Monday, August 07, 2006

Funny Manager

My manager is pretty funny guy.He even says funny stories like has worn a brown shoe on one foot and black on the other to work. Never seen a manager like that. Once he asked me to attend a meeting saying it was really important. I tagged along with him and took a seat next to him in the auditorium. But the guys who were giving the presentation seemed ( without their knowledge) to be making a really good effort to put us to sleep. I didn't want to let my manager down by sleeping in the first meeting. I thought he wouldn't be too happy about it and with all the effort tried to keep awake. I don't know how it happened or when it happened. It just happened. No No.. I am not talking about love..I am still talking about trying to be awake. I somehow dozed off. When I regained consciousness, I woke up with an alarm and instantly looked at my manager to make sure he didn't catch me sleeping and I was sure he couldn't have, bcos he was sleeping too. Man!! That was one meeing. Next day, my team gets a mail from my manager saying that the project in which we had all dozed off had landed in his lap!! The project wouldn't be funded and if my manager wouldn't deliver the results on time, his job could also be at stake. One of my teammates asked him who hated my manager so much that they gave him such a job.
But my manager is pretty cool. I think I am one of the few interns who go to job at 9.30 am and come back at 6.30 pm. He has no issues with it.

Internship and summer

I am working for a fortune 10 company in new York city. My office is in wall street. The way I landed with an internship here is itself pretty amusing. It was my worst interview among all the interviews that I had, and the only company that made an internship offer. The work is OK. The pay is ludicrous. Since I didn't have much choice I had to end up taking this offer. My internship started in 3rd week of June. My classes and exams had got over on may 20. I worked my butt off for my prof till June 6. Then I did some paper work to come back and start internship on 20th June. I had a lunch with my boss and the team that I was going to be working with. I must say I was pretty amused. My boss was talking about his high school crush( or fling I am not sure), he was saying he met her in a school union and that he was seeing her after 15 years. It seems she had married a guy who was 15 years younger and my boss called it a marriage for convenience than anything else. Don't know what he meant. In his words " She was sooo zoned out man... That I rather felt like staring at my tattoo than looking at her". After an amusing dinner I took off to Rochester.
On 9th June I left to Rochester to spend some time with my uncle. While my classmates were working their butt off...I was chilling out in Rochester. Excellent place I must say. I also went to Toronto, Niagara falls, a few museums, amusement park, had a fun week with my uncle.