Wednesday, July 12, 2006

 

An open letter to Ms. Sugandhi

Dear Ms. Sugandhi,

Whoever you are, wherever you are, may God bless you with a job soon. You getting a job is very important for me, in fact it is no exaggeration if I say, more important for me than it is for you. You may wonder why I have become such a desperate wellwisher of yours. Soon you will know.

When I joined my first (and only) job way back in 2002 after finishing Engineering, I got a cell phone. I used to enjoy it very much for obvious reasons (You've started getting so much money every month, you would like to have some luxury right?). It was an Airtel connection and I hardly used to receive calls from unknown people. At the end of year 2004, my handset went bad and I was too lazy to get a new one, I didn't find it so much a necessity and by then, the initial excitement in having it as a luxury had abated.

Comes March 2006 and I am sure of a change in my life and hence my needs. I get a good GATE rank and I am going to join IISc. There is definitely a need to tune my life-style and hence I get a new Nokia handset. I go for a Hutch prepaid connection, since it is the cheapest one which has good network too.

I don't know what made me choose that number. There were many others, but I ended up choosing this one probably because of my affinity towards odd numbers and especially 7. But I never imagined in my wildest dreams that it would bridge a new relation between us.

I don't remember when exactly it all started. Mostly around end April-May. One afternoon I was so tired that I wanted to sleep very badly. I couldn't get sleep because I was too much tired. I put on music and was successful in forcing some sleep. As I was about to enter the world of dreams, my cellphone rang. I cursed myself for not switching off the mobile phone before sleeping and looked at the number, it was not the one I knew. As I answered the call, I heard, "Hello, Is this Ms. Sugandhi?" Needless to say how disappointed I was, to wake up and to answer a wrong number. That was the first time I came to know about your existence.

Next day, I was at office in an important meeting, my phone rings. A different unknown number. Again, "Is this Ms. Sugandhi?" I say, "No." The person does't stop. "Do you know where's Sugandhi Ma'am? We need to contact her urgently".

Dearest Sugandhi, you have become an ineluctable part of my life ever since. You haunt my cellphone all the time. I receive calls from various job-consultants and HRs at rate of 7 per week on an average. Some of them with real interesting offers, some to discuss interview timings etc. You know, I have secretly enjoyed answering them to some extent, when I had no better work to do. But I don't prefer to receive them when I am expecting calls from my friends or when I am busy at my work or while sleeping. I don't think all the HRs enjoy my sarcastic remarks, tho' some might. Even today I received one and said, "Yeah, Sugandhi speaking" at first. But then was in no mood to continue the conversation.Instead, I tried to contact you. I had requested one of the job consultants to e-mail you on this (last week I suppose), since he said he had your ID. I even visited naukri.com(because one chap said he got your-oops! sorry, my-number there) to see whether I can get your contacts. They were of no use, hence this blog, hoping that one day you might read this and feel honoured; I couldn't have written an open letter to anyone better. I hope that day, you will be courteous enough to buzz me and tell why the hell you chose my number to put in naukri.com, or in case you had owned this number once upon a time, why you did not care to update your profile.

Finally, I hope you didn't miss any real opprtunity due to the wrong phone number given.

With best regards,
Your wellwisher
Aparna

Comments:
very very fuuny..it happens..once u get a no..which was some1 b4...

and student life na..evry1 likes 2 hav hutch...
in IIT B: we hav 90% of students no. as hutch...
am also a fan of..last digit ending with "7"

a hav lot things 2 do with "7"
 
I thought that this was an earnest post, but this part was disturbing - I hope that day, you will be courteous enough to buzz me and tell why the hell you chose my number to put in naukri.com, or in case you had owned this number once upon a time, why you did not care to update your profile.

Are human beings not prone to err? And assuming you got a job thru naukri.com, would you really go and update your profile once you've got a job. I guess Sugandhi has gotten a job and is well-comforted to rectify this most probably unintentional oversight.

A largely nice open letter, and there were many ways to end it in better taste.
 
Dear Anonymous Reader,

Thanks for reading my post.

I guess had you known me, you wouldnt have asked this question. Yes, once I got a job, I would've updated my profile.It is my responsibility to do that.

If you think there are better ways to end it, you can go ahead and write your own blogs instead of preaching me. If you got such calls every day, let's see how well you'll end them.

One more point: When you are giving such comments, be bold enough to reveal your identity. Don't attack a writer from behind Burkha/Parda.

Regards
Aparna C K
 
Reply to the above -

In the years I've known you, you haven't changed. You've never ceased to amaze me! Had you known me, you'd not have asked me to reveal myself. It doesn't make a difference either way! Adios.
 
Now I am really curious to know who you are. Please mail me to aparnack at gmail if you dont want to reveal your identity here.
 
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