Joined NCR...and first few days...

Hi friends,
as i said m back with more. Its almost a week now since i hav joined my new company which is NCR Corporation. no no its not a govt. company as it seems with the name which has resemblence with National Capital region.its formally National Cash register. if u have used ICICI bank ATMs you must be aware of the organisation as you will see logo of NCR on almost all the ATM machines. ya ATM machines and self service equipments are the core business of this US based giant. they are listed in Fortune 500 list of most powerful companies in USA.and this development centre in Gurgaon is basically for providing IT and software services and support to all core business units of NCR spread over approx 100 countries around the world.So that was just intro to my new company. i had joined NCR on 10th of january as software engineer.

This was really a perfect beginning of new year with new place, new peoples and new work. and i am quite excited and enthusiastic abt the things i will be doing here. lets talk abt the experience i hav so far here in my first one week. this whole week mostly i was attending inductions which includes informative sessions abt company and its various departments. these sessions was really very important in the process of being used to and settle in the new
setup.these inductions was formal mostly so not much to talk abt them but i really wanna talk abt the induction session i had with Mr. Naresh Shetty the GM of this development centre in Gurgaon and he also happens to be the head of Enterprise Applications group in which i m going to work so he will be my highest boss here in office.

Although he talked abt various things like business ethics and the things which are must to succeed but one thing was core of the whole discussion was the dreaming is must to attain some thing. he told abt the importance of dreaming and then working to attain that dream.he also asked us abt the craziest dream we ever have in life, that was a intresting thing to answer becos everybody has some or other crazy dream and all are funny and intresting ones.

During the discussion he raised a question that was "are indians hardworking?"(or hardly working ha ha..) at first instance we found question funny because this is a well known fact around the world that ya we indians are very hardworking and thats y almost
everybody answered in affirmative.
but he was bit critical about this he gave an example and asked us that if we are given each of our necessity which every one wants to acquire in life(may be its levish life style, car, home and all) will then we be as hardworking as we are when we are trying to acquire those all things in life. he told us that here the difference lies in us and the americans. in his words "In america its really easy to acquire the basic things ,a person wants to live a comfortable life but even then they are hardworking" but he could not say that about indians in general. he also told us about the fact that he sees americans are the most hardworking society in the world as he did got chance to work with the people of various nationalities.

Although i was not as convinced with these point as he said abt indians but ya the whole of discussion was really fruitful and we didn't notice when those 2-2.5 hours was past. and when he finished we ya we all wanted more of it. Naresh shetty is an impressive personality with american accent in his english and ya had lot to offer to us from his experience. I am really looking forward to interact with him in future and i think i will soon having chance of that when i will be having one to one meeting with him as part of my induction which each new joinee has to go through.

apart from that session we too had some trainings abt the specefic tools which NCR uses for its processes and these trainings are still going on.

n ya on my third day only i got the chance to attend my first party at NCR. that was a new year bash and i was excited abt it. although i didn't no much of people apart from my team and the guys who were with me in the induction process. but still i wanted to attend it for more than one reasons. firstly i like to party.. yes wht to be surprised ya some of u will not believe me but don't know how i developed the intrest in partying and dancing for last few years now. and whenever i got chance to dance and enjoy i grab it with two hands and this was not exception i danced a lot for approximately 2-2.5 hours continuously. it was fun altogether. DJ was not so gud but still it was really enjoyable.we all enjoyed a lot some with drinks and some with out it. i was without it although the friend who was with me was having serious doubts about my claim as he saw me the way i was dancing.and secondly it was a chance to meet new people with whom me going to work in future so both my objectives were fullfilled by attending that party.

now lastly something about my experience with people i have interacted with. i found all very supportive and good be it my seniors in team or people in HR or my Cab mats all seemed to be nice and supportive. as i am new,passing most of my time with another new guy in my team named Asif Iqbal.i found him nice and helping.
will talk much about other guys and gals in my future posts and some more intresting incidents and discussions as they come along.
bye for now...but improved posts will follow soon...

and ya m waiting for comments too.. at least this time please each of u write your craziest dream in life this will be an intresting discussion. ok ok me also telling my craziest dream. infact i have various dreams which can be considered to be crazy like i wanted to be the member of indian cricket dream, i also wanna be Prime minister of India. but sadly i happen to be a software engineer. anyways m fullfulling one of the dreams (the dream to be a writer) atleast by writing this Blog..
also expect u to write ur craziest dream in comments...hope u will contribute..
Bye Take care...