Siri was looking intently at the screen of her laptop when suddenly she felt her eyes blur and head spin. She looked away from the screen and tried to concentrate on the view outside the window. Disappointed looking at the concrete jungle outside, she got up from her place and went to cafeteria. After picking up a coffee and settling down at one of the tables, she started thinking what had happened to her. She realized she had not slept properly since the past few months and felt depressed about the way her life turned out to be. She dozed of into a deep slumber trying to compose herself.
"Ammaaa! Ammaaa! I am getting delayed. Please make it fast." shouted Siri at her mother worried she might be late to office on the first day. She is super excited as it is her joining day at her first job. Her parents did not mind all the mess she has been creating since morning feeling happy that they could give their daughter the life she dreamed of. Between all the excitement, Siri started to office. Her dad made sure to call the driver and send her in the car to avoid any confusion and had given him a 100 instructions before finally allowing the car to move.
Siri felt lost seated at the grand reception watching unknown faces and probing glares around her. Her friends from college along with whom she got selected through campus recruitment are yet to arrive. HR asked her to wait till they come to initiate the joining process. Finally, when Siri saw her friends entering the reception area, she felt like jumping up and hugging them. She composed herself and greeted them with a Hi. Finally, the HR took them to a conference room and told them to wait and make themselves comfortable. The three of them were so tensed and lost that they could not even initiate a discussion between themselves. All the excitement that Siri had till then got converted to a kind of confusion with fear and to overcome the same, She started of a conversation with her friends. They were so engrossed in their own banter that they hardly noticed a person entering the room and waiting to get their attention. Suddenly, when they saw him standing over there, the three jumped out of their chairs and cursed themselves for having got so involved in their own banter. The person introduced himself as their PM and told them he would speak with them individually before taking them into his project. Siri felt her knees tremble with trepidation and irritation and thought one more interview, ahhhhhhh! Finally Siri and one of her friend got selected and other friend had been told that she would be sent to another project. Unaware of the nightmare ahead, Siri felt elated and exited that she got into one of the best groups of the company on the first day itself.
Mam! Mam! R u alright? Hpw r u feeling? Siri woke up from her sleep and realized she had slept lying her head on the table in the cafeteria itself. She cursed herself and muttered an excuse and rushed back to her seat just in time for the status update call. Sure as hell, the call went bad as she wasn't prepared for the same. She wanted to hit and blast herself for having dozed of into sleep when she had this important call to prepare for. This was the second time this happened and the Senior Manager was clearly irritated and indirectly pointed her out saying she is careless and is not bothered about the meeting. Siri tried desperately to control her tears and felt it was better that she has taken this call from a conference room and not from her desk. She did not want her team to see her weak fearing they might not listen to her after that.
To be continued..................
Siri felt lost seated at the grand reception watching unknown faces and probing glares around her. Her friends from college along with whom she got selected through campus recruitment are yet to arrive. HR asked her to wait till they come to initiate the joining process. Finally, when Siri saw her friends entering the reception area, she felt like jumping up and hugging them. She composed herself and greeted them with a Hi. Finally, the HR took them to a conference room and told them to wait and make themselves comfortable. The three of them were so tensed and lost that they could not even initiate a discussion between themselves. All the excitement that Siri had till then got converted to a kind of confusion with fear and to overcome the same, She started of a conversation with her friends. They were so engrossed in their own banter that they hardly noticed a person entering the room and waiting to get their attention. Suddenly, when they saw him standing over there, the three jumped out of their chairs and cursed themselves for having got so involved in their own banter. The person introduced himself as their PM and told them he would speak with them individually before taking them into his project. Siri felt her knees tremble with trepidation and irritation and thought one more interview, ahhhhhhh! Finally Siri and one of her friend got selected and other friend had been told that she would be sent to another project. Unaware of the nightmare ahead, Siri felt elated and exited that she got into one of the best groups of the company on the first day itself.
To be continued..................
