Case One:
What is your designation?
Consultant.
What do you do?
Consultancy!
No,no, what exactly do you do?
Err, I solve business problems.
No response.A blank expression is waiting to greet you. I never thought that explaining what I do would be so much of a problem. The prospective in-laws, in their effort to understand whether I work at all and how much I earn and what are the chances of their beloved daughters getting to try her luck at a casino in Vegas start off with this questionnaire. And I flop, again, repeatedly, time and again. Without remorse or repentance.
I am pretty sure that the impression I give them is that I don't draw a salary at the end of the month and most likely their daughter would end up at one the harems of Arabia and be the subject of a book to be written 15 years hence.
Case Two:
Which company does he work for?
Chainalytics Services Private Limited.
What?!!!!
Chainalytics = Chain + Analytics (MY mom, exasperated and trying her best to hide it!)
Is it a software firm?
No. It is a consultancy firm.
Silence. After the exchange of a few pleasantries, the conversation ends. And my mother asks me to join a software firm ! And I, am convinced beyond doubt that I made the greatest mistake of my life going for a MBA. You see, the software industry being India Shining's mascot has great asset value in the matrimonial market and not been part of the bandwagon is seen here, in this market, as a disturbing trend.
Whoever said that a weak dollar is hurting India? And whoever said that the software market is a commoditized market now?
There was one response which was kinda reassuring. The person said "Oh, even my daughter is in consulting - she works in a placement agency." Finally, someone who KNOWS what consulting is !! Such knowledgeable people !
Shit! I had an offer from HCL Tech. !
7 comments:
ah... my relatives asked me "what sorta company have you joined?"
and were pacified only when i showed them the name on a newspaper article... pity u can't even do tht :)
consider applying to TCS again ;)
it has 2 things goin for it... The IT company tag... plus the Tata brand... every Indian will recognize the name
What kind of consultant are you when you are not able to explain your work in simple lay man language! Consider explaining Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) to your in-laws!!! :)
SRK:
The most lucrative matrimonial profile is a MBA from IIM, working in TCS/Infy, posted in Bay Area, California.
Ashish:
EAM - sala, pehle to SCM samjhane de...phir EAM !
hirok... u r scaring me... but i think i2 sort of rhymes with IT and maybe i can sort it out after the wedding...
..X. .X..
yeah to think that i tanked infy and tcs... such nice companies... and wipro has an internal matrimonial service too...
tripathy - placom bugger... wot were u doing when we were going astray...
Ranga:
Ah ! the parameters are different for a Tam da...mine is a purely Bong perspective !
do we have to wait for you to get married for Part-II to come out??
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