A month and a half at office

15th Aug 2008: A month and a half at office

The eventful period with some crazy thing happened during this period. Here you go…

Here at work end, life was also going smoothly as of light work during training period. I’ve made some good friends. Some of them were from IIT whom I’ve met first time during the interview and next time on first day of our orientation in the company.

On that day we reached a little early in the office and in the orientation room there were some other people were also sitting there, all of them were fresher except one, Rohit. About 30-35 yr old, he was experienced and like us he was a new joinee to the company. We were thinking that he’s someone senior from the company only and just sitting there to observe our body language, our behavior or so, someone like a psychologist. After sitting there with us for some time Rohit walked out of the room. The moment he went out a murmur started among us about whom he was. Everyone was citing their opinion and after about a couple of minutes or so he returned with the coffee, and there was a pin drop silence in the room.

After about a minute or so one of us (Prakash) opened his mouth and shot the question.

Prakash: Are you from HR? When orientation is going to start?
Rohit: I don’t know. I’m just like you, the new joinee in the company and waiting for orientation to start.

Prakash: Hahahaha. Don’t tell lie.
Rohit: Arre, why should I lie? It’s mine first day too.

Prakash: Hahaha you must be kidding, the way you were observing us says a lot.
Rohit: Hahaha, what do you expect, cant I look at you guys… fresh ones out from the college, entering the work life.

Prakash: Yes that’s why you were observing our behavior as how we’ll behave in the company in future.
Rohit: What should I say now…


And he walked out of the room. And came back only with a HR personnel, to start orientation. She then tell us to introduce ourselves and the time when Rohit introduced himself, he looked at Prakash’s side and focused on the line "I’m the new joinee here". And that was the time when Prakash’s face was worth watching, and we all were laughing, but being a jolly person he too joined us in our laugh.


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Then after a few days there was some issue regarding our first salary. As HR wasn't taking any action on our request so we all stormed to the COO’s room regarding unacceptability of the condition as we weren't informed about that during our recruitment etc...


With such incidents and meeting new people we didn't even realize how this time has passed, some of us have left while many are still here.
Lets see where life will take us in future.

Generally...

11th Aug 2008

It’s been one month since that discussion with bhaiya. During first week whenever we talked, we weren’t able to discuss anything besides those questions. But after a few days things came back on the track. We started having our normal discussion

Dinner With Bhaiya

July 12,2008: Dinner with Bhaiya

The dinner was a casual one…. He started with normal questions like…

How long we have known each other?
How and when we met?

...…
And then moved to some serious questions like

How long we’ve been dating?
What did we know about each other?
Were we serious or just fooling around?
What did we think about our future? Together or as Individual?

.....

and lots of such questions asking for details about us and our so called "RELATIONSHIP".....

We started to answer the questions in quite comfortable manner but once the cross questioning about seriousness of our relationship started we were lost. We thought that we were pretty serious about our relationship but as the questions started we ended up as confused as we were lost in maze…

After giving us so many questions to think about, bhaiya changed the topic to some other general stuff and about the day before, how we spent it. In the end after dropping bhaiya to home when I was going back to drop Sia to her room we were silent and it was kinda uncomfortable as there was some heaviness due to those unanswered questions.

Meanwhile I dropped her back, and I went to bus stand to purchase the ticket as weekend is ending and I’ve to go back for the job. And hence the most eventful and exciting weekend with one amazing and other confusing day was over.

Someone was patting on the window

its 12th July 2008 morning

Someone was patting on the window... and it was embarrassing situation for us...
Without saying a word we silently moved in the house, told her to sit in the drawing room and he told me to come to other room. The moment I closed the door, he threw away a lot of questions towards me.

......
What the hell is this??
Who is she??
What were you doing here??
What you did yesterday??
Why were you in the car??
Where were you since early morning??
Why didn’t you picked up my call??
......

And before I spoke anything he opened up a shocking new for me…… He said…
"Your dad will reach here in about an hour. In a short while he will know what are you doing these days… Perfect situation where he will know about everything and that too when no one will speak any word… Your actions will speak louder than your words… Great job Pranjal… Great!!!!"

I just shivered with the news...

I pleaded him to not to tell anyone about this, first listen to me as what had happened and then decide as what to do. He agreed to listen to us and then in short I gave him details about everything from her b’day celebration, to our small trips, to our cooking dinner in the kitchen and the power cut at night and finally how come we ended up sleeping in the car. Seeing the mess in two rooms, a little bit dirty kitchen, and clean dishes near sink, no power in the house, he finally believed us (Later I found out that he had been in somewhat similar situation).

He then told Sia to go and change quickly as it was only about half an hour left for my dad to come back. He told me to drop her back to her place and get the bread and milk, and then at gate he told Sia to go and take rest at home and not to make any plans in evening with friends as we will be having dinner together. And there was another shock for me on this statement, as firstly I was not aware that my dad was coming and then now he invited her for dinner with my dad being here.

Ohh God... Dunno whats there in Bhaiya’s mind.... Meri to watt lagne wali hai...
I dropped her back to her place and the moment I came back I found my dad was unloading his bag from the auto rickshaw.

Later during the day I found out that my dad was going to purchase some material for the shop, Jaipur was just one of the stops, and he will be leaving by 4 p.m. train. I was a little bit relieved but was still thinking about what will happen at dinner, why he called her for dinner.