Strangely, the days we are supposed to celebrate, teach us lessons which we are never ready for. This was the day when I stepped into my professional career, I started earning bucks on my own. But, this was the same day when I learnt to live in fear, no it is not the Organizational threat, it was a lesson from Mother Nature...
On 24th September 2007, I was ready to attend my First Day at Office with the enthusiasm of a child who was being taken to a fun-park... My dad accompanied me to my Office, he waited at the gate till I waved him bye, just before entering into the Office... but then rain intervened and everyone standing at the gate to see-off the Freshers were welcomed to the lobby area to take shelter... I thanked God for giving me an opportunity to see my dad again before the journey began... I was feeling like a child being taken away from his/her mother... I decided to take the step towards accepting reality as it comes...
When I tried to relieve myself from the awkward feeling, I realized the interiors of my new-Workplace resembled some unrealistic movie set-up. We were asked to wait in a class room. The class-room however resembled a Hi-tech class-room in my Engineering college. The recruitment team head came to welcome us to the Corporate World. In few minutes they started with their routine procedure for new-joinees. We were supposed to Sign some documents and attend an Orientation programme designed for new-joinees. The recruitment team head who gave the welcome lecture, said, We do not have employee bonds in Cognizant. The reason they assume is that, Associates do not quit Cognizant since, the love it. However, reality is quite far away...
In an hours time, we finished signing all the documents that they wanted us to get signatures on. Then came the Party time, someone came up in the break time, and said that we would be distributed Free Meal Coupons... we felt like, we were at the right place at the right time... The food was at its normal quality standards...(nothing out of the box)... but little did we know, as time passes away... choice becomes habit and habit loses its essence...
At 3.00 PM, we had a topic for gossiping... wht Tech and Vertical we wud be assigned... but in a quarter hour... the results were out... my dream to be a developer were shattered to pieces... Some good man arrvied and announced that associates from Mechanical Engg and Civil Engg branches were allocated to Testing Domain...
In the evening, at 6.30 PM, when I came out of the Office it was still raining cats and dogs, just to say that Mother Nature was shedding tears which I barricaded in my eyes. That is when I realized that, I should the share the amazing feeling of what it is to be in a Job, with my Mom and Sis back home. I rushed to the Telephone Booth and made 2 quick fire calls to my Home and my very dear friend, Divya. I had to tell many things about my office, to my mother and sister, but time was short, since, I had to accompany my dad to railway station, to catch his train for return journey.
We packed up his baggage and were set to leave at 7.30PM. Once again rain intervened with an increased intensity. None of the Taxis were ready to take us to the railway station, since the road was waterlogged with water up to 1feet height. When we were all out of options, we decided to board a Local Bus. The buses were overcrowded due to unavailability of Taxis. The first bus which crossed the bus stop, was over-overcrowded. The next bus attender/conductor, didn't allow us to board with the single bag we were carrying. I asked my dad to board the bus from the front entrance, I somehow managed to board the bus from the rear entrance along with the bag. After 90 mins of gruelling journey aboard the bus, we reached the Howrah station.
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