Attempt Two: The Arrivals

Headlines can be misleading. Almost all of them are. So is the heading of this post. I am not going to talk about my arrival but it looks like this is an arrival season. First the chairman arrives, which he rarely does. Then arrives the most awaited new DGM for my department, which he does from Bhilai. Trust me when I say that anyone coming to this plant that too from Bhilai will be far more disappointed than the Lalu Yadav not able to form the government in Bihar. Will come to this later.

So chairman arrives and we have this whole bunch of housekeeping going on inside the plant. The steel plant is shining as if it were a software industry leaving me to wonder why don't they do it on a regular basis. And then I found out the reason. Work has been shut in the plant for 2 days to decorate and to keep the area clean. All for arrival of one person. The loss making plant may incur some more loss but it must look clean. The customer delivery might be delayed but the chairman should not see the working of his plant. But then everyone wants to keep him happy and the end result is as expected. No talks on salary hikes, no talks on bonus, no talks on employee benefit; just some general blah blah of taking the plant to profit as if we didn't know anything about that.

So as the chairman leaves, the very next day our new DGM, with lots of hope and excitement for new place, arrives at out place. He enters the department and just in time I get to watch the expression on his face. I am not a very social person and hardly able to read the body language of other people. But that expression on his face, unmistakeably, was of utter shock. I would give him credit that he was able to conceal that within matter of seconds, but God.. He was shocked, as was I when I first entered the room. In a modern day computers department you at least expect to see a terminal and PC with P1 processors. But here it is. Can't be helped.

As far as I am concerned, just a formal introduction was enough. And that ends the day. Hope to write again sometime. :)