Hello everyone. It feels really nice to write a post. Its been eons since my last post and my blog has virtually died!! So this is one of my efforts to revive a dying blog. So whats this post goin to be about?? Except for the name nothing is goin to be about japanese unlike the previous post. So what does tht word mean?? Shikataka – nai means “NO WAY OUT” and this post is all about hows theres no way out currently for me a.k.a How my corporate journey is. Life was goin lazy after my college ended. sleep late, wake up late. Play games, watch movies, Play cricket in the evening, hang out with the likes of ganijuu, raghuveer, manoj, lax, vichu, arvind to name a few. Life i thought was goin too lazy and started becomin boring. I wished they would give my doj asap and start up the new phase of my life. Then a email came sayin that they will start off with our e learnin modules. Those were the days when we were playin cricket in SCG(read as Somasundarum cricket ground) almost every alternate day(the other days i had my nihongo class). It used to be loads of fun(for more info read laxmans or ganeshs blog or wait for more details in my forthcoming posts(dont knw when)). One fine evening after i reached home from our rigorous cricket shcedule i saw a mail sayin that there was a Software engineering course a Roger pressman series. I went in to see the contents. It was more than what we did in our semester course and the time duration was(any guesses????) around a week . We had to learn 20 chapters and test for each chapter.
There was this quote which given by Roger pressman in one of the chapters “The managers always find ways to work out a time line which is highly impossible to stick to and ask to devleopers to adhere to them”. I had a hearty laugh and later realised as to how true those words were. A couple of days went, i found time to do the SE series amidst the busy lazy schedule i had and I wasnt goin anywhere. Deadlines were nearin and something had to be done.
“If there is a system, there are ways to circumvent the system”, true to this we managed to complete the course with a day to spare. There was a lull for a cpl of days. There is a tamil saying “puyaluku min amaithi”. A puyal or cyclone was in waiting. And it came as a next mail. This was a course on C, DBMS and OOAD. With again a week to go. The more funny part was, we had been given our DOj with entersected with the days of course completion. After again findin ways to circumvent the system and a bit of extensions we finished our e-learning modules. In mean time our induction started.
The best way to sum up my first 3 days of induction was “Nice food and blood in ears”. Then started the actual training. The first big bomb we had was “9 hours of trainin 6 days a week”. I felt like from fire to fryin pan. It was like MSEC extension. The next thing was 4 days a week pakka formals with tie. Ppl who knw me well must be knwin the fact as to how much i hate wearing formals and ithu mela tie kattanum na thangala. Ippove eppadi na what next??
The first day of trainin we were said we will be trained on .Net and nihongo(We flunked badly in our exams, so re training). In .net we were supposed to clear 2 MS certifications. As far as japanese was concerned one of the PMs came and asked the concerns. Our great Raghavendran and Hari said language barrier was one of the greatest barrier and we all nodded our heads. The PM noted our concerns and went. The trainin began as usual. We were first taught c# and a new indian sensei came. We recieved our MS books and to my utter shock, while our training was to focus on improvin the general programmin and familiarizing with programin( which i didnt find much of a task since i am B.E CSE lols), the certification required an in depth handling of concepts and it was prescribed for guys havin atleast 2 yrs of programming exp which none of us had. The japanese trainin started in full flow. We had to first revise the level 4 portions finish it by end of august or before that and start off with level 3. We were required to take level 3 exams by the end of december. And thus started our training. I start at home by 7 45 in the morning and get home by 7. When we were complainin about our schedules our japanese sensei told “SHIKATAKA NAI” and thats what its. There is truly no way out rather than facing it and finishin it successfully. Life in corporate is not sweet. Its tough and demanding. Chumma va kaasu kudukaran??!!! Till my next post. Adieu
Krishna – thedevilzadvocate
P.S: There will be lots of typos and grammatical mistakes. Pls bear with me.
I feel this is not one of my best written posts given the amount of time i dedicated to this post. So if u feel its below par u gotta manage with it!!
