of maths, nor DI, nor English...it was a fear of something no CAT taker had ever experienced till this year, the fear of a crashed server. The fear of not being able to even get an opportunity to even knock on the doors of the Indian Institutes of Management. The fear that after an year an half of heart felt preparation, a single worm nimbda or a conflicker would end it all in a matter or minutes and ruin everything we yearned for. No need to doubt, i am talking about the phenomenon called CAT. Perhaps a new definition for ailurophobia!!!
There has been so much of talk already, petitions being filed, etc etc. Personally, I have no feeling even in any corner of my mind that the paper would be scrapped. They have invested too much already. But for a student like me, a student who has no shortage of dreams by any means, a student who has toiled hard to get that opportunity to push his limits and be recognized for what he is and not for what he wants to be, the absence of the opportunity means more than that investment, its incalculable. The pain of missing out a chance when all your colleagues and friends have successfully completed the test, with no errors, just adds salt to the already unhealable wound.
Numerous such wounded students are holding their telephone receivers right now and dialing a number they never wished they would need to. The Prometric student helpline. And all they are hearing is the busy tone. Imagine the mental agony a student faces when finally he gets the call connected only to hear that he cannot be helped in his case. That feeling is not recommended for any light hearted, in fact it's not recommended for any one.!! It kills. And there's not just one or two students who faced that dreadful situation, there are thousands. Which include potential IIM students, students who had an average of 99.89 percentile in all the mock CATs they had taken, students who were toppers, all were now holding telephone receivers, checking mailboxes, message inboxes, waiting for the mail that never came for many.
I do not know how prometric is prepared to answer the questions these students would have in store for them. I don't know how Prometric is prepared to answer the parents of all the students who got depressed on missing out on the exam they had waited for so long. So many questions have already raised against Prometric, why no learned person to help students? Why did their software get hanged when they wanted to answer the question? Why did some students get more time to answer.? Why couldn't they see the diagrams .?? And for god's sake why cant they even take the test!!!!??
They never had answers to these questions, so no more questions....Shame on You Prometric!!