Saturday, December 19, 2009

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.

4 comments:

a summer intern said...

if i may suggest...."THE RIGHTEOUS LEFT"

Unknown said...

what happened then? what is happening now?!
we r still colleagues, rite?

Vishnu™ Pillai said...

absolutely!!!! colleagues!!!!! tcs zindabad!!!!

Anonymous said...

very well written...

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