Drawing The Green Dot

My First Week @ Deloitte

Deloitte offered two weeks of accomodation at the Sherwood BelAir hotel and so on the 26th June, I went to the Belair. No surprises to find that it was a pretty neat place. I was told there would be 3 day orientaion program after which people start their training.

On 27th morning, all of us headed to the ITC - another big hotel - to kick start a career at Deloitte. First thing, we all were given a laptop in a kutty bag.  An i5 4 GB RAM but office monitored one. Yay?! We were then given tables numbers which ensured no one you knew would be anywhere near. A sign of things to come :)

For the entire three day orientation period few phrases kept popping up. "Networking" aka getting to know everyone there, "Welcome to Deloitte" and "Party" which is something you don't hear in every office setting. Of course they also gave a whole lot of information about the company, our job blah blah, most of which just went straight over our heads. I got to meet with a lot of people, most of them very friendly. Lunch was pretty great there :D

I don't know what is it with me and messing up bus rides. On the second day me and a few of our friends missed the company provided bus to the ITC. We got into one of those AC buses and got down at the Richmond Road. We later realised we should have gotten down at the Richmond Circle, the next stop. Getting down at the wrong stop in the first few days seems to have become a tradition to me seeing I have now done the same thing in my school and college :D

There was a small excitement when people found Sehwag was staying at the ITC. A few people even managed to take a photo with him, post it on Facebook and squeeze a few likes out of people. There was one unfortunate dude who after giving the right pose with Sehwag was told his camera/mobile said "Insufficient Memory". Talk about bad luck!

On the third day we were all put into a specific "service line". There was AMS, SAP, OPT, IM, SI whose expansions sound like difficult college subjects! I was put in AMS - OPT and given location center for the training after the third day.

The first day of training was somewhat similar to the first day of my college. FUll of classes straight away. Classes on database for a full day. At the end of the evening, a guy says "You are in IM actually it seems so you will have to join those guys".

So on friday I go along with the IM people. Now these people stay at a different hotel and so already have a gang. So had to spend the day on my own with mails to send telling people about the change.

End of friday Went to Transformers with my relatives. The movie was heavily inspired by old Vijaykanth movies :D

Saturday a guy calls me up and says "Dude I just confirmed that your name is not in the IM people list. So you will join the OPT guys." So had to spend some time mailing people about the change in the change. Ore confusions of India tha :D

There was also some people who were told they had to go for a six weeks training in the Hyderabad office. Company sponsored flight for up and down travel, six weeks accomodation included! Lucky for them.

All in all a very eventful week :)

P.S : The Deloitte logo has a green dot in the end for reasons am not very sure of. Hence the name for the post "Drawing the green dot"

P.P.S : This post does not do full justice to my first week. I might have missed a few things here and there.