Some personal experiences are so different and novel that you want to propound them. Sharing with all of you a few anecdotes lifted from my diary.
Two months down and I’m still trying to absorb the essence of getting out of the college world and moving into the corporate ambience. These 2 months brought before my eyes a flurry of emotions, favourite images belonging to my enviable college years and many new faces.
Each office of my organization has approximately 30 people with amazing idiosyncrasies. Age group: 25 yrs (vibrant) to mid 40s (troubled and bored).
Akin to a classroom, an office too has 3-4 dedicated employees putting in more than 9hrs on a daily basis. These employees generally have their sick leaves piled up beyond the encash-able limits. I also came across a passionate engineer who knows the technical specifications of even the smallest nut and bolt that goes into making business for the organization. A few others work because it’s the next best option for them to sitting idle. They are the ones who avail every sick leave and/or casual leave and even the annual LTA. Then there are some who cease to be corporeal once it is the official time out. They just vanish from the face of the earth once it is 6 o’ clock. These are also the ones who always look forward to passing office hours under the guise of some or the other excuse for celebrations. They indulge in persistently demanding motichur laddoos from a colleague whose brother’s daughter got married recently! Some go to the extent of discussing the age of the crockery/cutlery used in office!!
In a client company, we get to associate with a lot of contractual staff. It’s hilarious at times to see seniors dealing with labourers repeatedly falling ‘sick’ and complaining of long queues at the general physician’s clinic; as a result of which they report late at site.
My organization is largely benefited by the open-door policy. It has increased lateral communication and thereby improved the levels of mutual understanding and cooperation amongst the staff members.
I have come to conclude that the corporate world in itself may or may not be disciplined but it does discipline you. Scheduling your CLs and PLs is a lot different than humble bunking. Planning your budget and investments is another good habit that a monthly salary can imbibe in you. The erratic urgencies at work place, accessibility through the Blackberry and web-mail post office hours have a great capacity to disrupt your work life balance. Hence setting and achieving your daily targets becomes indispensable.
Amidst this differently experienced staff, many a times I find myself lost in my college days. I also realize that I am the one who uses the text messaging facility more than anyone else in my office during office hours :P. One particular message (thanks to phone banking) comes every month…just to ease the travel woes and work pressures that troubled you the previous month and also provide you the incentive to come back to the same place month after month!
Few other observations include that tenders and other spiral bound organizational literature has only one side printed. As I sit with one bulky tender document, I find myself flipping the pages I have read and I am yet to read at an interval of 20minutes…and there is always a disturbing difference between these two variables!
It also happens that the last hour of the official day has more than 60minutes!!
I also realized that going home after work is a highly emotional incentive.
I am one of the few lucky ones to avail it daily…
