Presentation

“Which group is this”, he barked. A very warm way to welcome after we have an appointment with you which was taken days in advance. After we had explained that we were the group who had the time slot for presentation he checked and rechecked finally satisfying himself that in fact it was us who had booked the slot.

“We are late”, ofcourse, we are late my intelligent old man and that’s cause u came late. The earlier group has been waiting for half an hour and we have been standing at this lonesome corridor for over 20 mins just to make you listen our interesting presentation( we have no interests whatsoever that you listen to it, just say u have an A and we are gone)

Sumit starts the presentation. Totally unprepared he is after having spent the last two days looking after his girlfriend who had fallen ill at this time of all the unearthly hours. Sir , ahem, as you see we..we…we have taken…selected….we are going to discuss about GE….discuss about the control systems in GE. Excellent start for this already annoyed fellow. His face had the expression as if the exercise is a waste. I surely believe that the whole exercise was a waste. Two days and nights gone on something silly like finding vague differences of a particular company. Sir, u must have lost your head for giving us something like that.

Anyways, he continued. This is the MSSM model. “Have I asked you to relate it to the MSSM model”, he interrupted. O yes sir u did. In not very candid terms that too. I remember myself cursing under bated breath when I heard the preposterous idea. “Sir, we are trying to relate it to all concepts of Management control system” (the paper that this unforgiving old wretch takes).
“if u can justify what u have done its fine, else u will see”, o o now comes a threatening. We are minion criminals who are justifying ourselves in front of the local superintendent. U look more like some rural blighter who has lost his way to his farms. We will “see” getting a grade not of our liking or the one mentioned above. O sir, pls, pls ,pls don do this to us. u make me sick old chap. Go wash your face in the rains.

Our beloved friend Sumit now dropped another bomb on the bald mans head. “sir, as you can already see whats given in the slide I shall move forward”, now this bought a smile to my face. It added a new dimension to this mundane Friday morning. The old fellow seems to have a bad egg early morning my friend and if u give him what you are- we have had it. Not hoping much though, I know fully well what sort of an enlightened fellow he is, I maintained the smile on my face and tried studying the expression on our old chap.

It showed, no, it shouted of disgust and horror. He nodded his head as if to show, now u will “see”. Sumit went on though, as if he is still with the love of his life. Unaware of the world and the ppt on the screen. Sir, sir, and aa…… yes the reward system is a bell rounded curve….sorry….GE follows a well rounded system…… no GE has a forced distribution system….i don remember whether he could manage to say what he wanted but he moved on. The very interested and attentive fellow had risen from his dreams and he said “next person”

That was an indication that I had to speak “ as Sumit was describing about the culture I would like to mention” I had just started which was the opportune moment for our sleepy head of a professor to interrupt. Are u talking about culture. HELLLLLLO!!!!!! GOOD MORNING!!!!!!! KOI hain rather KUCH HAIN… “yes sir, I was describing about culture so that I could then talk of the control processes….

“hmmm, carry on”, he said after he had finished the poking, disturbing frustrating business.
I went on describing about the culture and then I came upon the philanthropic activites, I had mentioned something about volunteerism when he suddenly found himself in a restless position, he couldn control his emotions rather his unemotional act, “is this what happens everywhere.
Yes sir, they have 3500 volunteers in india who undertook various projects last year. I have data on china…..cut….

“but according to the data I have its is not prevelant everywhere"
My dear old friend you have nothing better to do early morning. If not volunteerism they must have taken some other philanthropic project. They are in 140 countries and have CSR everywhere and a culture of promoting welfare…..

I think he must have see from my face that I didn take that remark in best regards and he was one of the last persons in my good books he decided he has troubled me enough and hence called for the next speaker.

I didn’t care much with what happened after that. The old blighter was in his own world as always and neither were we in any mood to please his wild imaginations.

Do whatever u feel like and we shall ofcourse “see”.