Memoirs of Pune diary 1.0

I guess when I joined Wi*** Tech if some one would have asked “which is the last place on earth where u would like to work?”, my answer most definitely would have been “Pune”. I guess its natural decision as if u ask the same question to anyone other than a tamil and Andra fellow, they wouldn’t want to be seen around Chennai either. Lets just agree that we just cant mingle naturally. Well that’s what I thought when I went to pune. Considering that my hindi is at its best slightly better than a 2nd grade kid’s hindi , I had very little to look forward to when I reached there.

But I guess life has its own twists and tales and now if somebody asks me a question on “Your most preferred location to work?”…”Pune”. I guess how a year and a half can change ones perception of the world.

I was deported from Chennai to pune on feb 14th 2004 (What a day to waste!!!). As we reached pune at around 2.00am in the night, we directly shifted to the company provided accommodation, “Hotel Rathnalok“ which was miles away from my work place. I and my batchmates found that we had very little money and we knew no one, barring manoj. As we were not earning at that time, we came up with a brilliant plan of 5 people staying in a 2 bed room with 3 people sleeping on couch and 2 on the floor. It turned out to be pretty economical at that time. Though the company is reimbursing we were damn poor tat we didn’t have money to pay up front, so 5 of us shared a room. We liked the arrangement so much tat all 5 of us took an apartment when our time at the guesthouse ended. There was a pretty interesting thing tat happened, the vibration from the floor below us caught all of us by surprise and still vividly remember how we took turns trying to force one another to sleep on floor and how we fought with the management guys to get this thing resolvedJ

So off we went to work and found ourselves promptly put in bench. I understand that in all software companies the biggest hoaxes are ‘the trainings’. When we were recruited, we were trained on Java and the moment I reported at pune, they put me in .NET. I just wonder how on earth all these software behemoths reap such obscene profits year on year, quarter on quarter when they don’t show any signs of people management? May b this might be a little paradox of the industry.

Of course as I knew neither java nor .Net, I was happy that I didn’t have to choose among the two. Though I liked web development and was reasonably good at it, I really didn’t want to do tat for a living. Still remember my mentors at those times abhijeet and richa who helped me out tremendously. I was sitting in the same cube and used to bug the life out of them for 3 months. Well they really helped me out a lot on whatever I was doing at tat point. Forgot to mention that I had a whale of time with two trainees who were there namely abhijeet and ashish. Well one thing abt pune, every other person is either abhijeet or ashish met a whole bunch of them there…

Hence it started my life at pune, all interesting occurrences of the first 1 week in a nut-shell. Though my life had changed drastically after the first week, it was the starting point of everything...!!!!