as the title suggests, my campus job opportunities can be made into a blockbuster movie
( starring ME, of course ;) ) .. even shakespeare would've been proud of the twisty plot of the saga..
where to begin.. ok here goes.................
part 1, scene 1 : Status Quo7th sem, this cool guy named sudhar, with high hopes, dreams and ambitions went to meet the placement apisar ( henceforth he shall be called as pongalsamy or koodhi). at this point of time thru bad-luck or bad-correction, he and a coupla other guys had a single paper backlog ( decent name for arrear!) mr.pongal told them not to worry, he will do his best, speak to company hr's.... blah blah blah and a whole lotta other shit !
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part 1, scene 2 : Utopiaglad tat the pongal is backing them, they happily went and started preparing.. but nothing materialized. company after company came and went, came again, went again.. no chance of job in site ! again we approached mr.pongal .he told them tat company hr's were adamant.. he couldnt do anything.. his hand were tied .. ( it was a blatant lie !! )
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part 2 : the awakening !Now, it came to our notice, tat other colleges as part of the same process were allowing students with 2 and even 3 arrears to attend and get placed !! very angry by this fact, we approached koodhi.. he scolded many of us, and told us tat for our marks we didn't deserve anything, and tat college reputation will b at stake. we were resigned to our fate and deeply saddened and left the place!
(anecdote: as it so happened, 4 ppl were of my college were caught in answer paper scam, the prinicpal appeared on live tv and had to meet chancellor of university... subsequently a few months later, our AICTE approval was cancelled and a riot took place in college campus.. labs were trashed, college was closed down.. SO the whole "college reputation" argument of Pongal goes right out of the window)
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part 3 : He who Must Not Be Named a.k.a Pongalsamy !the rest of the 8th semester continued in this manner. we hated tat bastard from the bottom of our souls. thought no less talented or % wise than our friends, we were jobless and had to face lot of pressure from home & elsewhere. we had already started to look at off-campus opportunities. then results came. college days got over ! to show our anger we created communties of hatred against tat pongalsamy ( which is progressing well!).. i must point out tat in this whole saga, out I.T department were least helpful, doing their bit in tormenting us.. giving us less internal marks, levying fines and so on..
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part 4 : PAYDIRT !as if to say what pongalsamy did to us was wrong, we were proved right!
remember tat gang of ppl who went and spoke to him.. well, it so happens tat.
1 of them got a job in Siemens, 1 in Alcatel , 1 in Mahindra-BT ( maybe Microsoft in the pipeline).. and this after just a month on the job market.! 3 more are sure to get placed in the coming month ( my best wishes to them..). well, notice that all r MNC's. in hindsight, am glad we did not get placed in campus. i know; this sounds ironic, but tatz the naked truth !!!!!!
Grand Finale :
well, i leave u to judge what happened to urselves.. the guy didn't even care a nickel for our careers ! there was a lot more that Mr.Pongalsamy said.. too much to type.. some extracts include :-
1. unakellam edhuku s/w job = why s/w job for you ?
( he said this to a core I.T guy with above 70% aggregate!)
2. U.S la poi nee enna pannuvey. perukuviya ? = what will u do in U.S. sweeper job?
3. BPO is best for you. for u thatz more than enough !
4. ICICI bank is there for ppl with arrears like you ( he said dis in a derogatory manner!)
plz do leave behind ur comments on this.. i insist on a feedback !
signing off now.. adios amigos
Sudhar - THE ONE !
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