The Bombay Tale ... Continued

When I wrote that previous blog about Bombay, I thought, I'll write a string of 'Children's-Fiction-meets-Reality-TV' blogs and make a bestseller.
But, I begin my day with Jack Welch and end it with Thomas Harris' Silence of the Lambs
(Silence of the Lambs is a gory book about a serial killer who skins his victims to make vests out of their hide and a psychiatrist of sorts who has a cannibalistic inclination, who is also the hero!!).
So I'm wondering how I'm going to finish my Bombay tale with not so very silent lambs screaming straight from my gutt!!!

Anyway, so there we were, 12 kids, all set to hit the training room, full of vigour and ignorance. The best came to train us.
Training at a corporate level begins with what they call "Overviews". You know, where they give you a "high-level" picture of the organiation. So we had some 8 or 10 people giving us different vantage points to look at the company from. Sure seemed as glamorous as ever!
Wow! We were in a company who's balance sheet was in trillions(impressed). And it had some 6-7 different lines of business (that meant it sold six different products like credit cards, Treasury services, you know, the works) and was spread all across the globe (impressed again).

My mom called me up one evening and asked me a very very good question. "What are you going to be doing, child?"
Hmm... good question... verry good question... next question?

Two weeks flew by. Impression itna badh gaya tha ke we had stars in our eyes. But mum still didnt get an answer. Arre yaar, when you have stars twinkling in your eyes, aur kuch dikhega kya?? Sawal poochte hain!

During the course of the training, we were introduced to 'Lotus Notes'. Lotus Notes bole toh...inhouse e-mail. Oye awesome yaar! So this place had its own private e-mail. Then they showed their chatting facility, like Yahoo Messenger, only faster, more corporate-looking. Tech-savy kids, we went beserk with the new e-mail and chat system. Must've sent enough mail to block a few servers. God knows. We felt like kids being let lose inside a toy store.

By the way, we aren't kids really... can't call 21 yr olds kids huh? Thought so...
But then yaar, kids nahi toh batao toh sahi ke hum karne wale hai kya???

"Hmm... you see, here in Mumbai, the bank has a... well... its not a BPO... more of a high end KPO, really... and... you are the Ones who are going to actually recieve raw financial statements from Braches and Subsidiaries across Asia...and you will be consolidating them into high-level Balance Sheets and Profit and Loss accounts and sending them to the Head Office! Thats a lot of responsible work."

Cool! Lots of International banks do that! Stars! I can see stars...
"Abbe, RAAT ho gayi hai..." my roomie said. "... kal training ka last din hai... jaldi jana hai... so jaa."