The Devil's Reject

My mom keeps telling me a couple of things these days, especially since my internship started.

1: You cannot choose who your boss is
2: You cannot choose who your parents are

The latter because she has seen a ton of children mess about with their parents in their old age, while the former because she sees me coming home absolutely pissed and angry, the family genes finally kick in, I do have crazy anger like both my parents.

How did I unlock this rage?

Lets go back a couple of days, well actually 4 weeks back when we had to meet the MD of the company where I was doing my SIP, while the bugger did talk big about his company and all, he somehow thought we had done no work at all for a couple of weeks, which was far from the truth, the thing was that the regional manager wanted to save his ass and thus he threw us interns into the deep end of the pool.

This regional head was the bloke who made 1.45 Crore in one financial year and then came to work in a company which was barely 2 years in its existence, Why?
Because he loves money, that is his only motivation,I got plans for that.

So while 6 weeks pass without much problems barring the one i just stated above, we got most of the work done and were in the final leg of making the project for submission, we hear that the boss wants to meet us and talk to us, when we reach the 666 office, (6 camac street, 6th floor, suite no 600) we see that the boss is ripping all the employees into pieces, we weren't scared, as we had come prepared with our own arsenal. We , however didn't meet the boss but the regional head who knowing well enough that we have barely 7 days left in our internship gives us a new project to be done in less than 7 days.

The new project was located around 50 kms from Calcutta, which to a normal bloke would not seem to be far but the conditions of the roads in Calcutta make a 10 km, 20 minute journey, one that lasts more than an hour, so this journey was to take around 2 hours, easily.

I had decided that no one would be going to this new project in the middle of nowhere, but a few pals told me that since we had not caused much of a stir in the office and its our last week, we might as well visit the place, once.

We did visit the place, when we actually vehemently said that we would not to the regional head, who came up with crap assed excuses like "I have not forced you guys to do anything" and all, in fact in the office people had to calm us interns down as we would have actually beaten up the said guy.

So we went to the site, with no names, or even an address of the project, a residential building is coming up somewhere in the middle of a jungle, this part of the city does not speak hindi, which was bad for me as my bengali is not up to the mark. Fortunately the other interns can speak pretty well, so while we spent around 1 hour just searching for the place, the regional head tells us to wait in the developers office and that he would come soon, the time was around 2 PM , we waited till around 2:30 before we called the HR and asked about the whereabouts.

The developer was actually in our office signing some papers , with the regional head also there, he fucking knew the developer would not be in Andul but in Calcutta, yet he sent us there to do nothing and waste our time, fuck the head we left for home.

The next day we again decided we were not going, no fucking way, this time the douche greets us and asks us about the project, we told him the project was shit and we have no idea as to why the firm was trying to sell a building in the middle of nowhere, where a local dealer would sell this property and that there was no need for the company to deal with it as they had no scope of selling anything or gaining anything fruitful from it.

He then tells us that there is this huge piece of land another 20 minutes from the first property and that was their main aim, this was a side project of the same developer, so we should go to the market place and get the views and ideas of the people there as to what are their needs and wants, initially we were asked to get around 50 leads per person so that these people would want to buy the flats, we got so upset with this bit as we had just gone to that place and they told us to do nothing, this time we told em that we would go the next day but not today
The head asks me "What are you going to do today?"
I got pissed and replied "Am going home to do nothing"
That shut him up, the HR had to come and solve the problem, now we had to interview 25 people and get the hell out of the place, while the head kept on insisting that he would meet us there at around 2 PM.

We reached Andul and started pestering a lot of people in the area for their views on a new project, while people didn't care about swimming pools and gymnasiums in the complex, they wanted power back up and car parking, but I don't think you guys give a shit to this bit so I am moving on, while I nearly pissed off and got thrown out of a photocopy ( its not xerox , idiots) center as I couldn't speak proper bengali.

Fast forward, its 2:30 and no sign of the head, so we call the HR who calls the head, who calls us and tells us to wait near the SBI ATM and that he would be there in 2 mins, it becomes 3 PM and no sign of him yet, we then see the old bloke from the developers office rushing out in his cycle, we shout out to him and find out that our head is sitting in the office and is waiting to have something to drink, sprite is the choice for today.

At 3:30 we call him again and this time he says he can see us in front of the ATM
We tell him where ? we aren't at the ATM
He replies, where are you?
We tell him that we are close by, we were standing near the developers house and the douche is walking with a smile but that smile fades when he sees 5 angry people looking at him.

Now the freak is caught, so we ask him how he came here?
He says via bus, we rip him as he did not have a ticket to prove it, damn douche was lying again when he said that there was a good restaurant close by , again crap, we gave him those 25 response sheets that we had got and left.

Today, there is no smile on his face when he enters the office but I give him this wry smile and greet him in my obnoxious rapist tone "Good morning Saaaar", freak didn't respond, then he comes to me and tells me that we are going to Andul again and starts telling me and showing me on a piece of paper where he will place some billboards and all, the entire time I am playing Angry Birds on my cell and not giving a damn to what he says, all the other interns come, he says the same crap, no one gives a shit and we leave for home.

Fuck it, we got 4 days left, I am not going half way across the state to some undeveloped village and getting pissed for no reason.

this douche said his only motivation is money, If I become this big tycoon, I will buy him and make him clean public urinals with his mouth, pay him handsomely I will but he better be prepared to become a real douche.

All work and no pay....off

Summer internship, an introduction to the life that is to be for the next 40 odd years at least, I knew this was not going to be a walk in the park , that it would probably be a tough harrowing experience but what I and a few of my mates have been through in the past couple of weeks may have left us all scarred,badly, for the rest of our lives.

Going to a real estate company was never my first choice but we were forcefully placed into that company even though our interview sucked ass, so with bated breath the first day came, which ended up with us spending time with the Hr madam who was chatting with us the entire day but made us sit from 10 AM to 6 PM with nothing constructive done in between barring us learning about her and us learning more about each other, 6 other students were doing their SIP from the company as well.

The office however is bloody small and the 6 of us are forced into a cubile which is no more than 6X8 feet , maybe even smaller, we can barely move about and also the AC does not work well and makes the place stuffy.

The next day we got our project briefing, to understand the project we needed around 5 tries , we thought we were to find out why some flats weren't selling, then we were to find out the positives and negative points of the flats, then we were supposed to actually make the marketing strategy of the said plots and now it seems we have to generate leads to sell the flats.

While this might seem alright the biggest problem has been the fact that all 6 of us have been given individual projects with some of us barely having any knowledge of the area, geography and road map of Calcutta, especially ME, so while i got a brilliant set of projects near the Nayabad, Naredrapur area( which is a village is most senses). I had no idea of how to get these, well frankly I had never heard of these places before as well, thankfully we students on our own decided that each one of us would accompany the other to reach the said destination, when I reached mine, with absolutely no help from the company I had to find and locate my place, which meant traveling in the metro which took me another 30 minutes from my office , then it took me a total of 30 minutes more via walking and auto to find my place, a shoddy desolate place with barely anything worth talking , why anyone would want to shift here is beyond me and what would I be able to glorify and present here would be a real challenge for God , let alone a mortal like me.

While these site visits weren't fun but it was a part of the job which most of us were, in fact all of us were doing everyday,the traveling does at a price, monetarily and physically,I have spent nearly 1000 Rs in a week to cover so much distance also I have gotten massively sunburnt and gone 2-3 shades darker, then recently,yesterday in fact, while we all planned to go to another site visit we were told to stay in office so that our MD would brief us, the HR lady told us to eat our lunch and come back.
She even went to an extent of scaring us, when the briefing started he said
"I am very disappointed with the way you have worked and if you continue like this I will have no hesitation to sack you, if you make a mistake in the next 15 days you will get the sack"

We were thinking WTF is going on?
while the boss had a real go at glorifying himself as to how he helped LG recover its sales, how he built a telecom giant, how he knows what each one of us is thinking, why all the cell phones have rounded edges, how he got a corolla for free, how his salary was aournd 20 crore plus and he still gave up the job, etc etc etc.

After the bashing we were asked to leave the office and come back on a saturday, a day when we have no work in a real estate company because everyone is busy chatting away to clients or taking them to site visits, oh and I remember we were also asked now by the MD to find clients for the flats which means scoping and surveying the area within a radius of 10-15 kms of my location. Its a freaking village no one has 20 lakhs to buy any flat. Back to the point, now that we leave the office and are waiting outside worried that we may not get our clearance certificate, the MD's wife comes out and shouts at us while we are standing on the street as to "what are you people doing here?", like she owns the place, that was the last straw.

Called a cab, the 5 of us, off we went to our college and started hammering away at our cell which got us placed and all the teachers present there, after an hour of crying and shouting foul we understand that nothing can be done and that we are stuck here for a good while,2 months to be exact, nothing can be done and we must somehow survive. Every teacher was saying "this is part and parcel of life, don't worry this too shall pass" and all of em crummy lines which we hear again and again.

Cut to today,saturday, all of us are pissed to say the least the HR comes up today like nothing has happened and she tells us that the boss is like that and nothing can be done, everyone gets a lashing almost on a daily basis and that we shouldn't worry about it and that we would all be there right until the end of the 2 months.

While people told me that this SIP would be a learning experience, all I have learned is how to burn a hole in my pocket and travel to remote desolate areas of the city.

All work and no pay/play makes Adeem a very pissed off man.