The day I received my Joining Letter...

Hi Friends,

Here comes my first post.

A year after I got the offer letter, I got a call from a friend saying that he got the joining letter and the ILP would be in Trivandrum. Till that time, I had heard enough about the training centre in Trivandrum and bubbles of happiness started flowing through by blood with the thoughts of ILP. From that moment onwards, I desperately waited for my joining letter.

Days passed, and still there was no sign of any courier on my name and suddenly one day I got a call from another friend of mine, who had received the offer letter along with me. In all, there were four of us. She told me that she's just received the joining letter and ILP would be in Trivandrum. Well, that was quite expected. I had almost made my mind for ILP in Trivandrum. I started googling around for more information about the training centre at Trivandrum and about the ILP itself. Few days later, when I was just relaxing at home, I got a call from third friend and my patience collapsed. Now, I eagerly wanted to know about what had happened to my Joining Letter? Many questions starting popping up in my mind, did they forget to send me the letter? Did it get lost in the transit? What if I don’t get the letter on time? Should I call HR? Many of them illogical...

And finally the day came. One fine morning, I saw a courier person at my door with a big white cover in his hand with three bold letters written on it in blue color - "Tata Consultancy Services". I literally jumped with joy. I was so happy to see my joining letter that I had almost forgot to sign the courier slip that the person was asking me to sign.

With the great excitement, I opened the Joining Letter and for next few moments I couldn’t believe my eyes. I was stunned. The shocking thing that I saw in that letter was the place of joining. It was not Trivandrum; it was Hyderabad. I was completely thoughtless for a minute. It was totally unexpected.

But after so much of wait, I had at last received my Joining Letter :-)