Being a CENTRALITE.........

Throughout my school and college days I have been dreading of the day I will complete my education and land up in a job. I was always an academic person and never thought of my career before choosing any course or degree. I took commerce in school because I liked the subjects, (I always found a very high degree of correlation between economics and philosophy), then went for B.Com to experience the life of Delhi University. Through out school and graduations exams never made me tensed but results did.

Then the day came when I graduated, unlike my expectations, NM college saw an over whelming response from the corporate world. But I didn’t sit for placements, I had my way out….post graduation. During graduation I started preparing for MBA, I reached this conclusion by the ‘Principle of elimination’ (CA is too boring, M.Com is too theoretical, law is too argumentative). Two years of MBA went by in a flash, and finally the time came for placements. Though I was among the first ones to get summers but I had my apprehension during final placements. The year of 2009 was not like another years; there were lot of turbulence in the economy and the job market was not that good. Something, which was source of anxiety for others, became a blessing in disguise for me. Now I could confidently say to myself “I didn’t get a job, because of external factors”. But soon this confidence started quaking when I was left among the last 10 unplaced candidates.

Finally got through Central Bank of India, never thought that would work with a public sector organization, but I was never upset about it. Started my first job with a month and half long induction. It was a dream come true for me. It was reliving college days in the job and what more could I have asked for. But soon this tenure also came to an end. I was very scared to join the office; this is due to the fact that I am strategically misfit in the corporate world. I never understood what is meant by ‘Professionalism’. Had been hearing this word throughout the MBA life, but could never really find any meaning behind it.

Anyways carrying forward to my glorious past, I managed to perform lot of corporate bloopers at CBI too. Topping the list is a ‘falling off the chair’. While working on the PC I came on the edge of the chair and then a dhadaam!!. I pretended that I am trying to find something on the floor, but to my surprise a colleague saw me falling down and even came to help me.

The other incident was when my boss was talking to someone and I started laughing on what he was saying. He came to me and said, “ Don’t laugh at me”. This happens every second day whenever he tries to scold me, I end up laughing. And few days back I bumped my face on the door of his cabin and kept sitting with a puffed nose throughout the day.

Its pretty humid in Mumbai these days, so around 5 in the evening I went to restroom to was my face. I applied soap on my face and then when opened the tap, there was no water. I waited for someone to come for sometime. Finally when left with no option I had to come out in the office with my face smeared with the soap and again became the laughing stock for everyone. There are numerous small incidents apart from these.

Today I have completed two months in the office, and it feels great that I am still not thrown out of the organization. Jokes apart, its not that bad. Meeting deadlines, attending meetings, eating sweets on everyone’s birthday and anniversaries, at times getting scold by boss is fun. I am enjoying my stint at CBI. At times I get very special treatment, all Sirs and Maams in office are too sweet and caring. (I miss U Sonabar Maam). They treat us like kids, noone tries to play any politics with us and there are some naughty Maams too ;) (Rashne Maam how can I miss to mention you ). We spend more time in our offices than at home..and what matters at the end of the day is few smiles and blessings...I am fortunate to get this precious gift everyday..

Have made some special friends here. Everyday after office we catch up at Marine Drive to
share our everyday happenings, eating chana zorgaram and checking out girls (my preferences have not changed, this is because of Changu-Mangu). May be its too early to reach a conclusion but I believe “agar kuch achha hi sochna hai, to dair kyun”, I am completely enjoying my first job. :)