Ranom Scribblings – I

Im posted in Chennai ( read CHengelpet), a lil over 45 kms from the city at a serene location with huge buildings and an amazing infrastructure that would have costed the company millions of dollars.But the reply for what my role there currently is still unclear,though i have a project code for this in the org BNCH (‘SHORT’ form  for Bench) .I go there daily and come back learn a bit ,travel a lot. So i thought let me revive  the habit of blogging and fotoing again..

Disclaimer :

All the posts from now on would be total non-sense and nothin more than that.So for those, who’s project codes are anything other than BNCH can skip reading them.

So far so good !

Hey folks,
it’s going to be a real long time since i made an entry. So to continue with where i left…I joined Infosys ,Mysore with dreams like every other Engineer passing out of an engineering college , dreams of making money and learning new stuff. I came to Mysore with all things packed up and i knew it was not going to be a cake walk , neither did i think that it wud be  tough..Hmmm 8th Sep’08 , the day when i first entered the campus as an employee , it was great n it took us so much time to settle down. those were golden days , those initial few days..Of course, who would’nt be happy if someone calls you “sir”, and cleans your room everyday as if you have booked a royal suite. Before i forget,the rooms.. imagine you go out of your home (get off your comfort zone!) for the first time in 20+ years and not staying with some 5-6 guys in a dorm,but in an air conditioned room with 32 inches LCD TV and the room’s fully furnished , what more would one expect?
The main reason for this silence is partly due to the work timings and partly cos i had lost the interest in everything…One thing about Infosys is that if you have to survive here,you should be ready to oblige to what they say initially. if 65 is the pass percentage , get it somehow and be safe. After that around November or so i was put in Mainframes stream and that happened to be interesting and a brand new thing (for me)  so learnt that but that was not a smooth sail again, i flunked in the compre exam and that was like a ” in or out” situation. So was going through a bad phase.After all this the recession has taken its toll, No projects and so no work for us and i don see any work for me in the near future. I have to learn, to sit idle from 9-5 everyday i guess.Let’s see what’s in store for me. My training’s expected to get over by March 15th but rumors widespread that we’ll be asked to ‘ (No) work-from-home’ for a couple of days..One good thing in all this is that i visited quite a few places and i’ve been waiting to share the experiences and i will soon put ‘em all here.

A week @ a Call center!

I know there’s no one to bother about why no entry has been posted here ….. Even then i would give a reason , Its simple I have started my work life .  MY joblessness was the soul reason to make me attend an interview and get into a ‘famous’ BPO ( herein referred to as call centre ) in Chennai . Last week me and a friend of mine went to attend the so called HR interview at Santhome and as never before in the history of interviews the HR was waiting for us cos as usual we went very late . The interviewer was so ‘kind’ and made us take up a telephonic interview with an AMERICAN lady who’s name was some gowry or somthing.I thought she never have spoken a word in Tamil all her life but she seemed to be one of those Maami types. That was the first instance which made me realise that with a telephone you can make an American think that his English is not as good as the one’s on the opther side.. I assume that is why Call center’s survive.. well After that i got selected in the not so tought interviews, and felt too good to have gotten placed for the second time in my career ( So far ,so good ) .

My first day at work( training rather) I was told to go to their learning centre and that is a small class room for 25 fully equipped with latest computers and high speed net ( I cannot check mails , no orkut , no blog , nothing that i would do at home on the internet ) so decided to install VLC media player to watch movies , though Pen drives and CD’s are restricted , sneaking them inside is not a problem at all ( the funny part  is that securities check the bags in and out but never have they checked my pockets) . The training consists of Presentaions ,  basic grammar , and later improved on the tricks of handling calls and the tricks involved in handling irate customers. The cafetria is good but the free lucnch provided is kind of horrible . Before i forget, the best part is that at 6.30 in the morning i get a phone call from a person who addresses me as “Sir ” which  has never happened before ha ha ha , He’s the cab driver and since i am not the punctual types and the office being close to my place i have been in cab only twice or thrice.

Well , you could have found the reason for my long silence in blogosphere and let me keep you all updated as to what’s around , until then bye.

P.S : I’m trained for the post of Technical support executive for DELL or in simple terms I’m gonna be one of those ‘call center agents’ . Fortunately I don need to hide my identity and Im Ashwin not ‘Anderson’

For the long silence!

Well , I know it has been a real long time since i posted an entry. Thought i should at least post a recently taken pic, i liked the pic so much. Think you’ll enjoy this !