Infosys maatra sErbEDi….!!!

Infosys maatra sErbEDi….!!!

(huh ?!!??!)

Recently, I was travelling in a bus with one of my friend. We were going to Majestic Bus Stand for some work. We were seated in the last seat of the bus and were chit-chatting about all of the topics we found to speak.  An elderly man in his 40’s was seated in the window seat next to us. This person happened to hear what we were speaking and started conversation with us.

I found something interesting in this conversation and thought of sharing it here. Our conversation went as below :

Man : en maaDkonDideera neevu? odtaa ideera?

We : odid ella aytu. eega kelsak hOgta idivi.

Even though we have 4+ yrs of experience in the IT industry, we didn’t want to reveal all of those details to him. We just behaved like as if we had just come out from college and just joined some job. (We look like that too ;) still young you know :P)

Man : oh en odideera? elli kelsa maaDtirOdu?

We : engineering maaDidivi. ille ello ond chikka company nalli kelsa maaDtivi.

Man : oh IT nalli ideera anni. hEgide IT?

We : hoon houdu IT nalli idivi. Parvagilla naDita ide.

Man : naavella aa kaaldalli odlilla. eegella odidre ne.

We : hmmmm (adikke?? naav en maaDbEku??!!?)

Man : eshT baratte nimge sambaLa?

(Why the hell he’s asking that? Why people start asking salaries? That too strangers !@??!@ Anyways just starting bluffing to him.)

We : eno baratte ondashTu. ond hanneraD-hadinaidu saavira baratte.

Man : eshT varshdinda hOgtirOdu kelsakke?

We : eegashTe college mugitu. ond naalak tingLinda hOgtidivi. 

(We didn’t want to reveal any ‘real’ thing to that person you know. Why should we tell all details to a stranger ?! Better be safe.)

Man : Oooh… bari naalak tingLu aagide sEri, hadinaidu saavira koDtaara sambaLa nimge???  :-O

(Should have seen his expression, as if something big had happened. He continued.)

Man : hadinaidu saavira tumba jasti aaytu alwa? eno ondu enTo-hatto saavira koTre saaku nimgella.

(Who the hell is he??)

We : hmmm… eno koDta idaare. kelsa nu haage maaDskotaare.

Man : aduu sari anni. houdu, yaav yaav company ge sErkobahudu? nam kaDE obru BCA maaDtidaare.

(yaav yaav company ge nu? ondu salakke ondE company sErOk aagodu !!?!!)

We : yaavdadru sErkobahudu. freshers ge ella onde. particular aagi bEku andre Infosysu, TCSu, Wipro antaha kaDe sErkobahudu.

(Now starts the real interesting discussion !!)

Man : enuuu?? Infosys aah?? ayyo saar, alli hOglebardu. neevu ashTe, alli sErokke maatra hOgbEDi. ellig sEridru, Infosys maatra sErbEDi….!!!

I was stunned when he told like this about Infosys. I was an Infoscion for 3.5 years and it is really a great place to work with (though for few of the minus points which every company has.) Though I didn’t want to have conversation with strangers, I just wanted to know the reason behind him telling this statement. So, continued the conversation with him.

Me : yaake saar haag hELteera? eshTu doDDa company adu.

Man : ayyo chennagilla saar aa company. tumba mOsa maaDtaare. yavag bEko avaaga kelasa dinda tegedbiDtaare !!

(What the hell ?! I have never seen Infosys firing its employees without having a very strong reason. Even during recession, they don’t fire unlike other companies do.)

Me : yavaag bEko aaga tegedbiDtaara? :-o

Man : Hoon saar. kayyige ond aivattu saavirano, aravattu saavirano koTTu, hOgi manege anta kaLsbiDtaare.

Me : yaar saar heLid nimge? avru haagella maaDalvalla. (still continuing the conversation)

Man : yaar en hELodu saar. namge gottu ella. nam kaDe obLu huDgige haage maaDid avru. sErkonDu ond aaru tingLu kooDa aagirlilla. paapa maneg kaLsbiTru. yaak sErskobEkittu haag maaDodaadre?

(Now I came to know the real reason behind him telling like that.)

Me : oh haagaa vishaya? aaru tingLalle kaLsirtaare andre adu avru koDo training nalli aa huDugi sariyaagi marks tegdiralla. sumsumne haagella tagiyalla aa company navru. nam friendsella idaaralla alli, gottu namge.

(I still didn’t reveal to him that I am an ex-Infoscion :D )

Man : oh howda saar… namgen gottu saar haagella ide anta. avru hange hELidru namge. naavu ade nija andkonDvi. So, haagadre sumsumne kelsdinda tegiyalla Infosys navru?

Me : hoon tegiyalla.

Man : neev heLidde correctu saar .

(so soon these people believe everything the other people say, whoever they are !)

Man : aa huDugi obba poojaari magaLu. avLappa dEvasthaanadinda dinaa prasaada taroru. adna tindu tindu chennag dappa aagidLu avLu. sakkattagi nidde bEre maaDtidLu. bahushaha, neev heLdange training nalli kooDa nidde maaDtidLu ansatte. adke chennag odilla. adke maneg hogamma anta kaLsbiTTavre.

(Wow !! What a logic this person is telling ??!!!@@? Should bang our head @@!!?><><)

We : hehehehe irabahudu saar.

By now, we were laughing among ourselves and thinking how funny this person’s thinking is. Anyways, by then we had reached our stop. Without speaking another word, we just went away from his sight.

Generally speaking, people have lot of misconceptions about every matter which they do not know about entirely. In this case, this person was a layman about the IT industry and just believed what other persons said to him. Another misconception that he had was about the girl whom he was speaking about.

The confidence level he showed in him, when he told me not to join Infosys, was what made me to think this is something interesting and should write in my blog. You can share your thoughts on this :-)

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