Nothing Official About It

After 15th September, though everyone was looking worried…confused… tensed… and all those similar words, the fact that everyone was trying to be secured for future had created a totally different atmosphere in the office…

Especially after our top brass itself told us to prepare for plan B, the office was completely transformed…

Here lay a bunch of people… in thousands… and all seeking for jobs… it reminded me of college days.

A lot of people were preparing together… all helping each other to get a job.
Information about interviews… referrals were openly exchanged, when someone came back from interview, all others should interview him again to check out the questions… reactions… treatments given and all to gauge the outside industry reaction to our crisis.

It also reminded me of the viva’s during college days. The moment someone came out of the examiner‘s cabin, all sitting outside would surround him to find out about questions… examiners mood… his favorite topics etc etc.

We used to come to office… as usual… but if anyone had any interview call then it was no more a matter of secrecy as it normally is. People would tell all others that they have an interview scheduled… if it is telephonic then sometimes even conference rooms were used for giving interviews.

If someone had to go to attend a face to face interview then people would inform boss and go for attending interview during office time.

It was a totally different office for at least 3 weeks period during which our future was uncertain. No work… the only activities were either study or surf or chitchat at desks or sitting in the canteen… sometimes I used to think whether to go to office or not after getting up…

Alas… gone are those wonderful days now… we are no more “Lehman Brothers” now…. We are “Nomura Holdings”… the work is slowly picking up pace… but the habits of those days are making it a little bit difficult to start work again in full throttle.

It was amazing to observe how people who were working full fledged just three weeks ago became so sluggish…. It is very easy to get spoiled I guess….