Voila, what a co-incidence :)-

Disclaimer: This post is based on a real life incident, which I have been a part of. Its been kept as abstract as possible. None of the content in this post can be assumed as fictious.

Let me write few lines, before I actually go into the co-incidence part of the post. My finger tips are itching very badly, to type something continously. :)- By the way, I am not kidding...

There have been many highlights of the year 2010, and also the last 2 months of the year 2009. You can take it as November and December.

November 2009, was the month when I attended my cousin's marriage at Hyderabad. Not sure why, but I fell in love with Hyderabad, may be the reasons I shall put across in another post (Yeh remember 100 posts by today itself :P ).

So by the time, I applied leave at office to attend marriage, I already had two offers in hand. One the company which I would join and the other, the company which I would end up rejecting, leading to this voila coincidence, thus leading to this voila - co-incidence post over here.

Ok, let me tell you something, whilst I was attending interviews for other companies, I had secretly also requested a cross domain transfer. One of my friend who was leading a team over there, called up whilst I was in Hyderabad, to have a one on one discusson. I did not tell him that I was resigning, but told him, will come back to Bangalore and then discuss on the same.

So the day after which I came back from Hyderabad, I had to resign and yes I think, I did. Let me also tell you about some funny incidents that happend at Hyderabad, and some of my other recollections over there, which made me really, really to fall in love with the place. Yes, but in the next post of course.

So now coming back to the original post, did I drift away too much, never mind.. I have loads to tell, half of which tends to remain in my head itself, what if I write too much in one or the other posts??

Ok... here it goes.. So out of the two offers, I ended up rejecting one of them and silently joined a new organization on 4th Jan 2010.

And after few months of travelling to ITPL, I was not enjoying my current stint, so thought of attending interviews yet again. And yes, there were few partners in crime for me, who were constantly inspiring me to attend interviews, who themselves had 8-10 offers between them. So I joined the bandwagon, only 3 months after joining the new organization.

Would you believe thats a short period, a very very short period. So short that, your previous interviewer would not have forgotten your name in those 3 months. If you bump into them they can easily recognize you, thats the honest fact.

So again, I landed up with an offer from a company. I had to go and collect the offer from their office, located at ........... well, I wont write that give away clue by the way. When I collected the offer letter from HR, the lady asked me, "Did you ever have an offer from XYZ company few months before?"

I said " Yes, that is true, but how do you know it?", I requestioned.

She said " I was the one who mailed you the offer ".

Then she asked " Why you rejected the offer? " to which I gave some answer which seemed to be OK with the HR lady.

Then she asked one more question " What is the guarantee, that we are gonna see you in one month's time?".

I said " I have no other offers as of how, so I am surely gonna join this organization".

To which she said " You have the offer from company XYZ rite?".

I was shocked. I never knew an offer can last that long. 2 + 3 = 5 months and that too after rejecting it.. What kind of a question was that, I was wondering..

I replied " That was few months back not now and went out ".

If you want to know what happend next, let me tell you, I ended up rejecting that company offer as well. I had to return the hard copy of the offer letter.

Never mind, there was a DTDC branch at ITPL, few minutes job.

So this was the Voila - HR - What a co-incidence episode. If you are wondering, how could I not know that she belonged to the XYZ company in the first instance itself, let ne tell you, I had been hired by a recruiter who reported to her. The HR lady had then mailed me the offer.

My partners in crime, wanted me to ask one question to the HR Lady which I could not. They wanted to know, why she left the XYZ organization.??? Never mind, I thought..
Cheers,
Sandeep

PS:: And yes, one of my partner in crime in my previous organization, went on to join Microsoft. Congrats for both and the other person joined a startup. Both are very happy and I would like to thank them for bucket loads of inspiration.