Friday, June 29, 2007

Zilch Balance

My salary account still reads zero balance!

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Its Official.....

Finally the day has dawned.. The day I have been so very afraid of! Its official guys. I am bankrupt!
All that I have is seventy bucks. And I owe a colleague fifty bucks. And I would be left with twenty bucks! And am leaving for Hyderabad tonight. Thankfully the tickts are booked!! Bangalore to Hyderabad, with twenty bucks....
But still guys it might not be that bad. What if the naxalites tartget the bus I am travelling. I would have the last laugh! They might even take pity on me and share the booty with me!!
What a day it was.. I walk down to the bus stop , catch a van, travel for a few minutes; only to realise I dont have my wallet and my mobile when the ticket issuing chappie comes. I tell him I dont hv my mobile, need to get down - walk all way back home, get my stuff, trek back to the bus stop (which is ten minute walk from my house - couldnt afford an auto you see ;) and catch a BMTC bus... And am late to office.
And I walk into the training room half an hour late and all eyes are on ME!
And during the break I want to impress one of my seniors (thankfully he aint my supervisor) with my Kannada and tell him "Yenn Magaa". And he just gives me creepy look that seems to say "Are you nuts or what".
Well supposedly Yenn Magaa aint the language good girls speak in. Its Tapori Language!!!
Bhargav, Pavan , RK , Sunil... Wait till I meet you next!!!

Sunday, June 24, 2007

No system Yet!

Havent yet got my work station!!And the training room is kinda cold(!). And the work seems to be more technical for the functional guys and more functional for the techie guys. I am supposedly in the implementation team. Well I have no clue as to how my product works and am prety sure theres not much thts going to get clear in the near future either. I like to joke abt me doing things the classic way, while the truth is tht I cant do it any other way. The only use I have for my computer is to play music, read online books, check mail... get the drift?
And I still reemmber Che's remark some ten years back on one of my classmates getting a system. If you are gonna use your system only to use excel sheets, MS word and so on; why dont you get urself a type writer and a calculator??
Going by those standards, I dont deserve to have a system!
Update:
I have finally been assigned a system. Now wait a minute before you guys start feeling happy for me! After spending close to two hours trying to get someone from the helpdesk configure my new system, I realise I ought to move out from here too! Now howz that?

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Lost my Workstation!!

Almost one month into work and I have already lost my work station!! All this long I was sitting with the HR and Admin guys but then atleast I had a work station!! And today when I come back from my training one of the Admin females (and just why do most of the HR, Admin and group secretaries need to be females??) is already working from my work station. And while I very politely ask her if she would take long even while I am fuming with anger; after all it is my work station, I had just locked the system and there were quite a few applications running: She tells me that I am supposed to meet my group secretary. "Oh! So she is finally back is it??" is wht I want to blurt out. She has been on a very long vacation after her wedding that I used to joke about her extending it to a maternity leave. And this lady very coolly tells me that I was alloted this work station only 'cos there was no other place and anyways I am in training and I wouldnt need the system. Excuse me!! Where do I park myself when we arent in training??? And she tells me she ll try to place me elsewhere but then anyways we will be moving out to another office in another fifteen days.(btw we are moving to a new location opposite to the Sai Baba temple, Whitefield). So....
Now I am supposed to wait for another fifteen days or what??
And when I get back to my work station, that lady happily informs me "After all I only gave you this desk naa?". Lady, so you can reclaim back my desk as yours is it???

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

First Job!

I am back! After a long period of silence I am finally into blogging! After an anxious and a seemingly never ending wait, I have started work at Iflex- my very first job! Though I must add I am still jobless, waiting for the product training from 18th June. Employed and Jobless!!
We do group training sessions though and I have come to realise the importance of using fewer words! You can make few nervous first time employed buncha freshers sit through your verbose monologue, but would your clients sit through sessions tht drag for hours altogether?
Anyways all tht I seem to do during training is to count the number of days remaining for the Friday to dawn( when I can catch the bus/train to Chennai) and for my first salary to be credited to my account!! And ofcourse dream abt all the things tht I did do!! Another 17 days to wait before I can afford to shop!