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  Mridul

  9 months ago

  If there is anything more arbit than that phone call, Its your putting it up on this blog!
  Or did I miss the point?
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  maxdavinci

  9 months ago

  LOL, it reminds me of the calls I got from recruiters while I was still in grad school. They were apparently impressed by my fantastic (non-existent)work experience...
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  Banno

  9 months ago

  What did he want of you, anyway? But this is the age of random phone calls, isn't it?
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  Tamanna

  9 months ago

  Makes you wonder how this conversation would have turned out if you hadn't given out your name when you picked up the phone.
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  Priti

  9 months ago

  LOL
  You should have played along a bit more.... :D
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  silverine

  9 months ago

  LOL!!
  
  Reminds me of calls I get from Barclays bank every day of the week.
  
  "Hello Ms Anjol Pildong? ( they actually said that) Since you own a Barclays Card, we are giving you a personal loan worth 1 lakh 50 thousand."
  
  "But I don't have a Barclays Card."
  
  So what madam, you can till avail of the loan!
  
  :D
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  Nishanth

  9 months ago

  One thing i m still wonderin is the significance of in the conversation.(aredey sidin athu .. :P)
  
  it adds up to the humor though,,.. ;)
  
  keep writing brotha...and you rock as usual!!!
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  Nishanth

  9 months ago

  significance of MALLU NAME in the conversation**
  
  BTW.. it was not reading anything enclosed within tags :D
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  RukmaniRam

  9 months ago

  You sure the person did not say "I have been *following* your work for a while now, especially in law firms and legal services"? Because that would have thrown the whole thing in a more hilarious direction!
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  Salil

  9 months ago

  Hello Sidin (I guess you will not respond 'no' to that address),
  I tend to agree with Priti. You should have played along a bit longer.
  Good one. Keep them coming.
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  purvapar

  9 months ago

  tee hee hee
  
  mustave been an MBA.. :P
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  Meow

  9 months ago

  Wouldn't it be awesome to see the look on that poor guy's face?
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  Shrinidhi Hande

  9 months ago

  you cut it short abruptly... could have talked some more to find out what exactly he wanted...
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  nidhi

  9 months ago

  poor PR guy - must've been working on some 'database' boss shoved down his diamond print socks!
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  Lakshmi

  9 months ago

  Mediocre :( By Sidin standards.
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  Sidin

  9 months ago

  In hindsight I should have.
  
  But then I was in the office you know. And you know how committed and focused us media types are when we are mired in work and... ok I can't even type that with a straight face...
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  Sidin

  9 months ago

  What?! You think we MBAs randomly pick up the phone and call people and ask them random questions?
  
  Only during our internships I assure you.
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  Sidin

  9 months ago

  You mean to say that real life incidents in my life are not fun enough as per my standards?
  
  Oh. Sigh.
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  Nikhil Narayanan

  9 months ago

  Sidin,
  That was a quickie. :(
  Guess you wrote the as-in-where-is story and with no contribution from you.
  Reminds me of something like minutes of a meeting.
  Go get a dose of steroids and come back in form!
  -Nikhil
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  purvapar

  9 months ago

  OKAY Sid.. I want an honest answer alrite
  
  WHAT if the PR Person had been a gurl? and sounded veryy *interesting* ahem...
  
  like that KANDY FOXX female sounded in the Hatke Virgin mobile ad?? :D
  
  would you have written an article pronto on legal stuff and resumed the chat.. or wud u still help her gently put her foot in her mouth? (my fingers actually did not want to type that last bit)
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  purvapar

  9 months ago

  do ppl actually wear diamond print socks??
  
  ive never even seen them on sale..
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  Rohan

  9 months ago

  That's Kandy F-O-triple X!
  
  Sorry, slight OCD condition.
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  Rohan

  9 months ago

  I am reading one another article saying, best peoples is learn from mistakes. Why not you are also, and revisiting this. Maybe re-editings?
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  Lakshmi

  9 months ago

  Nopes. I imagine Sidin, being himself, has a super exciting super fun life. Some incidents though aren't fun enough for public consumption.
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  Paras Sharma

  9 months ago

  Researches have shown that the IQ of PR professionals is slightly lower than Tupperware. So as a student of Psychology, I whole-heartedly support your rant!
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  Archana

  9 months ago

  LOL, reminds me of the time a job consultant called me after "carefully analyzing my resume and skillset" for a fantabulous position in ABC company in their XYZ department for their DEF implementations project.
  
  And guess what, I was the team leader for the ABC company's XYZ's departments DEF project and was looking at filling up sub-ordinate posts. Some fantabulous move that would have been! :D
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  Archana

  9 months ago

  By the way, Sidin writing on Law firms and legal devices.... thats one terrain you have left unexplored for so far. Poor chaps those, have dull lives indeed. You could spread a bit of cheer in there!!!
  
  Or maybe not, lawsuits and defamation cases are hard for people who are almost always on the brink of selling out their kidneys ;)
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  Omya

  9 months ago

  LOL! Reminded of a situation that I faced recently.
  
  My team was testing a software that would enable resume uploads on our corp website. To test it out, I uploaded mine. Guess what - an HR coordinator called back asking to set up a telephone interview.
  
  Astounded at her stupidity (since my resume clearly mentioned where I currently worked, it took a couple of minutes to stop laughing out load. And then I too proceeded to "put her foot not so gently in her mouth" (great line btw) :-)
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  Nishith Kumar

  9 months ago

  Sigh!!!I did precisely this(the phone calls) even after my MBA...And believe u me, as a private banker, the questions are far more random than the ones mentioned.
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  Manasa

  9 months ago

  ROFL.. couldn't imagine how that fellow's expression might've been :D
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  engineerindisguise

  9 months ago

  ROFLMAO....
  Sidin: hello...Sidin
  RPRP: yes
  Sidin:then who am I??
  RPRP: hello Sidin
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  kalhua

  9 months ago

  oh do dip your toe in the field of law~!!
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  MOURYA

  9 months ago

  yet don't just dip toe but lick in the field of law
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  arian

  8 months ago

  have you ever faced the innumerous calls loaded with personal loans of lakhs, of the free gold credit cards, and of the free sim cards? oh plz..why don't you blog once on them?
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  gelatin

  8 months ago

  what the fuck is this? fuck urself
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  blade

  8 months ago

  sorry for the previous comment
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  Aditya

  8 months ago

  Yeah,you had better be sorry! My apologies, Sidin. A jerk friend of mine used my ID to post that comment (Ironically, I'd asked him to read your blog and said that he'd like it.) Keep up the blogging. I'm still waiting for the second edition of your cricketing guide :)
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  Logi-call

  8 months ago

  Woow... this one is cool. Keep on posting this sort of unique posts. Also visit my blog Logi-call at http://logi-call.blogspot.com/ to give me some inspiration.
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  arun

  8 months ago

  wheres the next post???
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  A

  8 months ago

  Spam. Please delete.
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  Sidin Whereyoukut?

  8 months ago

  Hope you and the missus had a great Deepavali.
  
  Please take some time out to post again!
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