Hexaware days - 1 :))))))

I am sure most of you would have guessed after reading the title of this post how I feel when I think of the days I spent at Hexaware (my second employer, after Symphony Services).

I spent two years at Hexaware (exactly 2 years and 1 day - 07-Feb-05 to 08-Feb-07). The decision to join Hexaware was taken pretty quickly, and I shifted from Blore to Madras over the weekend before joining Hexaware.

On the first day, I went to HT 1 (aka Hexaware Towers 1, you know like one of those WTC Twin Towers) to complete the joining formalities. I remember it was this person named Swaminathan who helped me with the forms et al. I had gone there with my dad for he had to sign as the surety on my bond of two years (Now you know why I stayed there that loooooooooooooooong ). While I was filling- up the forms, I noticed there was this rather pretty girl, in a nice yellow cotton salwar, who was also joining the same day. Going by her relaxed appearance (not that I was tense) and noticing that she had not brought her dad or someone to sign as the surety, I thought she must be a lateral- hire (thereby no bond, no tag-along-dad). Added to this was the fact that, while I was pestering Swaminathan with a volley of questions (poor fella, wonder if he ever regretted his job just bcos of that one fateful day) , particularly pertaining to the bond (characteristic of the ever-sceptical me), she seemed to fill up the forms as though all this was routine work for her, as if this was her N-th job, as if she could leave this job too the very next day, as if Hexaware was no big-deal etc etc etc. Hmmm........So many thoughts in a matter of seconds.

Fine. I then finished with the forms and submitted them to Swaminathan and was waiting for him to tell me where to go when he said 'Prasad, I guess you have been to HT2 (see, didn't I say Twin towers???), so could you take her also with you? She is also a fresher joining today'. Bummer!!!!!! My potti (Tamil for box) was off!!!! I thought it was better to ask for info than tiring the *logician* within me. So, on the way to the second tower, I got to know her name, the college she graduated from, her major, and as customary, was asked the same questions by her and gave her the required data. By the time this exhange ended, we reached HT2.

Once there, Praks (aka Prakash, our VP) welcomed us and asked one of the team members to introduce us to the others. I remember very well, it was Ramya (from the LH TKT team) who introduced us to the people of our DU (the USAS team) and the first thing that almost everyone asked her that day was 'Oh! Idu daana anda Bangalore-lerndu vandu sera irunda..... ?' (Is he the one who was supposed to come and join us from Bangalore?) and I would help them complete the sentence saying, ' Oh yeah yeah....'.

I was taken around and introduced to the Superb Gomu, the Xcargo * brats * (no offence guys, this was the exact word Ramya used to describe them), the smiling Hema (who was my manager during my full tenure at Hexaware), the LH Inventory team, the LH Mozaik team, the Aircare (= Ever-hard-working = Ever-compelled-to-work-hard) team, the Genius Shiva etc etc etc. Of course, Praks was always with one team or the other cracking jokes and moving about as yet another team member rather than a VP (This is something that I admire in him a lot, it always made all of us working under him, feel at ease. To sample his sense of humour: Once he had asked all the DU members to give him our feedback about him. And I guess someone had written that he favours girls as opposed to guys. His reply was *As for all of those who feel I move closer with girls, you should be happy that the same is not happening with respect to guys* - and that sent me LOL LOL LOL).

To be continued........

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