Monday 01-03-2010
The Cab guy drops me outside a smaller Infy (from Infosys Standards) Campus in CHD. Because of SEZ rules I was denied to carry my prized possession MAC book till my room. Now everyone knows why you buy Apple's Macintosh, you want to flaunt it at Airports, Hotels :P. If you have to keep your lappy concealed somewhere under blanket in your bed, you can settle down for a Dell (No offense meant, i know still you will be), for a better configuration at half the price.
Being a staunch North Indian for initial 22 years of my life, I had packed my luggage nearly 5 years back, when job hunt and finally securing a job made me land in the Garden City/ Pub City/ IT city/ Silicon Valley of India.
And now after 57 months stay there and a struggle of nearly 300 days, I have managed to get transferred to Infosys CHD. People, who choke networks, consuming hundreds of Gigabytes of bandwidth in forwarding the mails defacing the Infosys Process about getting request based transfers, have not at all exaggerated it, even by an inch. Believe me; it seriously takes that much effort and perseverance.
Still no regrets. I had spent quality time during these last few months in Bangalore.
Now security guys outside Infy Bangalore will never miss to X-ray you with their James Bond style of stare. But here the guys were(or infact are) least bothered to even open the gates and I also obliged them by not disturbing them from their chat about Manmohan Singh's opinion about Pranab Da's budget. In India the policies are discussed better here, than at the PMO in North Block at Raisina Hill. I opened the gate myself, not once, but thrice that night.
Reached Reception, welcomed by no one. Reminds you of horror movies or the Ginger Hotel ads. I never expected a smiling Airhostess kinda hospitality here, but atleast someone has to handover to me the keys of the room. A bunch of housekeeping guys, busy watching TV. Seeing my helplessness for nearly 200 seconds, finally one of them feels pity for me and comes forward.
Sir chai ke liye gya hoga, Aa rha hoga. Aap wait karo sir, 5 min.*
Finally after 5 minutes wait someone takes charge at desk, punctual man, took exactly 5 minutes.
He is busy checking his mobile SMSes. 305 le lo sir. Now the thing to be noticed here is that he doesn't seem apologetic at all, infact he's proud. Sales guys can best learn this impudent attitude here, not even top B-school will be able to teach you that.
When I come out of elevator, I am welcomed by a corridor filled with cigarette smoke. And I used to think that Punjab is the state that generates least revenue from Cigarettes, bcoz of Sikh religion. But my fellow state people feel very proud of breaking laws.
Can someone explain this proud rule-breaker that how problematic it is for others when you smoke in AC.
5th March:
3 days were normal Infosys Office Days. Infact they were quite good among the Punjabi, Haryanvi and Delhiite girls crowd, and especially as long as they all seem new to me.
3rd day, I left my shoes in GYM, before taking bath. But probably that was the last time I was seeing them. After bath they are no more seen.
However I try to solace myself with silly reasoning, that some poor chap carried it with him by mistake and not with the intention of stealing, because socks were also missing. Now a regular shoe-thief will atleast not be interested in smelling the sweat drenched Haynes Socks, yes work-out does that :( Otherwise my socks are not at all handy at Anesthesia department.
Waiting with a hope towering as high as 'Panjab da Khali', for that mistaken guy to return it back on Monday.
But definitely its warm Welcome in my own North Indians careless cool attitude. And yes I am loving it, u read it right, even after losing my 3 weeks old, 3000 bucks worth Nike pair of shoes.
*: Would have gone out for a cup of tea sir, Will be back soon. Please wait for 5 minutes.
