My first working day in Mumbai...The rains had taken a toll on the city and the infamous 26 July had just paased by...I reported at my office before time, all decked up in a formal attire with a tie..After all I was going to work for India's biggest IT company...Coming from an average B School, it was a dream for me...and I already felt like a winner...
As I go inside, the atmosphere was exactly opposite of what I had thought of....or had seen in other offices...It was completely unorganized and looked in a bad state...I blamed it on rains...Some conoslation for bad office place...Then ppl started coming in and all my hopes were killed...I saw ppl coming in chappals, shirts not tucked in and with an unshaven look (not to forget the long black umbrella)...I waited patiently for my manager to come in...Every one (I mean that) looked at me from top to bottom...One even whispered...He is wearing Tie!....I now know how Zoo animals feel...
Anyways...my manager came in finally...we had a short intro and then he took me for a round of the office....and then some formalities...He said "Do u have Pain"....I replied...Sorry???..."Pain, Pain"...he responded...It was then that I realized that he was asking for a Pen and not Pain!...Accent issues...Anyways...he was my temporary manager...and i was told that soon I will be having a new manager - A lady named "Femina" - Nice name, I thought and all the images of the Femina magezine came to my mind....I was actually looking forward to meeting Femina..with such a name and image in my mind, she was hard to resist...
And then after a few days, came my first meeting with her...I must say i was really excited...I had a perception about her in my mind...But but but...all hopes came crashing down as I saw her...A dark, tall and plump lady in her 40's (well nothing wrong with that) was sitting in her cabin...It was not the physical apperance but the experession on her face (Ok...both) made her look FEROCIOUS!...She was going to be my manager and she was dangerous...Khoosat Buddhi is the word in Hindi.....Nooooooooooo...(I had shouted in my mind)....Within a week, all my hopes of working in a sexy office with a lady manager were gone...and the weather was not helping either...rains rains and more rains...my first week in Mumbai was a disaster- in my mind atleast...and my Femina encounters did not stop here...It was just the beginning... :-(
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