Boredom finally seems to have caught up with me BIG time. After having successfully evaded writing on my blog for nearly two months I am back again. I attribute this (hopefully) successful return to my future employer, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). They have been rather kind in allowing me a full 3 month sabbatical from my yet to be started professional career after completing my engineering. The long wait for my induction into the company is starting to take a rather tragic turn by each passing day. They have not only succeeded in keeping us off their pay rolls for a good amount of time but also reinstated our faith in the fact as to how vulnerable we are. In these dirty times of the economic slowdown, nobody wants to risk joining a company which may fire you after some time or may just go bust. It is always better to be safe than sorry. But then I believe at the end of the day it only depends on your appetite for the amount of risk you are willing to take. No matter which company you decide to join or work for, you can never afford to sit on your bum and relax.
The pink-slip season for most of the companies has already started. There has been plenty of news of tech companies ranging from Wipro who recently showed the door to 1000 employees to Satyam which fired 400 employees. Though it is termed as a “routine annual exercise” by most of these companies, the fact that the US slowdown seems to be hitting these companies hard cannot be denied. I believe every industry seems to have its share of ups and downs but it does not seem to be a particularly pleasant period, for thousands of individuals like me who are waiting to join their respective companies.
As for me, I am only trying my best to keep my mind off such things and utilizing this period to the best of my abilities i.e. by sleeping, eating and watching movies ;-)
Rest later
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