Its been 3 days and I am glad to say that I have survived well. Yahoo! India decided to adopt me for a summer and no hell broke loose over them (as yet!) God bless them :)So now begins the first corporate experience of my life. It feels weird (Okay, lemme admit everything is mostly 'wonderful' or 'weird' for me...every new experience being weird and its pleasant repetition being wonderful, once in a while there are also these 'wretched' moments, but its wonderful to be able to describe life in 3 Ws :P )
Okay so this is where I become my immodest self and begin to show off.
The office is at Andheri MIDC. Crappy area if you ask me. Too much travel from my place. But then again, my place is far from almost every other place on the planet with the sole exception of Mulund :P
But the office is damn cute. Pretty neat. The decor plays with the basic theme of Yahoo! Purple giving this place a vibrant look. Hierarchy in ranks is almost invisible in the seating arrangement..an example of this being me and the other intern are to the right and left of my boss!! The only downside to this being my restricted usage of Gtalk during office hours. Not that it is blocked, and one can always find me online all day long, but a little loyalty must be shown towards that one benevolent company who employed you during recession na?;) But otherwise, there is full on freedom in terms of work...the boss is really keen on us learning new stuff on the job and delegates responsibility only after our approval. He's actually a sweetheart. One of those really goodlooking Gujju guys who happen to be good-natured too. (No, I am not typing this coz he's looking at my laptop screen :P)
Food is good. There is this sweet canteen boy Tarun (who btw has 3 years work-ex here, more than most of the employees) who asks if you need breakfast, juice/tea, snacks more frequently and sweetly than your own mom. More importantly, its all free :) Today I had chicken and I am still burping happily, not that you asked.
Aah! Now the most boring topic..Work! Well thats the best thing about it..its not boring!! Well, today it slightly is..coz my cute boss is out of town and I am jobless. He basically wanted us interns to get acclimatized to the place, the systems and different processes. I read that as a day full of blogging, chatting, making farzi questionnaires and excel sheets and acting impossibly busy doing that :D
Oh! You can even play music loudly..but social decency has prevented yours truly from taking that step..but yeah, the above has been approved..nay, infact suggested by the boss :)
As for me, I am still my lukkhi self albeit for one big difference! Within first 2 days itself I have understood the importance of formal behaviour at workplace, something that my friend Kaustubh has been trying to knock in my teeny-meeny brain for past 2 years :P I still dont quite agree with the strict discpline that he advocates but yeah, I do kinda get that one needs to behave differently at the workplace.
This summer, the concept of 'vacation' has been twisted 180 degrees and I am made to work instead of getting up late, watching movies, having good food and lazying around. Wait a minute, didnt I do just that for a year at MICA? :P This new routine of getting up early, dressing up in formal wear, leaving home on time to be in office on time, spending the day in learning some fundoo stuff and going home tired (err..tired due to travelling, not work) and being served hot dinner by a mother who lovingly thinks that her daughter is the most hard-working employee at Yahoo!, is actually a welcome change from my earlier life :)
I hope I dont get too used to this life coz MICA is awaiting to spoil me all over again. But till then, I am gonna enjoy this till it lasts. I hope it is a 'great learning experience':D
Oh btw, I have:
My own desk (waiting to be personalised)
A new lappie (provided by office)
A direct phone line
A business card (yet to be received)
..Simple perks of being one of the Y!Purple people :D
