PS: I have profound faith in Job-Fairs. But if you can't laugh over it at the end of a day, it's too serious for your life :) Happy reading!
Story so far: GVR, a grad student, dies and gets a bag of bricks, a bottle of wine and a dictionary. The bag contains bricks representing his sins and he has to repent them. He meets an under-grad and repents Envy. He is walking on an endless road. And then....
Job-Fair
“One tiny lil' jobless creature asked for more pizzas in feedback booklet”, an astonished voice gets life.
“What! ho ho... what do you mean??? He wrote 'order more pizza next time'.. ha ha... he must be a poor job-less soul”, another astonished yet amused voice responds.
“So what did you do...next time?”, another astonished as well as curious voice joins the discussion.
“Stopped putting the feedback booklet in the information session. How could I let my manager know that I was making money by ordering less pizza than required? What else could I do?”, the first voice defends its actions.
“Simply perfect! you gotcha be watching out what your manager is watching”, a mature voice supports the first voice.
GVR was moving alone for some time on the endless road. He now sees four smoky figures ahead. He is close enough to hear them clearly. They haven't noticed his presence. He looks at his feet and finds-out that there is no foot to make any sound. A cool awesome white smoky tail is moving smoothly on the whiter smoky platform. He slows down his pace to maintain some distance. He can still hear them clearly. He notices that these figures are little darker than his smoke. 'Now who else can be sinner than grad and under-grads?', he wonders.
“You know! in my ten years at Outtel, I have learned two things.... first.. watch what your manager is watching and you can save your @$$ in the long run.... and second.. watch what your manager is not watching and that's where you make some extra bucks...”, the mature voice shares its vision with other guys.
“What! you are funny.. ain't you.. I must say the funniest guy I have ever met... ho ho ho, nice theory. No one told me this at BMD”, the second figure looks easily titillated.
GVR takes no time understanding that the poor jobless creature -in their discussion- is a grad student. These guys must be employees of two leading competitor companies of hardware industry. They must have died just before a job-fair. BMD and Outtel are hard-core competitors. GVR could never imagine their employees talking so freely. It must be the death who erases all competitions. GVR, surely, is gonna appreciate this after-life set-up.
“The tale doesn't end with pizza. These jobless creatures are far more jobless and shameless... I was once delivering a lecture on our Boogle's innovative product-line and at the far corner of the lecture hall, these two grads were literally fighting over the last slice of pizza... What the f*ck! They should at least have some respect for technology, for Boogle, for me – their school senior... but no!! these guys are jobless, senseless and useless”, the first figure looks very disappointed with the future of technology because it is going in wrong hands.
GVR, a grad student in his earthly life, who used to mark his calendar for all seminars with free food feels sorry. 'Oh so a Boogle guy is also in the gang... Cool!!', he thinks.
“That's why MegaSoft never wastes its energy on seminars before the actual job-fair.... Just go in the field, let them stand in a queue for long time and then interview them right there... pick few and come-back... Algorithm simplified!', The third smoke gives a better solution to the first one.
“Wow! MegaSoft too!!”, All big brands excite GVR. The other two guys must be working in the Software giants, Boogle & MegaSoft. They are discussing a job-fair, i.e. career fair. Education leads us to good citizenship, is an old saying, an outdated version of more practical and precise proverb that goes like this, 'Education leads us to industry where a hard working student transforms into a hardly working employee.' A job fair is a gateway to this transformation. Employees attract poor students to strengthen their fraternity and poor students enter the trap out of sheer greed.
“Ohh.. don't get me started on the field... I have seen nine job-fairs... and I can tell you that these creatures are the most shameless creatures in the whole universe. They trade their resume for free stuff.... Generous companies bring them tooth-pastes, pens, caps, t-shirts, water-bottles, key-chains etc. as a token of thanks for their participation in job-fair.... They just shamelessly trade their resume for these stuff... I have seen many students standing in irrelevant company's queue for free supply of their groceries.... I could have forgiven them, but some students don't even wait, don't even talk, don't even come-up with their resume, they just appears from no where, collects a bag from some company stall, and goes to all other stalls collecting free stuffs... Heights of shamelessness, I must say”, the Outtel guy again shares his experience. He is a bit disappointed this time.
“ohh what? what a pity?? but are you serious.. I mean... just coming and picking free stuff, without giving resume... ha ha... those creatures must be the funniest creatures... ho ho.. I have never seen this stuff.... ha ha I can imagine it... ho ho.. pretty funny, it looks”, the BMD guy can laugh over any situation.
But GVR feels sorry. He used to behave similarly in job-fairs. He never purchased tooth-paste, pen, t-shirt, cap, bag, key-chain etc. in his graduate life. He didn't brush his teeth for one whole week because his tooth-paste stock was over just before a job-fair. He even picked stuffs from job-fairs that he never used. He used to think that it was a basic right of every grad student. He was wrong, it must be his Greed. He felt sorry, and some of his bricks disappear.
“One student asked if we have any Medium size t-shirt left before handing his resume to me”, the Boogle guys tells his story.
“You guys always want to live with complexity... you, first, make your world complex, and then complain against it.... Why do you guys bring these exotic stuff to a poor place like school? ... look at us!! we came up with a simpler solution, we brought them a detergent powder which is no good for washing... We packed the stuff in a funky iPod like Box and stacked the boxes in a heap on our counter.... students waited in a long queue to find out the truth.. ha ha ha.. Algorithm simplified once again”, MegaSoft never misses a chance to showcase his superiority over Boogle.
“What! ho ho.. I must tell you, this after-death is too funny... I have never met anyone funnier in my life... ha ha.. what a solution!.. I am glad that I died before I could attend my first job-fair ever. It was gonna be my first job-fair.”, The BMD guy finally speaks something that catches every one's attention including GVR's.
“What... the first one.”, the Boogle guy asks.
“So! you are a Pizza-guy, ain't you?”, the Outtel guy inquires.
“What? A Pizza-guy? What does it mean?”, finally something truly astonished the BMD guy without troubling his nerves responsible for laughing.
“See, there are different levels of employees in a hiring crew that goes to a job-fair”, the mature Outtel guy starts sharing his wisdom again, “Lets start with a pizza-guy, the person who order pizzas for pre-job-fair seminars and takes care about crew's meal during interviews etc., then the next hierarchical level is possessed by a poster guy. He is responsible for setting up company tents and posters. Speakers are the next... they tell company policies and can speak non-sense for hours without taking breath.... and the last one is”
“The resume guy?”, the BMD guy guesses.
“Well there is no resume guy, but yes.. there is a shredder guy whose duties include resume collection and their safe disposal to company's shredding machine.”, the Boogle guy completes the sentence. All companies have unanimously the same levels of hierarchy in a hiring crew.
“See !!again you guys are creating a complex world around you... look at MegaSoft... we don't have pre-job-fair seminars, so no pizza or poster guy.... all MegaSoft guys are good orators, so no extra speaker in the crew... so just one or at most two can handle a job-fair... Algorithm Simplified, yet again”, the MegaSoft guy reveals his company's secret.
GVR is fed-up of listening to them. He has already realized his Greed. He wants to move on. He interrupts them.
“Excuse me! I want to say thanks to you guys”, GVR speaks.
He catches their attention who never noticed his presence so far.
“I am Girdhar Venkatpati Raju... call me GVR. I was a grad student... and your little conversation here helped me repent my greed. Thanks.”, GVR saves their questions and explains everything.
“But I have a doubt”, GVR further asks.
“How come all of you died together... I mean was there any air-plane casualty? Then why only four of you?”, GVR has got a valid doubt.
“No! we were sharing a car-drive from the airport to a university and met an accident.”
“Hmmm Car-pooling! eco-friendly set-up!! good”, GVR praises their efforts.
“What eco-friendly? Frankly speaking, we all get compensation from our companies for all the expenses we made during our trip. We were saving some cash by pooling car and plan to show fake bills later.”, the Outtel guy tells the real story.
GVR starts moving on the endless road thinking that a grad student is not only one who commits GREED on the earth.
Notes:
1.It's time for follow-up process. Update your resume and apply online for job/internship, if you have recently attended a job-fair. :)
2.Further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins#Greed_.28Latin.2C_avaritia.29
3.This is the second last part of the story. Next post should be the last one. Stay tuned!
Story so far: GVR, a grad student, dies and gets a bag of bricks, a bottle of wine and a dictionary. The bag contains bricks representing his sins and he has to repent them. He meets an under-grad and repents Envy. He is walking on an endless road. And then....
Job-Fair
“One tiny lil' jobless creature asked for more pizzas in feedback booklet”, an astonished voice gets life.
“What! ho ho... what do you mean??? He wrote 'order more pizza next time'.. ha ha... he must be a poor job-less soul”, another astonished yet amused voice responds.
“So what did you do...next time?”, another astonished as well as curious voice joins the discussion.
“Stopped putting the feedback booklet in the information session. How could I let my manager know that I was making money by ordering less pizza than required? What else could I do?”, the first voice defends its actions.
“Simply perfect! you gotcha be watching out what your manager is watching”, a mature voice supports the first voice.
GVR was moving alone for some time on the endless road. He now sees four smoky figures ahead. He is close enough to hear them clearly. They haven't noticed his presence. He looks at his feet and finds-out that there is no foot to make any sound. A cool awesome white smoky tail is moving smoothly on the whiter smoky platform. He slows down his pace to maintain some distance. He can still hear them clearly. He notices that these figures are little darker than his smoke. 'Now who else can be sinner than grad and under-grads?', he wonders.
“You know! in my ten years at Outtel, I have learned two things.... first.. watch what your manager is watching and you can save your @$$ in the long run.... and second.. watch what your manager is not watching and that's where you make some extra bucks...”, the mature voice shares its vision with other guys.
“What! you are funny.. ain't you.. I must say the funniest guy I have ever met... ho ho ho, nice theory. No one told me this at BMD”, the second figure looks easily titillated.
GVR takes no time understanding that the poor jobless creature -in their discussion- is a grad student. These guys must be employees of two leading competitor companies of hardware industry. They must have died just before a job-fair. BMD and Outtel are hard-core competitors. GVR could never imagine their employees talking so freely. It must be the death who erases all competitions. GVR, surely, is gonna appreciate this after-life set-up.
“The tale doesn't end with pizza. These jobless creatures are far more jobless and shameless... I was once delivering a lecture on our Boogle's innovative product-line and at the far corner of the lecture hall, these two grads were literally fighting over the last slice of pizza... What the f*ck! They should at least have some respect for technology, for Boogle, for me – their school senior... but no!! these guys are jobless, senseless and useless”, the first figure looks very disappointed with the future of technology because it is going in wrong hands.
GVR, a grad student in his earthly life, who used to mark his calendar for all seminars with free food feels sorry. 'Oh so a Boogle guy is also in the gang... Cool!!', he thinks.
“That's why MegaSoft never wastes its energy on seminars before the actual job-fair.... Just go in the field, let them stand in a queue for long time and then interview them right there... pick few and come-back... Algorithm simplified!', The third smoke gives a better solution to the first one.
“Wow! MegaSoft too!!”, All big brands excite GVR. The other two guys must be working in the Software giants, Boogle & MegaSoft. They are discussing a job-fair, i.e. career fair. Education leads us to good citizenship, is an old saying, an outdated version of more practical and precise proverb that goes like this, 'Education leads us to industry where a hard working student transforms into a hardly working employee.' A job fair is a gateway to this transformation. Employees attract poor students to strengthen their fraternity and poor students enter the trap out of sheer greed.
“Ohh.. don't get me started on the field... I have seen nine job-fairs... and I can tell you that these creatures are the most shameless creatures in the whole universe. They trade their resume for free stuff.... Generous companies bring them tooth-pastes, pens, caps, t-shirts, water-bottles, key-chains etc. as a token of thanks for their participation in job-fair.... They just shamelessly trade their resume for these stuff... I have seen many students standing in irrelevant company's queue for free supply of their groceries.... I could have forgiven them, but some students don't even wait, don't even talk, don't even come-up with their resume, they just appears from no where, collects a bag from some company stall, and goes to all other stalls collecting free stuffs... Heights of shamelessness, I must say”, the Outtel guy again shares his experience. He is a bit disappointed this time.
“ohh what? what a pity?? but are you serious.. I mean... just coming and picking free stuff, without giving resume... ha ha... those creatures must be the funniest creatures... ho ho.. I have never seen this stuff.... ha ha I can imagine it... ho ho.. pretty funny, it looks”, the BMD guy can laugh over any situation.
But GVR feels sorry. He used to behave similarly in job-fairs. He never purchased tooth-paste, pen, t-shirt, cap, bag, key-chain etc. in his graduate life. He didn't brush his teeth for one whole week because his tooth-paste stock was over just before a job-fair. He even picked stuffs from job-fairs that he never used. He used to think that it was a basic right of every grad student. He was wrong, it must be his Greed. He felt sorry, and some of his bricks disappear.
“One student asked if we have any Medium size t-shirt left before handing his resume to me”, the Boogle guys tells his story.
“You guys always want to live with complexity... you, first, make your world complex, and then complain against it.... Why do you guys bring these exotic stuff to a poor place like school? ... look at us!! we came up with a simpler solution, we brought them a detergent powder which is no good for washing... We packed the stuff in a funky iPod like Box and stacked the boxes in a heap on our counter.... students waited in a long queue to find out the truth.. ha ha ha.. Algorithm simplified once again”, MegaSoft never misses a chance to showcase his superiority over Boogle.
“What! ho ho.. I must tell you, this after-death is too funny... I have never met anyone funnier in my life... ha ha.. what a solution!.. I am glad that I died before I could attend my first job-fair ever. It was gonna be my first job-fair.”, The BMD guy finally speaks something that catches every one's attention including GVR's.
“What... the first one.”, the Boogle guy asks.
“So! you are a Pizza-guy, ain't you?”, the Outtel guy inquires.
“What? A Pizza-guy? What does it mean?”, finally something truly astonished the BMD guy without troubling his nerves responsible for laughing.
“See, there are different levels of employees in a hiring crew that goes to a job-fair”, the mature Outtel guy starts sharing his wisdom again, “Lets start with a pizza-guy, the person who order pizzas for pre-job-fair seminars and takes care about crew's meal during interviews etc., then the next hierarchical level is possessed by a poster guy. He is responsible for setting up company tents and posters. Speakers are the next... they tell company policies and can speak non-sense for hours without taking breath.... and the last one is”
“The resume guy?”, the BMD guy guesses.
“Well there is no resume guy, but yes.. there is a shredder guy whose duties include resume collection and their safe disposal to company's shredding machine.”, the Boogle guy completes the sentence. All companies have unanimously the same levels of hierarchy in a hiring crew.
“See !!again you guys are creating a complex world around you... look at MegaSoft... we don't have pre-job-fair seminars, so no pizza or poster guy.... all MegaSoft guys are good orators, so no extra speaker in the crew... so just one or at most two can handle a job-fair... Algorithm Simplified, yet again”, the MegaSoft guy reveals his company's secret.
GVR is fed-up of listening to them. He has already realized his Greed. He wants to move on. He interrupts them.
“Excuse me! I want to say thanks to you guys”, GVR speaks.
He catches their attention who never noticed his presence so far.
“I am Girdhar Venkatpati Raju... call me GVR. I was a grad student... and your little conversation here helped me repent my greed. Thanks.”, GVR saves their questions and explains everything.
“But I have a doubt”, GVR further asks.
“How come all of you died together... I mean was there any air-plane casualty? Then why only four of you?”, GVR has got a valid doubt.
“No! we were sharing a car-drive from the airport to a university and met an accident.”
“Hmmm Car-pooling! eco-friendly set-up!! good”, GVR praises their efforts.
“What eco-friendly? Frankly speaking, we all get compensation from our companies for all the expenses we made during our trip. We were saving some cash by pooling car and plan to show fake bills later.”, the Outtel guy tells the real story.
GVR starts moving on the endless road thinking that a grad student is not only one who commits GREED on the earth.
Notes:
1.It's time for follow-up process. Update your resume and apply online for job/internship, if you have recently attended a job-fair. :)
2.Further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins#Greed_.28Latin.2C_avaritia.29
3.This is the second last part of the story. Next post should be the last one. Stay tuned!
posted by Ritesh | 7:35 PM
4 Comments:
may be you should call it "job "un-fair"" instead of job fair ;) ...
Interesting ... waiting for the last one now.
Technical Error:
"A cool awesome white smoky tail is moving smoothly on the whiter smoky platform."
White on Whiter wouldn't even be visible :D whats with your circuits ?? :D lol
otherwise a nice one
@Rohit
GVR's smoke is not completely white. It has some blackness due to the sins he committed on earth. [:)]
@All: Thanks for reading guys!
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