Brain-washers Inc.
Among the load of things I’m doing post the social not-working era, I add my short visit to my possibly future employers’ Development Center in Pune. I have returned from a day long workshop, having witnessed first-hand, the effects of brainwashing. And what I say is no exaggeration or Hyperbole. It was brain-washing which we were oblivious to as long as we stayed within the confines of their sprawling IT park.
As a part of some new Spark thing which Infosys has apparently introduced to reach out to the potential IT future generation, all us new recruits were called over for a tour of our most probable working location at the Pune DC. The day started off with an address by some Management level employee, whose former employers include some real big IT companies. The way she presented the training programme and the work environment at the company was just the start of a long day of systematic brain-wash.
Soon after the boring stuff about some process method and profit demographic, we were herded to the food centre for lunch. Needless to say, the damn place holds around 5-6 restaurants, 10-12 fast food joints and this without counting the branches of popular chains of restaurants. Hunger #FAIL. And lunch, as everything else there was fantastic given the choice at hand. I did not have the fixed buffet thing that was free for all, instead I bought myself a host of other food I was comfortable with and YOU shall not brand me Lord Fuckland/Falkland/Fockland for this.
An intense activity where we were divided into groups and made to plan a project and then try and find pitfalls in others’ projects was pretty fun. I successfully managed to Rob a bank and made sure a movie bombed at the B.O, a marriage failed and lame attempts to complete assignment work in lectures resulted in rustication. WIN indeed. Part of all these insane activities were a guy and a girl working for Infosys not much older than any of us. And again, I believe they were particularly trained in Brain-washing young minds because they were successful.
Only when I was safely out of that park did I realise the amount of lure politics I encountered. Safe to say, I am OK. But I expect it won’t be long before I actually go work for Brain-washers Inc. Fail was successfully averted all day.
