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xPression Team, TCS, the best team ever!
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I’m here to share my journey of one year in TCS not to mock anybody.
‘It was a roller-costar ride’ is the best way to describe my journey of one successful year in TCS in a single sentence. I need not explicitly justify it because I bet you will agree with me once you read it. It was really an astounding start to the career, rather enjoyable, in the form of ILP. Instead of saying that we learnt a lot of technology there, I should probably say that we enjoyed as much as we can. It may be because of the reasons that we were not completely out of the college mood and pictured in our head that we would seldom have fun after we enter in projects, which has proven to be otherwise so far, but undoubtedly my home was just a stone’s throw away from office.
After a dramatic interview with PL Ananth and BULL Uma, latter didn’t speak a word though, I’ll tell you what does BULL mean at the end, I was allocated to ‘Upgrade’ Project in xPression, a technology which has nothing to do with .net, upon which I was trained before; maybe it’s too ambitious to be in project of my wish as a fresher I thought. I was told xPression technology as one of the market-booms in the near future; I didn’t comprehend the sarcasm of it at that time.
Eventually within few days I got easily acquainted to amicable ambience created by my team. It was great working in Upgrade and especially with Ananth who is easily admirable for his technical acumen combined with fabric of leadership qualities, need not consider this as flattery and certainly no pun intended. As I was nascent to the technology, didn’t work much! . It was always fun-at-work with kishore, with all inane jokes and Business Analyst of Upgrade Ramya Devi, that’s how I call her, not because she pops up at least 150 times a day and goes to Ananth’s place for her doubts, not because she drinks gallons of water with an interval of every 5 mins(we know water is tasteless and yet what a taste she has! , the only reason that I can depict is that she would have gone to doctor and the doc would have told “ Drink fifteen litres of water per week” and she should have heard fifteen as fifty) but because of her excitement she carries for the work she does no matter whether its silly or serious. It was pleasant working with Siva who is clearly a silent Tech-Savvy and Divya with her child like nature though I consider her to be my sister.
Later, I was moved to Project named LIRE, don’t ask me what the pronunciation is, (team lead Ramya pronounces that as ‘liar’ and its your wish) where we have Yoga and Maha. I believe we can count number of stars in the sky someday but can never count how many girls he gawks at in a day .On the other hand, I hope oxford dictionary would take up ‘Maha’ as synonym for the word ‘Chatter-box’, nevertheless, the decibel level of our cubicles have been considerably truncated after Maha left the team. To add a bit more about her, while Brett Lee bowls at 155 kmph, Maha speaks at a rate of 160kmph. As days went by and when I was just about to feel that the work was redundant and boring, certainly no offense, I was allocated to ENLG-AUL5.
Days in ENLG-AUL5 about a month are the busiest days of my life. I was fully occupied, at the edge of the seat most of the time, rush of adrenaline creeps up across the spine when it becomes 6pm with daily deliverables and thrilling mails and earned a lot of exposure too. I’ll tel you what kind of exposure as I go along. Most importantly, this is the time where I found my ‘guru’ Uma in xPression and over a period of time who became my student in Social networking. Well, if I have to speak about her I should probably write a separate blog. She’s a lady who unquestionably has that X-factor within her and fair amount of eccentricity combined with a ‘girl-next-door’ character, which is in fact remarkable to work with. She fancies herself to be a typist for she spent around 15 useless months of training in some dumb typing institution, which did cost me couple of defects, Uma don’t feel bad as if I have revealed a secret, everybody knows it. FYI, she types a rate of 170kmph. Later, Santhi joined the party in the form of AUL5-IFPP and we became ‘The Invincible Trio’. You are such a fool if you don’t understand my sarcasm. As the name ‘escalation’ became famous for AUL5 team, the name ‘Alien’ became famous for Santhi, honestly don’t know the reason, it’s for her face? Probably not. May be some other reasons. Never mind! Anyways the bond ‘AUL5 family’ keeps us together and it goes on.
After a few days I had a chance to work in Life Phase-II with Curlin, the most innocent lady in the team. Guys, come on, I mean it this time. I’m really unaware of how much profit she makes to AXA but certainly contributes good amount of profit to mentho plus Balm Company, she haves it all the time with her. Gradually my work-burden reduced.
Best part is that this team is expanding in size just akin to our universe as explained in the Big Bang Theory; I’m not talking about the sitcom folks! with the inclusion of two peculiar freshers Madhumitha and Dinesh. I never believed when my mom said “Certain Sadhus and powerful people live long lives without eating food”. Now I’m a strong believer of that after seeing Madhumitha who only feeds on liquid food. We know people who are obsessed and addicted of speaking over phone with their boyfriend/girlfriend but Dinesh is the guy, probably one and only one, on the earth who is obsessed of speaking with customer care services of all businesses. Trust me!
Coming back to my journey, now, they say I’m allocated to Books & Records, well anyway, who the hell cares. At the moment I’m as free as a bird writing the last sentence of my blog. That’s all folks!! Oops, did I forget something? Oh yes I almost did. BULL stands for ‘Back Up Lead of Lights-on’, certainly not what you thought.
Phew!! I’m done. Now, Out of sight!!
