8th July, 2013.. I began my Corporate journey..
As most people are before a big day.. I was anxious, nervous
and yep..super excited ofcourse.
So my destination was my office building in Sec-21, Gurgaon
and the cab was to arrive at 6:45 AM I was told.
Got up at 5:30 AM though I felt like I hadn't slept at all
and the first thing that came to my mind after waking up was, "Gee.. so
today is the big day!"
Countered all sorts of questions while getting ready. How
will it be? What will they make us do on the first day? How will my colleagues
be? , and many more such random questions.. My mind was working overtime on
that July morning.
Sharp at 6:45 AM I was ready, all decked up in my corporate
wear and then started the wait for the cab. As it has to be with me on any big
day.. there were some flips and blips on this day too.. like the cab driver's
number was switched off due to some reason and I had to make some frantic calls
to the transport deptt. to locate the driver. It was 6:55 AM and I had almost
believed the cab driver had forgotten the new addition in the cab - me and left
for the journey to office till he called from some different number and told me
he will be at my place in the next 5-7 minutes.
As he said , he was there in time and I boarded the cab
bidding goodbye to mom, dad and bro. Unlike what I had painted the picture in my
mind, the cab was unusually very quite. The people in the cab talked little. Infact
they were quite all the way.. which almost made me doze off by the time I
reached office.
After reaching the office, we were made to wait at the
reception where they gave us the guest cards since we were yet to be issued the
employee access cards. Met some familiar faces there, people whom I had met
earlier in the recruitment drive. Got relaxed a bit and started talking to them
and in some time I was my usual self, talking, chatting and sharing jokes. We had
some light convo with occasional Hellos to the new to the people joining in at
the reception. These people will be my colleagues, co-workers and may be even
good friends in the time to come. The thought made me smile and all curious to
know more about them.
At around 9 I think, we were made to assemble in a room for
the formalities. And I must say, it was loads and loads of paperwork. I have
never signed so many papers in a single day that I did on that day. The HR
people were really helpful and our grad batch of 2013 did steal some light
moments even amidst the serious joining formalities.
At 12:30 PM , we were given a long lunch break by the HR
team and we all made a way to the cafeteria at the 11th Floor to
taste our first corporate meal. After
having our lunch, our mini group of 4 decided to explore the place a bit. We
went to the food court complex of the IT Park our building was situated in,
exploring the different outlets and yeah we had a mini photo session there as
well.
We were back to our room, all 31 of us at 2:00 PM for the
rest of what the HR people had decided for us. There were two short sessions
taken, one where were made to understand the components of our offer letter
(and mind you, our batch was a curious lot, we did have a lot of questions!) and another was taken by a senior official,
which aimed at giving an overview of our organisation, What it did? How it did? And the way it was structured.. Was an interesting session overall.
The day ended at 4:45 PM and we bade goodbye to each other
and went on to board our respective cabs. The first day was power-packed, thrilling and
exciting in its own terms. Life has taken another turn with the job, and it
seems to be a pleasant one till now. I hope the journey turns out to be more
enjoyable and exciting with each passing day.
Pretty lengthy an article I must say.. I am sure half of you
folks might have dozed off by now.
So will hang up here.. Will come with another post on what
happened next. So stay tuned.
