Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Corporate Lessons - Chapter 1: People are sensitive

First things first: People - sexual harassment is NOT a joke!
If you think the above statement is also a joke, I actually love you, but I'm bound by professional ethics to remind you that it is not!
If you're still not serious enough, let Mr. Scott Adams(PBUH) explain it to you himself:
As expected, the start to my professional life has been shaky, to say the least! Every day I learn something about life,the universe and everything that I had unlearned with great effort during the last 4 years of my stay at the greatest place in the whole wide world - IIT Kanpur!
Yup that's right; whoever said that IIT's are institutions of learning was probably a wannabe IITian stuck in some crappy NIT.
Oops! I seem to have already forgotten my first lesson in professional life:People are sensitive!
Of course,this is a horizontal division that runs across the vertical one defined by Scott Adams (PBUH): People are idiots!

Anyway, the bunch of assholes from our dear alma mater learnt this lesson the hard way during one of our orientation sessions in the company. It was the Anti-sexual harassment session(as has been established earlier, sexual harassment is not a joke. Does that make anti-sexual harassment a joke?) and a smart female, who later turned out to be our group manager (God is a funny guy!), was instructing us about what constitutes sexual harassment in a corporate environment. Tariq(whom we had nicknamed tharki owing to his controversial activities over the last couple of days) wanted to clarify if guys could be sexually harassed by other guys. Why he didn't already know this despite being an IITK alumnus is beyond me, but that's beside the point for now.
Now as is our wont, we find anything and everything extremely funny, at times even stuff that may qualify as extremely tragic for sensitive people! We laughed like second-grade students who had just gained carnal knowledge and the female decided to let us know that college is over for good and our kind of behaviour is not acceptable outside the safe haven that our campus is.


Oh well, as they say, all good things are murdered in cold blood by sensitive people!

P.S. For the record, my heartfelt apologies to NITians. You rock dudes!

P.P.S. Off the record, NITians are so lame man!

P.P.P.S. Quite obviously, the record is just another joke to us.

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