Everyone is a fresher sometime or the other in his/her career ; I do not clearly remeber my days, Sigh ! they were so long back !! But now in my current tenure i have had some interesting conversations with the freshers who either joined my team or i crossed paths with in some course of work ! Here goes.... Dont laugh ! they are not dumb people. They are the future of my company :)
Fresher( joined only about 2 weeks) : Sir, In the Leave system, It is not showing any data for me, we dont have Sick leaves ?
Me: Is it ? I am not sure, probably they havent updated the system yet for you, check with HR.
Fresher( Some time later in the day): Sir, i checked with them, they say it will be updated only next week.
Me: Great ! so problem solved ? Chill !
Fresher: Sir, What should i do if i have to fall sick on this friday ? Before they update the systems?
Me: I assume you want to take a leave on friday ; And to take a leave you dont have to actually fall sick everytime ok ?
[For the super intelligent people who read this, Sick/Casual leave are not differentiated in our leave policy]
Fresher: Santosh, you are a Manager right?
Me: I guess so ! you want to double check ?
Fresher: No, I just wanted to know what work you do.
Me: Ah ! Now that really makes me think
Fresher: Whenever you are on your seat, you have Outlook Or Excel or Powerpoint open on your laptop, Whenever you are not on your seat you are either talking to someone or on phone conference calls. Is this work ?
Me: Please dont go tell all this to my manager ok ? :-)
Fresher: When do you work?
Me: Oye ! this is my work yaar !
Fresher: Very simple no?
I am still wondering if he was genuinely asking out of curiosity and surprice or was being sarcastic !
I got sick of accepting awards without writing anyting ; So this post is to Thank Jyoti for all the awards given to an undeserving blogger :-)
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7 comments:
awwww... how sweet!!! :-)
sick/casual leave is not differentiated in any company na... wonder long the freshers will take to realise that :P
the second convo could have happened with ur niece too :D
Haha Freshers are super fun:D
(Wonder if my senior colleagues said the same thing about me when I was a fresher!:D)
LOL. Well I sympathize with the 2nd one. Maybe he was just curious and listened those stories about managers not working.. :)
He'll realize once he is one or if he is one. :D
@ Imps' Mom : Hey watch out for my next amusing conversation update. Coming Soon :o)
@ Eye : Are you sure they dont say thing for you now ? :o)
@ Sea :Yes Managers not working are only stories. FICTIONAL stories :o)
guess freshers can get real mean and cruel, just like kindergarten kids.. they can always hide behind their "poor new li'l thing, no.." veneer. :|
n hey, congrats on the award!! n c'mon.. where's ur long practiced award speech? ;)
@ Usha : Hey, you know i ll give that speech only when the award comes from you ! Meano ! :o)
LOL
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