If there is anything more arbit than that phone call, Its your putting it up on this blog! Or did I miss the point?
maxdavinci
· 1 year 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...
Banno
· 1 year ago
What did he want of you, anyway? But this is the age of random phone calls, isn't it?
Tamanna
· 1 year 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.
Priti
· 1 year ago
LOL You should have played along a bit more.... :D
silverine
· 1 year 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
Nishanth
· 1 year 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!!!
Nishanth
· 1 year ago
significance of MALLU NAME in the conversation**
BTW.. it was not reading anything enclosed within tags :D
RukmaniRam
· 1 year 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!
Salil
· 1 year 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.
purvapar
· 1 year ago
tee hee hee
mustave been an MBA.. :P
Meow
· 1 year ago
Wouldn't it be awesome to see the look on that poor guy's face?
Shrinidhi Hande
· 1 year ago
you cut it short abruptly... could have talked some more to find out what exactly he wanted...
nidhi
· 1 year ago
poor PR guy - must've been working on some 'database' boss shoved down his diamond print socks!
Lakshmi
· 1 year ago
Mediocre :( By Sidin standards.
Sidin
· 1 year 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...
Sidin
· 1 year 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.
Sidin
· 1 year ago
You mean to say that real life incidents in my life are not fun enough as per my standards?
Oh. Sigh.
Nikhil Narayanan
· 1 year 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
purvapar
· 1 year 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)
purvapar
· 1 year ago
do ppl actually wear diamond print socks??
ive never even seen them on sale..
Rohan
· 1 year ago
That's Kandy F-O-triple X!
Sorry, slight OCD condition.
Rohan
· 1 year 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?
Lakshmi
· 1 year ago
Nopes. I imagine Sidin, being himself, has a super exciting super fun life. Some incidents though aren't fun enough for public consumption.
Paras Sharma
· 1 year 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!
Archana
· 1 year 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
Archana
· 1 year 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 ;)
Omya
· 1 year 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) :-)
Nishith Kumar
· 1 year 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.
Manasa
· 1 year ago
ROFL.. couldn't imagine how that fellow's expression might've been :D
engineerindisguise
· 1 year ago
ROFLMAO.... Sidin: hello...Sidin RPRP: yes Sidin:then who am I?? RPRP: hello Sidin
kalhua
· 1 year ago
oh do dip your toe in the field of law~!!
MOURYA
· 1 year ago
yet don't just dip toe but lick in the field of law
arian
· 1 year 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?
gelatin
· 1 year ago
what the fuck is this? fuck urself
blade
· 1 year ago
sorry for the previous comment
Aditya
· 1 year 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 :)
Logi-call
· 1 year 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.
All Comments
Or did I miss the point?
You should have played along a bit more.... :D
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
it adds up to the humor though,,.. ;)
keep writing brotha...and you rock as usual!!!
BTW.. it was not reading anything enclosed within tags :D
I tend to agree with Priti. You should have played along a bit longer.
Good one. Keep them coming.
mustave been an MBA.. :P
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...
Only during our internships I assure you.
Oh. Sigh.
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
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)
ive never even seen them on sale..
Sorry, slight OCD condition.
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
Or maybe not, lawsuits and defamation cases are hard for people who are almost always on the brink of selling out their kidneys ;)
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) :-)
Sidin: hello...Sidin
RPRP: yes
Sidin:then who am I??
RPRP: hello Sidin
Please take some time out to post again!