GOA - a hotspot of India where everyone wants to visit and role over the beach. Even it was my wish too from may be around couple of years!!! Somehow I could not really plan for this long travel with various reasons stopping me to do it.
As soon as the year 2006 calendar was out from my comp, started looking at a period where I could get a long holiday. And I could find it for Deepavali. Started bugging my friends for the same. So it was in August where we decided to take off and all of us planned to apply for the leave for the same period. Even I applied for the same and got approved tooo (but changed the company before dat !!!! ).
And the day has arrived to fulfill that wish. Now we have booked Tempo Traveller for our transportation after lots of hot discussions that went to decide the same. We are 10 of us now who will be rolling out today evening…..
YEAH!! Me gonna rock @ GOA… So watch out the next spaces with my updates of the travel …. what are you waiting for , wish me happy journey
By d way HAPPY DEEPAVALI for YOU all. May god bless you and have a colorful and safe festive.
That was a second day, took a cab and went to office. We were made to sit @ ARBORETUM, a place for new joinees. Beautiful PC’s were there and we all took our PC’s and started checking our mail, blah blah blah as we didn’t had any morning session placed. My team has really a wide range of people from 2yrs to 13yrs experienced ones.. and everyone are lovely and fun people. So started to know more on each other. In the afternoon we had again a film session “Making of MindTree – 2”. In this they had told how the logo of MindTree came in and stuff like that. Our ID’s were activated at the end of the day. There our second day concludes.
Then on Wednesday, we were supposed to submit our profile’s in their format and we started seeing peoplenet (an intranet) and tried to know more functions and details of MindTree. Aternoon there were ICICI bank people there in Arboretum for us to open our salary accounts. Again we got our account no’s in a min !! with our checkbooks, netbanking, ATM pin no’s everything included.
On Thursday had been for a Medical Checkup, as it was compulsory. Later in the afternoon, a Finance guy from Banashankari office had been there to explain us to how fill FEP, Income tax forms. Really which was not happened in my prev org.
And there comes the Final Day, Friday of a week. Were sitting in Arboretum and going through some documents. Myself and my frnd got a mail from one of the Project Manager to fill up our skills in their projects format. We did that and we went in search of Carrom Board which was the means of timepass in perot. We got it and we were very happy. We started playing for around an hour. In the evening there were couple of teams playing Cricket on the grass ground. We too joined them and played the whole evening and that ends our sporty day.
All these four days, we had a food @ food court which was the common roof for couple of companies within Global Village. It had different varieties of food south, north, Punjabi, Chinese, fusion includes Non-Veg aswell.. So tried different food each day which was better compared to the cafeteria. We have Coffee day situated in the campus. We have coffee counter in cafeteria which always reminds Prasanna’s coffee to me, but anyways this is free of cost. We have again a variety of snacks counters out there which becomes the timepass area in the evenings.
Through out the week there was Antaakshari competition running out there from 4pm and I enjoyed a lot watching these with the remembrance of Perot Activities. So this ends a week @ MindTree. Still waiting for a two day Assimilation program on 17th and 18th and a project to work with .
Due to a week’s rest @ home, I had bcum a lazy bum. Had to be there @ 9AM !!!. Got-up at around 8AM, though my eyes were still resisting it. Got ready and we (Myself n my frnd) reported at 9:05AM to my second wife in Banashankari, hehe to MindTree – Moi new job. They told me to sit in a room where in all of them were waiting for us. There was a very warm welcome wid a welcome kit (consists a T-Shirt, Dairy and lots of papers, forms to fill up). They explained the agenda for d day. Soon after we were taken to their West Campus in Global Village situated behind RV Coll of Engg (my coll again) through their cab. We were around 27 of us in our batch who were joining on the day.
We entered the campus and was a huge one. When I entered the building, my eyes were wide opened, what an architecture d building has! , may be I will have to write another blog to explain the campus itself. We were made to sit in Kalpavruksha-1 (Name for an auditorium). They have around 3 such audi’s. Then there was an Ice-Breaker session where we tried to introduce ourselves in a different way. Now it was around 12:30 PM. Then they took us to Culture and Competence – 1 ( Training Hall) to create our MailID’s and Employee ID’s. Everything was automated and was done in a min. We got our id’s and they distributed the food coupons for free !! (As it was our first day). We had our food. Food was not that great but still was ok to have it. We had a walk around the campus after lunch and assembled back in kalpavruksha-1 at 2:30PM. There was a session by Mr.Parthasarathy, a co-founder of Mindtree. He explained all the CLASS values and the structure of Mindtree. They believe in CLASS values which goes like dis C – Caring L – Learning A – Achieving S – Sharing S – Social Responsibility Which I liked very much. They trust people and if they get to know any frauds, they are the rude ones.. Infact we don’t have attendance either !!!!
After his session, the Admin people pitched in there and they distributed the bus passes to everyone by explaining the routes and bus no’s for their resp stops. They have around 32 routes. Then we had a filmi round, where a clip of “Making of MindTree – 1” was played. A nice, descent video that was…. It contained the story from their idea in mind to start up a company to their birth. A must watch video I would say.. By the time v finished it was around 6PM and walked towards the buses as the buses would leave by 6:35PM. We sat in our resp buses and came back home.
A nice, wonderful, satisfied day @ Mindtree came to an end. The couple of things I liked compared to our prev organization were like all the processes were defined and well placed properly, most of the systems were automated and one more thing is , the new joinees were directed well and all the things were coming to them where they are sitting like bus passes, Id’s, Access cards and we were not made to run around for all these basic needs which we look out for. But whatever it may be, for perot guys out there - I REALLY MISS U ALL
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
