Saturday, November 14, 2009

First day special

Yesterday I attended a program about Ten commandments to follow to make the first day of an employee in an organization a memorable one. The program started at evening 6 and the speaker's booming voice woke everyone of us who were comfortably sleeping after a long day in class.

"So how would you like your first day of your first job to be?" the speaker asked.
Not many hands rose for everyone in hall either still managed to sleep or were thinking of a proper answer. Finally one girl rose to the relief of everyone else(for they can now go back to sleep).She replied " I would like to enter my office to a round of applause and it would be great if they introduce me like very intelligent person joining us... great honor n bla bla" The audi broke into laughter and everybody was now awake imagining their would be first day in their first job.I thought of something like wonderful office, all smiling staff, a great infrastructure and finding an old friend working there and a HOT BOSS!!! The speaker's voice cut me across from taking my imagination any step further(I had a vague image of how HOT my boss would be!!)
He then showed a video which was all about the checkpoints to make a memorable first day(an employer's perspective).Everybody settled back to continue their nap. The blissful period lasted only for 20 minutes:( The speaker(a approx 40 odd yr old bald man who has about 15 years of industry experience. He had so far switched about 7 jobs)then reminisced about his first day- the reason why I am writing this post.
His first day was whacky I guess. He had joined an Ad company early 1950s and they had welcomed him cordially. He was asked to remove his shoes outside the office and was ordered to offer prayers to the "creative" department. When he came out after offering prayers, the shoes were stuck to the ground(??!!). After a struggle to remove, he had escaped to the restroom where he had the biggest dilemma he had ever faced in his life. The restroom doors were labelled "THEM" and "THOSE" instead of "GENTS" and "LADIES"!!!!!!! Well yeah. I never found out if he managed to get into the right room. :p

A year later, when he was in the team to welcome freshers, they had gotten even more creative and had designed fake food coupons of OBEROI hotel(early days when photoshop was first introduced). The appaavi freshers had taken those coupons to the hotel and what was more weird was that the hotel had even accepted them. WOW!! (of course this company's manager had immediately called up the hotel and apologised and asked them not to accept these vouchers!*sigh*)
What a day those freshers would have had!! I personally prefer that "them & those" idea better..!! :)

So first day in the office, I now wish, that it is something whacky like this instead of a boring or over sweet introductions but i doubt if any corporate will ever take time to make any first day of any employee memorable. So much for the program I attended!

If u have patiently read this post I would appreciate if u can share your first day experience or your dream first day with me.. :)

PS: I would also appreciate if someone can enlighten me about that "them" and "those". It would be highly helpful for my future reference!!

9 comments:

Subha.R said...

when i c a post after my request!i should defenetly obey ur last line of the post.....well here goes.....

DAY1:
after a very confusing last few months in college (confusion as to wat to do next) finally ended up getting placed through campus...in a "Pvt" company ....
May was a month of full excitement tension thoughts etc etc...coz i had to join the company by june 1st week...i had a "n" number of forms to be filled b4 even i entered the company....(for half i dint know wat to fill)..had few students from my very own college joining along with me.(that was strengh u c)
as we around 6 of us entered the main gate of the organization the security asked us for the ID card(we were visitors still)..well then 1 HR akka came in explained us how to fil in the forms half a day went by then....all the 6 of us were taken to the floor (it ws the 4th floor)the floor was really big.ever1 working in the system (for me after seeing college it was too big) ...asked to wait in the cafetaria (with so much running in our minds as to ,,, i mean i dunno there were so many things to list)then 1 guy in black shirt came in and called out my name (my name alone..) i turned back and yeah he was gud lookin (but i later came to know he was married) he introduced me to my manager ( dont forget that the rest 5 r still in the cafeteria) ...usual questions of r u not planning to study further? wat r ur future plans? blah blah...she spoke and it was lunch time by hten... generally as a team they go for lunch. thank god my manager asked me to have lunch with my friends (who still dint knw where they had to go).we were so silent ...post lunch: i was introduced to my team (team of 4) and few ppt slides, excel files, were given to me to read ..then at around 6 ( i was eagerly waiting for some1 to say "u can leave") after some 15 min my manager asked me to leav...i took my bag and rushed down!...to go home! then i realized wherever u go, home is the Best place!!:):):)
and Priya... think i have written toooo much!...;) and the language am so sorry... urs is alwaz the best and my englpish in ur blog looks so funny..(will try to improve d) ;)

Dreamer said...

that was a superb response to my request.. thanks d :)
n abt ur first day it seems gud actually though uneventful(except for dat gudlooking guy who turned out to be married :P)
Did u ever find out y u were d only one to b called in so soon??
n hey.."(for me after seeing college it was too big)" very true!!To me, even my house looks bigger now days :D

Nirmal said...

yen first day varumo varadho.. theriyala.. :(

But your post is good. :)

Unknown said...

Office la room pottu yosipanagalo?? to make employee's first day a memorable one..?..pavam those freshers wid tat fake food coupons.(Nangale eniko oru nal intha mari hotel ku porom athulayum vechutangaya appu nu they would have felt:p)dunno how my first day wil b..

Dreamer said...

@ nirmal..
thx.. :)

@ radhika..
lol.. yeah.. that too OBEROI.. imagine.. they must have been gud wid photoshop..

here2enchant said...

That was a good one Priya... :)

My first day!
The HR lady wanted to formally HAND-OFF me to my team. So she came along with me to introduce me to my team. I met my boss first. He introduced me to my teammates individually. Every person i was introduced to, gave me the same reaction. The reaction was "Whatttttt??????". There was some HR kolarupadi... And my teammates din't know that i was going to join that day. So my welcome note was "What". Thanks to the HR dept for that... :)

Dreamer said...

@pavi..
guess ur office HR has to attend that seminar which i attended!! :)

Anonymous said...

WOW! Awesome post Priya aaaaand, MEOW!! awesome comedy!! Keep it up!! "HR akka" va? keta nondhura poranga!

Dreamer said...

@kar
thank u :) surprise seeing ur comment!.. me no hr akka..! NEVER!!