Sunday, December 30, 2007

Life begins in office

Well, well.
My first day in office! Having been shortlisted to work for a PR firm in India, i was quite excited since while passing through the MBA phase i had always wanted to get into advertising / PR and here i was working for a highly rated PR firm in India!
Here i come and the first thing i am told is to get into newspapers and magazines. I am thrilled. Imagine being paid to go through magazines and newspapers the whole day! Before 11 a.m., however, i realize that it is not about reading the stuff...its simply about noting down any and everything relating to any and every client of the firm. So the whole day spent reading, or rather, going through 24 newspapers and 11 maagzines! At the end of it, if you were to ask me, what was the news, probably i wouldnt remember a thing since the only thing i was tracking was aerated beverages, shoes, liquor, telecom, heavy machinery, television, computers, u name it!
Before, i realized, the day was over and my boss, a lady, no less, asked me to cut all those articles that mentioned anything remotely related to any of the above and many more. Once the articles were all cut, they were to be pasted on white sheets of paper, photocopied in sets of three and one copy faxed to the respective clients. I came to the office at 9a.m. and left at 9p.m. on my very first day at work! And all that i got was gummed fingers!

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