400 Days at Reckitt Benckiser

Its been quiet a journey and i request each one of u to do this bit and take us thru a virtual tour of ur stint at the firm that u re presently acquainted with for the tenure u have spent. I am sure, however good or bad, you guys surely would have something to recall and relish just like how dumb our class was, but still we managed to find the tiny portions of fun quotient in it.
It was November 27th, 10 days post the date on the offer letter I stepped into the Global Service Center of Reckitt Benckiser India Ltd. Since then there have been so many adventures and roller coaster rides. There have also been extremely boring days where i do nothing but toggle between my chat window and blog window and at times hindu.com ;) Tenure at Reckitt is of 2 forms: 1st as a Project Trainee and then as a Management Trainee currently. Its all been based out of Gurgaon/Delhi office. The office I work for is called as the GSC - Global Service Center, which is basically like a Infrastructure, application development and support team for the business guys who in turn use this application for buying and selling stuff. This is a very mundane definition. But, yes, this is what my office is meant to be - a back processing/IT center for the company.
The underlying fundamental in our work culture is - people drive technology and we are not Technocrats. Ithu thaan punchline. Atha revolve panni thaan work assignment and stuff. I was given a training on Technology X and Technology Y on the 1st two weeks. The 3rd week I was put into a Technology Z which is apparently the product of Big Bulls Firm ABC. I went in and came out thru many doors of that application and today i support it globally and administer it for all users. Around 2000 users and atha base panni support, troubleshooting and developments. Atha thavara intha journey la I was also put into another vertical D which is basically revolving around Technology S. Then athayum ukanthu from scratch oru Top Gun kooda work panen. Not much of contribution as he himself is a show stopper - so learning opportunities less.
Irunthalum i am part of that team also. Now that Top Gun has reported for his marriage and i have taken over the application and vertical for the interim and i am kind of messed up as i am not an SME like him in this. Paravala - still surviving thru doing back 2 back shifts and extremely impossible working hours. Naan sonaal yaarum namba maatinga. There would have been atleast a Quarter that I would have spent my nights in the office - meaning a 24 hour bombshell.. I walk in at 10 and walk out the next day morning 7.
And, not for a surprise, its not just me who does these things. There are a set of driven people whom i work with who do the same. Ippo after all these days i have been pulled into a 3rd technology JKLMNOPQRSTUV - the abstract abbreviation itself is so big as the application is the business critical Tier 1 app.:) atulayum konjam konjam kai vituruken. Lets see - athu thaan yen future endru predict panren. But who knows - its been a crazy journey with a particular fun fact - There has been not a hour of the day that I have not been in office. :)