तेरी भी चूप मेरी भी चूप

Its been always said world is a very small place, this is just an anticipation of the phrase.

Ever heard of Murphys Law " Anything which can go wrong, will go wrong, at wrong time", let me explain.

JOB a very important question in Life. Brings various emotions, no one is exception.

Everyone has a reason for JOB....Some love to do, some want to do & some have to do.

Working in a corporate firm is a challenge; People have entire time in the world to do things other than what they are hired for....Strange but ironically true.

So the term Switching Job is quite popular amongst public these days.

I was just having a normal day in Office, when I got a call from a friend informing @ a Walk-in-Interview in a well known firm.

Actually I never go for Walk-in-interviews as its just market survey (गट्टा मतदान scenario during any walk-in).

But the way my friend told me, the walk-in in other city was quite huge & very much appreciated by employees. More than thousand people had visit the venue on day & same was been expected other day.

As he informed me the same Walk-in-interview was to be conducted in my city in very next week. Just a thought in mind, नुस्त जाऊन तर येऊ आंबा पडला  तर पडला.

I was eagerly waiting for announcement of the Walk-in in news paper.

One thing @ Corporate life, never discuss any job related thing with any one in the organization, यहा दिवारो के भी कान होते हे

चूपचाप जाओ , Interview दे के आओ,,,Ssshhh...!!!

You Wont believe, what my Company has did with the newspaper,,,Earlier they were daily having times of India, but the Wednesday edition Ascent was always missing on all the company owned floors. Office boys were strictly instructed to vanish Ascent, coz company thinks that People might apply for jobs publish in the jobs page.

And one further step ahead they have blocked “News” permanently on the internet. Thanks to the internet world has become a local place, u can get the information these days in flick of time. So even though in the absence of newspaper, the Walk-in-Interview details were been circulated all over the place.

It was yet another weekend round the corner & suddenly there was a new @ the anticipated walk-in-interview. Mouth publicity is faster than speed of light (:)).

Within no time, the entire staff was talking @ the openings, the salary, the location & so on. I was also keen to know the details but was occupied by daily routine work.

Came to know from a friend that there were lot of relevant openings & we should try our chances. It was a Saturday, a day off, a breather & a sigh of relief. Relax time with family. But that wasn’t the case, Relatives sometimes visit you exact the time you dint want them to.

So here I was on the main road near my home waiting for my Wife’s relative. All I knew @ them was they are traveling in a car.

So I was just looking at each & every vehicle passing by.

Mean while I saw my Manager travelling right in front of me on his 2 wheeler with her mother on rear seat. I thought why was he dressed in white formal & that too on a Saturday, might be having some function so dint bother to call him.

By the time relatives had came. As they were travelling to there daughters place, they dint stay much in our home. After some break-fast they were on there way.

My friend called me & told that the walk-in-interview is pack house more than hundreds of candidates were there & still counting. I was in dual mind whether to go or not to go for the walk-in.

After having lunch, my friend called me again, forcing me to attain the walk-in. As my friend insisted, I got ready was there at the location in next half an hour.

As informed it was a pack house... Took around 5-10 minutes to park my bike. There were several counter (discipline specific), lot of people were in long queue. I was hoping someone from my office shouldn’t be around & must not see me.Coz if they do, there will be gossip around in the office & you know how it is in a so called corporate company, where people dont have time to do there work, but have entire time in the world to judge someone else’s work.

Formal wear for the Interview.
Just a Snap from other occasion

I completed all the formalities at the reception & was checking the people around.

I was very surprised, the position I had applied for, there were lot of aged & elderly people inline for the same position.

It was my first walk-in experience. There was a primary round of question & answers at 1st counter.

Done with it I went to next counter, where a very senior person was seating across the table to take the interview. Even this was a big hall, where, there were several people been interview at a time.

He asked me to seat. Interview started in typical fashion, starting from my background to my current job.

IRONY

The person interviewing me was jam of a technical guy, knowing small details of all engineering, so I had no scope of bluffing.

He asked @ my current role in the organization & the clients/ projects handled etc.

So I was @ to tell the name of the Project & I heard something unexpected...........!!!!

Someone was telling the same names of the project & client list as if someone is reading my mind.

I was surprised for a moment. I took a pause & turned to see who it was...................

BANG,,,,,the person seating beside me was my Senior & he was also there for interview.

I dint knew how to react; it was a very awkward moment.

I was asked “Reference Please", I called my Project manager & laughed out loud " इथंच reference देऊ काय".

He also dint expected me to be at the interview. He said he knew that he will meet someone from our company, but wished it shouldn’t be me...." कोण पण चाललं असतं पण तू नको” as we share the same cabin in office...hahahaha

Post interview we had a big laugh.

The next day in office was silent.

Moral of the Story  " तेरी भी चूप मेरी भी चूप ".