Welcome to Zombie City...errr...Infosys City. The headquarters of India's fourth richest company. Where I'm exercising my legal brains for the whole of June.
Well, here I am, doing an internship, sitting at a desk, between assignments, wondering what to do... Why not write something on my much-neglected blog?
This place IS Zombie City. On the company buses, not a word is exchanged, no one even LOOKS at another person, everyone's busy staring at the back of the seat in front of them or listening to the radio (on their mobiles) and staring at the back of the seat in front of them... On campus, people walk around without uttering a word even though they may be walking in groups... At their desks, people stare at their computer screens and don't even say 'hello' to their cubicle-mates when they come in..... In their cabins, the directors and the vice-presidents stare into their computer screens and occasionally stretch their neck muscles to break the monotony.... Everyone seems to be too busy even to speak.....
Exceptions: 1. Lunch time - people speak to the person serving lunch so that he serves lunch, and occasionally with someone in order for them to move out of the way, and even more occasionally with someone from their department/cubicle to ask whether they turned their comps off before leaving the desk.... 2. Meetings - the vice-president or director has had enough with the computer screen, so he calls over some of his subordinates to 'discuss' matters, the latter reluctantly break off the magnetic bond between the computer screen and their eyes and enter the sanctum of the superior's office and prepare to get blasted, most probably for not staring at the computer screen long enough.... 3. Brainstorming - An ad hoc congregation of like-minded zombies to thrash out 'issues' for an hour to finally discover their like-mindedness....
Get the general idea?
It's quite a contrast with college, where everyone knows everyone else and people drop whatver they are doing to grab a juicy conversation and bitch about fellow college-mates.... As my boss said (!!!!) to me one day, "Welcome to the corporate world...."
