Interview Nightmares

As I mentioned earlier, when I started interviewing for jobs, it was an experience of its own kind. The companies I got calls from were kind of weird. (Yeah yeah.. Apy also acted weird but that's not new. Right??). There was one company that stood out in its weirdness. After I reached the general area of its office, it took me half an hour to spot the actual office. I was a little shocked when I saw the building and immediately made up my mind to not work there. Still, just for the heck of it, I went inside to give. I wanted to see how bad this could get. The size of the office was not more than a 2 Bedroom flat.


Anyways, interviewed with a lady, who was likely, the wife of the flat owner. Then came the HR manager. He seemed to be the brother of that lady. Looked like the complete family was involved in the business. Also, saw some kids running around. It really made me wonder... Where are the other frikkin employees???

It seems they were looking for people who could work in Taiwan.

No offence but... Taiwan??? NO WAYS.. Not Taiwan! Kill me. pliss pliss... Kill me...

Then the HR manager spoke to me. He asked me, if was interested in working for a big company or a mid cap company like theirs which will provide good working experience. I wanted to shout out loud. "MID CAP COMPANY? U CALL THIS A MID CAP COMPANY. THIS COMES IN THE COTTAGE INDUSTRY CATEGORY". Instead, I forced a smile and said, "I would like to work where I get good work. Yep! I lied. I wanted to see where all this was heading and how much they were planning to buy me for.


Later when they made an offer, I had to say this. BLOODY CHEAPOS!!!

There was another interview that I attended standing in an amusement park. Well, that was fun. They kept telling me that there was a lot of noise in the background. I was like... "Yeah... sorry, I cant help!!"I was getting all kinds of weird ideas at that time. (I was wondering how they would feel if they heard people screaming on rides or may be I should sit on a roller coaster and ask them to hold and they could hear me screaming too... :P)

But during this period, I realized how crazy things could actually become or may be it is just my usual luck.

I AM BACKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!

It seems that even after my getting back from Japan, there is no change in the frequency of misadventures in my life. I guess I have been making a lot of excuses till date to not to blog but I need to resume this old habit of mine. Why? cuz I miss it like hell, cuz I miss all those wonderful people with whom I used to interact once upon a time, who left comments asking me about my whereabouts. I didn't reply to any of those but definitely read em all. I missed all you people. Thanks for being there.

So here I start with my series of misadventures that are happening in India now. But first some updates.

When I came back from Japan in September, I was told by my manager that I will be sent back again within a few days which of course was a carrot placed in front of me. I waited for one month and then I realized that I have been moved to a new project, which was totally off my domain. I was upset and that's when I decided to post my resume online. I started getting calls pretty soon. The only mistake that I made was that I did not prepare before posting my Resume. As a result of which, I went to many interviews mostly unprepared. Then one day I got a call from a company X. I gave a telephonic interview and the manager selected me immediately. The kind of package they offered was pretty decent and I almost took it immediately.

Next day, I went to my manager and asked him to release me. I was pretty sure that he would release me almost immediately. He spoke very politely, even congratulated me, and kept smiling. Finally I asked, "When can you release me?"

He politely replied," In 2 months!"

I was thunderstruck. It was like my heart leapt into my mouth. He happened to be such a cool dude. I never expected him to create anykind of trouble in my release. We always thought he was a "gai" (no not gay... gai as in cow). Suddenly, I realized that I m furious, I tried my best to keep my cool during the conversation. I asked him, "Why can't you release me before two months?" He replied," We have a policy of a 2 months notice period".

WTF!!!!! What do u mean by you have a policy????

"But I know others who have been released early. Why are you doing this to me?" I pleaded.(As I heard myself say this, a picture of a Hindi movie actress standing in front of a villian whose about to rape her came into my mind. I shook my head and came back to reality) With this I started giving him all sorts of senti stuff. I reminded him about my slogging in Japan, the appreciations received from the client. The projects, which I got for him. He kept smiling and kept saying that he couldn't help it. I spent one hour giving him all kinds of crap that I could possibly think of but how could I forget, he was a Manager.

At the end of that, I gave him a nasty look and walked away from there. My concern was whether my new company would wait for 2 months or not. Next day, I mailed my manager again asking (read begging) him to release me.

Am I stubborn or AM I STUBBORN?

In addition to that, I also mailed my new employer about the 2 months notice period that my company required me to serve. I was pretty apprehensive about the response. But in any case, I didn't have a choice. At the end of the day, I received a mail from my new employer stating that they were ready to wait for 2 months. I was overwhelmed. At first, I couldn't believe my luck and then I had a smirk on my face thinking about the hard time I was planning to give my current manager.

To be continued...