What a happy lot we were!! At last we were being told that we will be receiving our joining letter via email soon that will contain answers to all our queries that someone just can’t ask from the company people directly during the interview. It would include everything including salary breakup (Which we were not being told before), bond, training and other details ranging from atmosphere at training and placement after successful completion of training. Our Tentative date of joining would be 4th of November, 2009.
Normally “How does a fresh communication engineering student without any job experience react after getting through the interview of a worldwide famous telecommunication company???” Well one may easily say –at first he would be happy and content. The next thing that follows is that ringing up each and everybody known to him starting according to his priority; from his family to his friends, that he has got the job. The reply to his phone calls changes from “May god bless you and my blessings will always be with you, be careful it is your first job” to “Wow!! Congrats my friend”, “You were the black horse from our stable and u proved it!!”, “I am going to inform each and everyone around here”, “What’s the salary??”, and “When is the joining?”, “YOU ARE VERY LUCKY”….and it goes on... and so forth…
Then, after the first blast of energy the student starts to prepare for the future that life holds for him. He starts ringing up his seniors placed in same or may be in the same field about their review and comments on the type of job and the company if possible…jotting down the pros and cons that he may face in his life and his take on the job…Now why does he does this? My friend this is just a false way of consoling himself that u are treading the good path and making himself belief “All is well”..(PSST: - Aamir please don’t sue me…)
Next comes communicating with batch mates with whom he would be rubbing shoulders shortly after joining the company… Oops!! Sorry there are no more batch mates they will be his colleagues. It starts with the same regional ones, such as the one from his place and then moving onto the rest of India… Now days, with online sites and networking it is now no longer impossible to connect with people who are facing the same thing or situation or as u may say stepping on the same boat without knowing the future…thus virtually connecting each and every other person as “online friends” ready to exchange necessary information on the same…but one question still remains...how authentic is this friendship…I mean what is the extent that one may continue this friendship or rather how much can u put your faith in all those so called friends in your friend list…just adding a friend in to your friend list does not mean that u such a social person…it may even happen that the next door “Raju”(please all names are fictional…and bears no resemblance to anyone living or dead…oh god I am saved) is also in your friend list but u haven’t seen him face to face...or may be such that u don’t recognize the person when u confront him…What’s the use...I mean what is the use when u are showing the world that you are a great social person when in reality you are nothing more than an introvert and even lack the basic sense of greeting each other…
Oh God!!!Forget all this…what a crap…am I also turning into an “AATEL” (thought to be a high level thinker...who develops new theory about mankind and way of living and forcing some simple minded person to just think and ponder what the real thing that he meant when there aren’t any) …all this is due to watching all those movies.
Who doesn’t want to show he world how many friends I have… though you can count me out…I am not one of them adding friends just because they look ornamental in your online profile…but one can surely search for communities and forums in the net so as to exchange all the doubts and getting them cleared in a better way…
Ok Ok I am stopping all these nonsense! Sorry for those who have left till now getting bored…am I also getting too much boring… I think so…
Now what really happens is that one starts getting his problems solved through communities and forums…and even then a time comes when all the problems start to diminish and an eternal wait starts for the joining letter...it was also true in my case…we had been assured of getting joining within a month…who wouldn’t be happy…
In the meantime the parents in home start behaving better with you…utter “ar kotadin thakbi? Bhalo kore khaoa daoa kor. Sorir bhalo na thakle kaj korbi ki kore”. This may even come along with two three few droplets of “Hothath Bristi” from their eyes…at that point there is really very less thing that you can do…believe me my friend…that is the one time when u really wish...that your joining gets delayed…
As the tentative date gets nearer you may try to do a bit of shopping some of the long desired items that you have been keeping in your heart for a long time…Parents at this time of your life are more vulnerable and are easily reachable and will get you easily what you want…try it my friend…I bagged a new mobile (though my old one was damaged)…
While all these are going on, news of students around the country getting their joining letter comes pouring into the forum… you frantically search your inbox, making it sure that you even check your spam (the folder that you haven’t touched since you have opened this new account…rest aside checking)…Oh God…not again…again new polling system…”How many have got your joining letter”. New threads…”people getting joining today”…again the company gives you time to speculate…about your joining letter which you have been promised to come within a month…and the community comes alive…which had been dead for the last few days…
Time is the best healer…is there a saying like this??? Did you ask something from God that you shouldn’t have…think think…then why did this thing happen with you…
Did you ask for a delay in your joining??? Did you had something else in mind while wishing for…………………..and it goes on…. and you just can’t make out why in which point in your life did you ask for such a foolish wish…and was HE sitting idle just like you???How come he granted you this wish so easily, when other begging and pleas falls to HIS deaf ears, when you really want something else so eagerly from Him?
As I said…time is the best healer. Yes I think so…it happened in my case…it had been since one month that our tentative date for joining has passed…no the date hasn’t passed without any joining…the people from other parts of the country have been selected, though randomly…the more LUCKIER ones have managed to get their joining on time…while only a few handful of us are sitting behind at home…we now have nothing to speculate except the recent joining letter that stated that we need to join the company three months later…even speculations and arguments have ended as many people from the remaining batch are leaving for job offers from other companies…causing the strength of the second batch to diminish day by day…Is anyone listening????
Only one thing in heart….ALL IS WELL…..Thanks Aamir….this time for giving us such a good one liner…so as to calm our hearts when in need…
