Day One Hungama

Fresh in my memories - first day at Titan – Sep 15, 1989. I am sure thousand and odd people might have already had the similar experience. We were at our adolescent age.

When you look at the group of new joinees standing on the side of main gate, you would notice some arrived with their parents to join No. 3, 4, 5 – Sipcot Industrial complex. Few would be in their school uniforms with holy ash in their forehead and rest were near the petty shop with filter cigarettes between their fingers.

Fine, I got a job now, but what’s next? After all, what’s this job all about? How did they select me for this job? When am I returning back to native? – so many unanswered questions running in our mind as our eyes get stuck at hundreds of those same age group employees walking towards the main gate with their identity card hanging in their chest. You may overhear their murmurs pointing at you as ‘New Joinees’.

Some of the new joinees would know their school seniors or locality guys working in Titan. They would have already got ‘insider information’ regarding ‘what is shift, what are the timings for first, second, third or general shifts, how difficult it is to reach at 5:30 a.m. during winter for first shift breakfast’ etc., etc. Those who do not have this information would panic a bit on hearing these unorganized information (like the ones who invest based on NDTV Profit market analyst's recommendation) . Parents would have already started their ‘advice campaign’ to their dear ones on do’s and don’ts.

Over a period of few months, you would notice the guy who came with holy ash in forehead would have picked up a filter cigarette in his hand and the guy who had filter cigarette on the first day has become a fabulous speaker at Hosur Rotaract Club delivering speeches at Victory Shine Hotel. The guy who came in school uniform would have costumed himself with denim jeans and t-shirts, roaming in his Hero Ranger terrain cycle around Dharga streets at 5.30 p.m.

In subsequent posts, am going to share with you, how Titan as an organization, contributed to such transformations for good in these individuals.

… to be continued