Company changed, place changed but I remained the same......

Never thought that i will miss CTS. Alas i do. But i do feel better on the last working day of the month when instead of peanuts from cognizant, i get just a little more peanuts .

I still remember sitting in the Academy audi and doing the joining formalities on 7th August 2006. Fresh out of collage and after an amazingly boring one and a half month vacation between collage and job. We knew there was not going to be any surprise in the offer letter they give on the joining day.
" Kausalyawa"... no "Kautalya"..... sorry... my friend interrupetd "Kauti tera naam hi bula raha hai HR madar*". I realised yes thats my Name the poor guy is trying to call so i went up there to take my offer letter which had the same cursed number as all others.There were more thoughts going on in my hollow head than the number of letters in that Offer letter. One very significant was.... "Kauti this is what you get if you mess up badly with your studies, do a degree in Bio Technology and give excuses that you are a Non Bio student."
The food they served before giving that letter was also quite crappy and the nearest analogy i can bring to that food will not be parliamentary. So ,that's how it all started and to be very true as expected the Company was " Meets Few Expectations" . Though i didn't know about this Jargon, Expectations suffixed and prefixed with "Meet" and "Exceed" became part and parcel of life like all others around me.

The days started rolling at CTS and Myself being me, trying to be different ( not sure if I am) I joined a stream which all of my friends rejected at the first site stating whats the value of an engineer in a Technology company who doesn't work on technology and talks business bullshit in from of big B school grads. Well I joined Advanced UI Team at CTS and the time will tell about the appropriateness of the decision.

There had been Frustrating , Very Frustrating and Even more frustrating days at CTS but there were times we had good fun. Before i go ahead, there was not even a single good looking girl in the gropu so we had to Forage in other Business Units or buildings. It sounds more far that it was. The HR bay was just the next floor and it had a good lobby and decent coffee vending machine. I still wonder , is it a policy level decision that most HR bays will have a decent lobby in front of them so that the deadly engineers who are born to make this world an easier place to live will live here in their bench (corporate honeymoon) period.
...................................................................................................................................................to be continued