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                                                These folks enter the pantry (an area which is 1/16^th of the floor where the coffee/tea vending machines are kept along with fewer cookies to be munched) after a royal march. They grab a mug out of the lot; wash it three or four times to ensure at most cleanliness and then finally place it underneath the machine’s outlet to get the mugs filled in with their favorite drink (lemon tea, obviously as these guys are very diet conscious (I feel like putting my hands into my mouth and vomit out when I say this as I am one guy who have seen them eating pizzas like monsters) and where would their conscience go when they eat all the junkies?). They gulp the liquid taking their own time which would accompany “the talk of the town” topics, sports, cinema and fashion that raises their decibels beyond other’s temperament.

                                                Their next agenda after the tea break would be a smoke break. There will be places called “Smoking Designated Zones” inside almost all the IT parks. To everybody’s astonishment, there will always be few ladies engulfed inside these zones and that is when I understood the literal meaning of the saying, “We women are always equal to men”. The first time I saw a woman smoke, I was literally taken a back and was very panicky considering the society’s pity plight (I do not want to talk much on that, though). I learnt at a later point in time that it is quite predominant that women smoke here.

                                                After all these are done, they get to their seats back reluctantly and open their outlooks to see if they have got some new mails. They reply a few back, ignore a few, skim through a few and delete a few without even reading. By the time they do all these stuffs they would be half an hour short of their own lunch break timings. They bridge this gap skimming through all possible newspapers that exists on earth. As soon as the hour hand or the minute hand in the watch reaches their intended destinations, they start traveling on foot as a team to the nearby restaurants or their cafeterias. I tell you IT guys experiment a lot on foods. You can never see the same group of people on the same restaurants that were visited by them previously.

                                                They return to their seats after a very lengthy lunch breaks which can often go up to two or three hours. One default window that will be kept opened in almost all IT employees’ desk would be the Outlook window which reflects all the mails from their mail boxes. After done with lunch, they open this window to check if something had really come up which helps them while their time away. After a minimal time, people would gather up in the pantry to have a cup of coffee which would put an end to all their yawning. Post their coffee break they would be left with an hour or two before they call it a day. This time would be used to take any sorts of printouts, attending calls, booking tickets, checking bank balances and finally reporting or testing or developing if at all they do not have anything to do with the former list of activities.

                                                The wait for the clock to tick five times would predominantly continue right from the morning but even increases after quarter past four. As soon as the hands of the clocks get arranged in such a way that the short hand stands at five and the longer hand stands at twelve, they pack the bags in a jiffy and run towards the lifts as if they are going to catch a train that is about to depart in a minute or two. Lift being the only mode of vertical transit as average heights of the IT companies would be 8 or 9 floors; you can see a lot of cursing lips when the lifts do not come handy. Certain people in the group would believe that pressing the lift navigation buttons on the floors would help the lift travel faster and would keep pressing it umpteen times possible.

                                                Pushing and Pressing others people would manage a place inside the lift. They land at the basement parking zones and would start home on their own vehicles polluting the atmosphere as possible as they can. Those going by bus have to literally fight for their entry and egress as well off the bus. They reach homes in an hour or two depending on the day’s traffic and would be spotted at the local tiffin shops eating awfully putting their whole hand inside their mouths. Post their dinner, the day ends with their choice of drink.

                                               

                                   WHEN I WRITE THIS DO NOT TAKE ME AS THE ANTONYM OF WHAT IS MENTIONED ON ALL THE PREVIOUS POSTS,

                                    “I AM ONE IN A MILLION”, WHO IS NOT AS PROUD AS OTHERS WHEN I SAY I AM A CORPORATE OF A KIND.

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                                    The opposite sex as well contributes equally to the shame. A majority of the guys try and be professional but there are still a lot of people who have got a repulsive look. Most of the IT companies stick to this chart; on weekdays it is full formals and on Friday is it business casuals, but what actually happens is people take it for granted. I hardly see a handful of people sticking on to the chart. There are always the rule-breakers more than the rule-followers, which is really pathetic. Men here are with a mentality that a rule is meant to be broken and not to be followed which is really sympathetic that their twenty odd educational foundations did not come handy even once when their thought process started working so.

                                    Men come in “formally” informal attire during the weekdays. Trust me; I have seen men coming in vintage tees and rugged jean on many Monday mornings which arouse a kind of annoyance for people who always love to stick by the company norms. The first time I saw people coming in here like this I thought they had their own difficulties dressing up themselves formally and that I should not come to a consensus at the very first sight. But to my astonishment this habit of dressing themselves up shabbily kept repeating like a sinusoidal wave and the very impression I had on the IT guys went goofing on the streets. I have seen guys turning to offices up with torn jean, torn tees, low hip jean, a baggy and what not. People wear anything and everything.

                                    When this is the case with the rule-breakers, there are a handful of people who mess with dressings up despite turning to offices up on pure formal dressings. People dress themselves formally but with an untidy shirt and trousers. You can see wrinkles running all round the cross surface area of the shirt and trousers as well. I still wonder the fact that people are well off in terms of their pecuniary aspects but still hesitate to get their dresses well pressed paying a very meager amount.

                                    Dressing themselves up as mentioned above, these people enter the premises showing off with a head set on their ears and iphones on their pockets. Jotting down the above point I remember one another worst behavior of these people i.e., using headsets and headphones while at travel or while at road. As everybody know Bangalore is also known for its traffic on road in spite of this people wear headphones and headsets while crossing road and while driving which reflects sheer stupidity.

                                    With respect to above context I would like to quote a real time incident reluctantly. I am not happy writing this but still this is to create an awareness amongst the readers (?!?!) the ill effect of wearing a headset on transit. This incident happened a month back that took us back to a greater extent. I with two of my friends started for office late 10.30 in the morning and was walking towards the bus stop having a little chat. Few yards from what we walked saw a humongous crowd, near the railway track that ran parallel to the place we resided and so it is a usual habit of the people to walk along the track that by-passed the roads which was time saving. We found a beheaded head on the track and the body a few meters apart. A lady had walked along the track with her headphones on and she without noticing the train attempted to cross the track and the headphones produced higher decibels than that of the train’s and so she could not sense the train coming and so she had to rest in peace.

                                    People enter the offices sharp eleven which is already two hours past their actual in time taking lifts to their respective floors in an unruly fashion.  They enter the floor swiping their cards in and take their respective chairs which sometime would be tied to the cabins so as to avoid a transposition. People are very reluctant to lend their chairs to others even in case of emergencies. By the time they switch their system/laptop on and start checking mails, you can find one or two fellow men near the cabin offering a kind invite for their coffee break. I seriously cannot understand the necessity of a coffee break for somebody who has come late by two hours and who has come just ten minutes back.

In nutshell,

            “PEOPLE PRETEND TO WORK AND THE COMPANIES PRETEND TO PAY”

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                        Hi people, talking a lot about things that revolve around me and my friends, I decided to talk something so general in this post that would arouse everybody’s interest as not in the case of previous posts. I thought I needed a break from all these routine topics and so decided to take up a topic that majority of the people could easily relate themselves with. Deciding to go conventional, I wanted to end my long wish run by the form of this post. Yes, I was very keen in bringing it to your attention of how professional the so called “CORPORATES” of Bangalore behave.

                        This post is purely based on my observations for the past few days which desperately demanded this kind of awareness amongst us so as to check if we are really that “CORPORATES” and do we really deserve to be called one.

                       This post is an outcome of my true understandings about the term “professional” that was dealt with during my college reign and please do not take it too personal if at all this is going to hurt your conscience. As the saying goes, “To Err is Human”, so do I and absolutely welcome any corrections if at all anybody feel that I am wrong at any point in time.

“CORPORATES”-ARE WE REALLY WORTH BEING CALLED SO?

                        The college I was into was round the clock concentrating on students being so professional to the college that would help them adapt easily to the metamorphosis and so the then trend in the college developed in me a picture that a professional corporate is one who is very formally dressed with their cuff buttons on, who is clean shaved, who wears a decent buckled belt and wears clean polished shoes. Having kept this picture in mind, I came to Bangalore where my professional career started and found the very scenario contradicting a lot of what my picture depicted and found the word “CORPORATES” to be a trimmed form of the word “CORPORATION”.  Yes, people here do behave like people who work for corporations with least sincerity and austerity.

                        The day for the locale corporate starts at 9 in the morning and that is when they start getting themselves ready for the office. Getting dressed appropriately (would be dealt with at a later part of the post) these guys step out of the house to nearby bus stops. Once the bus comes to the bus bay, even without minding others nearby, they start heading (running like they had seen a bus for the first time in their lives) towards the bus’ entrance even stamping, pushing, and pulling the neighbors in the bus stop.  When this is the case with the bus-goers, many a people choose car as a medium of transit. This scenario would be the worst possible picture in the town and would demand tear in your eyes. I tell you, the path would just be 2 feet wide and still ten to fifteen cars would compete to get through first which would likely cause a humungous traffic which causes the locomotives to be stagnant for nearly an hour or even greater than that. Once I got struck in the traffic where I waited for a couple of hours reason for which was this narrow path where in everybody competed to go first. These Corporates are the largest contributors of highly unpredictable traffic in the city which demands a highly time conscious planning in case somebody goes out. I seriously do not understand the fact that their 18+ years of education did not contribute even the slightest of their common senses.

                        The Dictionary definition of dressing goes so: “To put on enough clothes covering oneself”. The term “enough” is often misinterpreted here. The dressing of people would become decent enough when this term “Enough” goes objective rather subjective. Anything you wear in Bangalore becomes trendy and fashionable and no matter how much of dress you wear. Ladies in IT go westernized as far as dressing is concerned. They dress themselves in all possible styles but the amount of body parts left uncovered would always be 40%. Majority of girls’ dresses in Bangalore starts from the point of intersection of the line which runs perpendicularly facing the ground for the next ten centimeters which many a times would remind me of their poor parents who would never ever imagined that their daughters would even think of wearing those. It is formals between Monday and Thursday and casuals on Friday and this is how most of the companies work. Even during the peak weekdays women here prefer wearing sleeveless, denim, miniskirts and tight tees and Friday gets even more worsen. On Friday it is like a holiday to their shame. At least 80% of the women here come half exposed. The fact is that there are only a handful of people who come properly and tidily dressed. But ad mist the BRIGHT, the DARK always dominates.

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