JOBBER MOUTHED!!!


I was sitting at the food court having my lunch. This was the first time such a thing has happened. I was sitting all alone. It was not the same few weeks back; few months back; few years back.

We were a big gang of 12 people. Over the years I have seen the group at the lunch table shrink. This shrink was worse than my pant becoming a jetti with my maid’s washing. When senior mgmt was all ga ga about people quitting and going, I was simply worried about the attrition in my group.

Now sitting all alone I too decided to look for a better JOB. I quickly called my friend to find out what is the first thing I should do. “RESUME!” he said. That very word made me weak. What would I put in as my work, achievement and strengths?? I decided to drop this whole plan of looking for a JOB. But with reassurances that resume is just for name sake I decided to stick to the plan.

Over the next few days I was done preparing my resume and uploaded it in one of the JOB portals. So many neetu’s, sheela’s, raman’s calling. It felt good to be wanted. Especially by women! For Job that is! All of them, wanting to know the same things. Years of experience? Current CTC? Expected CTC? A shiver went down my spine responding to the current CTC part. Few would be neutral, Few would say that’s it for 3 years, few others did the I-GET-PAID-BETTER Laugh!

At last, I was scheduled for an interview. I was a mainframes guy. All my friends who had attended mainframes interview with other companies told me that there is one question I can be sure off. “What is the difference between a SEARCH and SEARCH ALL in COBOL??” I decided to mug the answer, being, one was linear search and the other binary.

All set to face the challenge I went to the interview venue and walked confidently into the interview room. They questioned me about what I did in my current organization, my personal back ground, what I expected so on and so forth. But the magical question to which I knew the answer so well never came. I waited I waited and I waited. I was afraid if they take any more time in asking that question, I will forget the answer! I could take it no more. I decided to let it out.

They asked me why I was looking out for a JOB. I went like “there are 2 types of JOB search. SEARCH and SEARCH ALL. One is linear search and the other………”