Brakes on The road to Success:

I really feel like the dog in the pic now :-( .. Am in such a HUGE mess

First day and the first taste of problem! And that too which demanded me to take a return cab from check in to no where. I was at check in counter when, I found out that I need to have ECNR status updated before I could fly to Emirates.

This was more of shock to me since; I had travelled USA and came back only last year without issues. So I was lost at the right time to take off and had to say bye- bye to my perspective batch mates … What a tragedy and what a wrong way to make a start for the journey towards my MBA degree!!

The next 3 hours were the most grueling one in recent times since I was under the fear that I have been los t in NO MAN’s land. Had to tussle with the greedy bunches of agents at Emigration office, getting a ticket for Dubai ; filtering out the possibilities based on cost and time of arrival and arranging for pick up at Dubai International Airport.
Now, as I take some time off watching the rains splashing across the streets of Mumbai, there is only one thought rocking me on and on. This was the most disliked way to start something but I can’t help this. I am sure whatever happened today was scripted by GOD to give me lesson even before I plunge into the hugely talked about program.

Jai Shri Ram!

Things I will carry as I leave TCS

Skeletons out of the cup board now :-) and just wanted to share these few things which I learnt at TCS

• Dream Big - Make a start atleast .. then tread on to that highly impossible path with commitment and intelligence and surely you will get the things done.

when I joined TCS , we used to listen to lofty aims of TCS being in Global top 10 in 2010, and made a fun out of it... 4 years down the line we are almost close and we stil have 3 more years to go.

• If you find every day as Friday at the office - smell an alarm.

Though fun is integral part of work, never over indulge it ..If you do it dont let your BOSS know it. And working for the amount you are being paid is doing justice to it .If you find most of the people in your team do find week days as an extension of week ends .. it means that either the team is on bench or producing something which doesnt affect/bother hence value much to others.It 's then time to shift to fifth gear and look for other avenues. Keep on Learning. The punch line of TCS had been " a learning organisation " before the "Experience Certainity " one.

• You CAN make a difference to the organisation and if you can't then don't waste your time- If you are serious in bringing some changes even to mamoth organisation, you still can bring it despite your profile !!

Companies like GE already have laid precedent for it. But at TCS, the glass ceiling still exist in some quarters, the leaders should look into this. The MATC should think of associates as human rather than im-mobile entities, who are supposed to be tied to one project/ place and not given the freedom to choose the project or place(TCS boasts of offices in all major cities of India) they want to be.

• Do something for society . We owe a lot to society and nature . I liked TCS mostly for I was proud to say I was from TCS than saying I am from Infosys or IBM since TCS has done a lot for the society and done it in a hush - hush manner.

Be it "Maitree" or "CSR" activities, I enjoyed teaching at a blind school and doing my bit for tigers which face the threat of being wiped out from the Indian map.

• Make LOVE not WAR. This principle holds good at bed room and board room.

I will miss TCS because I got so much love in here and made sweet relationship.

This list is just a glimpse of what all I learnt and want to carry from TCS. 3 and 1/2 years is pretty long time.. and I see a different personality in the mirror from what it was when I was at college.

Thanks TCS for every thing ..

Last day in TCS

Today is the day I had been waiting for when I joined in and when i was pushed to corner by heartless tormentors, who sucked dry my confidence at the slightest chance of it.

But as I leave the orgaisation, it pains me some where to be minus those wonderful friends I made at office and the liberty to play pranks as if we still belonged to an era of college.

I will miss TCS and NORTEL .. but life has to go on and so I am moving forward to jump start my career.