The Aftermath
The D-day for a lot many of the people was today. The placement process went into the "Slot-1". The so called boom in the economy showered its blessing on the job scene too. Hell lot of offers made on the campus this time but still the people placed in the slot was less than the last time. All was going on in between the news from A of legendry $185,000 pkgs. People here were trying to inflate the packages to a respectable and comparable number. So around $180,000 was arrived at. I guess it must include the per head expense for cleaning the toilets people might be using on the job. Afterall it is an indirect component of the salary!!! The placement process was as bizarre as ever. After first few hour nobody really cared whose GD/interview one was taking. You are my first priority and yours is so fun palce to work at, I will get a kick working there, I get a high doing this. Same old shit and same old answers. Can there be a sizeable fraction of people working who like their jobs. Job means you wont like it PERIOD.Though after getting the dream-jobs and just-get-out-of-the-process jobs, half the campus was not on campus. Poor Kolkata infrastructure could not take it. And there was a severe shortage of taxis. People have nothing to do. Discussions move on from the salaries to thrid grade movies of Salman Khan and even the comics released on these movies. The good old days of Dhruv and Nagraj and the gully cricket. There is footer volley going on in one of the hostels.(Though it happened otherwise too) Booze is flowing like anything.(Flowed all the time) Teetotallers have dropped the bad habit and can be heard cracking really really bad "shers".(Now this is a new one) Its good for this campus to shed the eternal worry of something or the other, once in a while and enjoy. But can never enjoy as much as the care free and the We-Are-Invincible days of the undergrad. The burden of growing up and the responsibilities thereof.
Sorry cant keep out the routine complaints about life and stuff.
posted by Pankaj Jain @ 12:47 PM
6 Comments:
..and you of course were having a hearty laugh from your high-seat, on this rat race.
Hagga kaunsa offer le raha hai finally? Citibank?
haan woh citibank le raha hai.
koi laugh nahin I have done all this and painful it is. pkg inflating and media publicity really sucks, the press reported everybody will be plced by saturday. and the slot 2 starts on next wednesday. the remaining will be bugged by friends and family about the delay now.
I know all this very well yaar.. last one to be placed in our batch :-)
This year is better than last year kya? In the term of intl offers?
oh haan i forgot that.
foreign offers are more thats true. pkgs are better. just the total numbers are lower.
"Job means you wont like it PERIOD."
The concurrency is just amazing PJ.
They are passive. Dictated.
A sort of slavery, which can only produce ghodas
Nandu too, is bent on a start up, I'm joining him lately after showing some really risk averse attitude....
Atleast in India, it is the right time to make money this way
Guess, attitude is more important here than the idea (which we dont yet have .. ofcourse)
DRS yeh badhiya hai.... I just need some financial security before taking the plunge. All one need is the courage. India is rocking right now. opportunities everywhere. U will sure get an idea.
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