A new beginning : First day at Infosys, Mysore !

There are few days in every one’s life, which he can never forget and these few days are some special days, such as the last day of school life, the first day of college life or the last day of graduation. We all have an imagination for these days, before they actually happen and after they passed, they dwell in our heart forever. The period between one left the college and join some job is a transition period, marked with emotions. There is a pain in departing from your beloved ones and there is a happiness of going to be self dependent.

Like every human being, I too had the same thoughts, from the time my DOJ had been mailed to me. I tried to imagine how things may happen. It was 9th of July when I started  journey of my new life, we were total 8 with the same dreams in our eyes and curiosity in our hearts. It was 36 hours ong journey in Rajdhani Express, which was well equipped with entertainment and fun, the best thing about Rajdhani is that it  feeds you till your stomach gets over full. Overall it was a wonderful journey which ended when we reached Bengalure at 7 in morning, the train was at right time. As soon as we walked out from station, we were surrounded by Taxi drivers. After a long barganing discussion with one of the cab drivers, we hired a cab. The cab driver put our luggage at the top, we asked him to get it covered with polythene sheet since it might then  rain. He looked at his watch for 2 mins and then told that it won’t rain. We were surprised instead of seeing in the sky for clouds, the driver was watching his watch. It was interesting that rain too follow a time schedule. Finally, it was a comfortable journey of 2:30 hours, well equipped with jokes on south Indian people and the first change that my language adapted was that we were calling “Anna” each other, inspite of “Yaar” and “Bhai” and every time we used it we laughed.

Finally,  he dropped us at Infosys’s Gate, we were before time and were expecting a huge crowd, but to my surprise, there were only few people, we entered the gate after our offer letters and photos got verified. I was mesmerized with the first look of campus and never ever expected a better infrastructure. Without exaggerating, I would say that the buildings were looking like palaces, and the roads were shinning. There were markers indicating where we were to go, finally our luggages got security checked and we were given the Id-Card along with rooms keys and induction kit, a piece of paper stating the formalities for the next day. After then our luggages was taken in a transport vehicle and we were asked to sit in another vehicle. The driver was taking us to our hostel, he was following a zig zag path, Our hostel building number was 93 and it really surprised me that there were 92 buildings there before that, moreover mine was not the last one. There were different kind of buildings such as the one that looked like football and the other one looked like that of a paper is folded into many folds.  Finally, I reached my hostel,  it was a great room and the good thing is that I need not to share it with anybody. From LCD TV to Sofa to from AC to Coffee maker, it was well equipped with all things. There was an Intercom telephone also. I took a short bath where the first five minutes were spent to understand the tap circuitry. Later, I went for lunch with my friends and there was a big food court near my hostel, it had the capacity of occupying more than 700 persons at the same time and the best thing is that Infosys has 7 more like that. There were different stalls for North Indian and South Indian food  and there were a variety of other things too, like there were a variety of juices from Watermelon to Lemon. I was in love with each and everything, thanking God and ofcourse Infosys for all this. Returned to my room, watched TV for 2-3  hours, then along with with few of my friends walked from my hostel. I found a super market nearby. It was actually a super market resembling Big bazar, Nearby this super market, I found a big hall that was actually a TT Hall, I purchased two good quality TT rackets and sweated for next 2 hours. There I came to know that in this campus we have every game played in the world right from Rock climbing to bowling and from swimming to horse riding. I walked back my hostel took my dinner, watched TV for some time and slept. This is how my Corporate life starts. Love you infosys 🙂

Pankaj