End of the organizing
So today the company from India organized the second round of interviews. It was typical murphy's law "what has to go wrong will go wrong"! The first conference room that I booked was really large and the irony was that only two people were there in it. The next conference room where lunch was going to be served could accomodate only 10. So I guess we all got very cosy:-)
My interview went off well. There was no technical so you can never judge these things. Lets see how things go. I'm not too hot about working at tambaram though. I mean I don't feel like travelling to back of beyond to work. But if thats the way God has planned for it then that's how it will be. I know that getting office space in numgambakkam is quite tough and I would like to work there! Pittsburgh is nice and America is interesting but J1 waiver needs to happen too:-)
One great learning experience of this whole setting up thing was that it's not easy to please everyone. I mean there were people who were making comments like "What so many veg pizzas??". "What no mountain dew??", "hey priyanka couldn't you have ordered samosas??". I mean if it was under my control would I have not done it. So at times I retorted "Great I'll get that if you'll pay for it". And then there was silence.
I lost my temper a couple of times and then me being me apologized to all the folks who I screamed at.....Ahhhhhhhhh...it was maddening. I wonder how my mum manages the stream of guests who keep coming home there. She's always smiling and sweet. Of course she cribs to us. But she is a born event manager. She actually manages to please everyone. I think that's an art. It's never easy to organize something involving more than two people and expect everyone to be happy. Whoever said all these things were easy?? It's a job in itself.
My interview went off well. There was no technical so you can never judge these things. Lets see how things go. I'm not too hot about working at tambaram though. I mean I don't feel like travelling to back of beyond to work. But if thats the way God has planned for it then that's how it will be. I know that getting office space in numgambakkam is quite tough and I would like to work there! Pittsburgh is nice and America is interesting but J1 waiver needs to happen too:-)
One great learning experience of this whole setting up thing was that it's not easy to please everyone. I mean there were people who were making comments like "What so many veg pizzas??". "What no mountain dew??", "hey priyanka couldn't you have ordered samosas??". I mean if it was under my control would I have not done it. So at times I retorted "Great I'll get that if you'll pay for it". And then there was silence.
I lost my temper a couple of times and then me being me apologized to all the folks who I screamed at.....Ahhhhhhhhh...it was maddening. I wonder how my mum manages the stream of guests who keep coming home there. She's always smiling and sweet. Of course she cribs to us. But she is a born event manager. She actually manages to please everyone. I think that's an art. It's never easy to organize something involving more than two people and expect everyone to be happy. Whoever said all these things were easy?? It's a job in itself.
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