All I did was Caching of Contacts...

Goodbye mail to IT...

Limbo       

-         (often initial capital letter) Roman Catholic Theology. a region on the border of hell or heaven, serving as the abode after death of unbaptized infants (limbo of infants) and of the righteous who died before the coming of Christ (limbo of the fathers or limbo of the patriarchs).

 

This is a word which will now be a part of my Life forever, this is another word which in some way defines the state in which I have lived throughout my life- a state of confusion, like an infant, unsure why the world it has entered is the most sought-after thing, whether he was better off without the horde of egoistic, stubborn, selfish human race… always wanting to jump off and join the crowd and at the same time hoping to go back to the caring arms of God.

But then if one has entered this world and has to live through, so why not give it your best shot, why not take back some memories, why not do things in life which would make it feel like Heaven?

I remember the day when I had received the offer letter from Wipro and was to join in a week, not sure whether this would in any way help me in whatever was already planned for the future, not sure whether I would have the guts to leave a luring IT job for a design start-up sometime later on, or should I be a good son and share the responsibilities of handling my Dad’s business, in simple words knocking on one of the doors, not knowing whether you are Knocking on Heaven’s doors.

And even after spending almost a year-and-a-half, roaming around the place (Heaven/Hell), the question is still the same… Is this Heaven/Hell?

Things that happened:

-         Got a very nice guide, to show around the place- My Mentor

-         There were not many STOP signboards- roam freely, find your way

-         Strangers were helpful as well, will even go off their way to help you find yours

-         Work required wandering and wondering, thus exploring new and interesting places- Tickets

-         After sometime you could easily understand the paths and it was more fun wandering with destinations- Features

-         Opportunities to setup landmarks, got a chance to add your name to the Hall of Fame, places where your name will be embossed forever- PPM Caching :P

-         You were rewarded with Champagne for your good efforts, sometimes a Cheaper one though- The Bug Buster Awards (cheaper- the ones printed on A4 size paper ;) )

-         The mood of the hard days work was lightened up by sharing a mug of Beer at the end- The Tea sessions

-         The God would listen to you and try and fix things by herself- The Manager :P

You might be wondering that all the things listed above are positive (though that’s not the way when someone’s talking about an IT company) and though strange, there really weren’t many things which I disliked in these 17 months. Maybe it was because for me the stay was too short to heed the glitches, maybe I cared too less for the end result, maybe because I am the privileged, getting a chance to explore the place hidden behind the other door, to go and see for myself if it is Heaven or its Hell.

Starting with barely clearing my FCG exams after training, coming to Pune… Avaya, changing names of softkeys to Tata, Birla, Ambani and trying to rename the forth as “Daga”, remember the assignment to change the promptline which took me 2 days to finish off, breakages in Power Management screen (it was the first time my Manager had come over to my desk to ask an explanation for the carelessness), endless efforts to make Local Conference not work (wasn’t able to reproduce it for 10 days), switching off Tom, Jerry and what all to receive a 481 response from CM for preserving Media, staying late nights to finish off Caching of Contacts… its all been a string of memories I’ll cherish forever.

Now is the time to check out the other side, other door, the one I have always avoided. Now is the time to move to Tiles from Tickets, Casuals to Formals, Coding to Accounting… another Adventure…

But only thing I hope is for the Media Connections to be preserved… Local Conference to be setup once in a while… cause all I have done here is Caching of Contacts… Hope we have a successful GA!!!

Thanks,

Mayank Daga