I am meeting dozens of new people, every day nowadays. I know I am in a new country with new surrounding faces, but even then this seems really strange to me. I would meet eventual strangers and get into conversations. I finish my part time work at midnight and the time I wait for the bus is the hotspot. Ok, now where do I work? I work at end of the Retail Supply chain management; delivering customer service and plateful the customer with the advantage of viewing the products in the allocated positions. That was a MBA definition of my job profile. If you ask my dad, he will say “Oorkai bottle label otturan”. Literal conversion means that he is sticking labels for pickle bottles. But that’s not what I am doing, rather some where close by. I work at a departmental store as night filler.

I remember the days I used to get cursed for doing something really bad. It would be a common situation for me, especially when the marks are out or after the end of a match. This was the curse I would get. I remember that nowadays and sense how true is that now?! Imagine my career ends with filling the shelves in a supermarket with some nuts in a strange land called Australia. Bird Seeds, Nappies, Condoms (yeah!), Toilet papers (my specialty)….. How wonderful?! What a thinking? May be a statue of mine should be erected next to the Light House; with a roof cover top facility, to avoid the crows from shitting on my statue head.

Coming back to the talks with the stranger, every single time it would drift into the PR talks. 90% of strangers I met at midnight are crazy to be frank and out of that 100% are men. The ratio of desi’s is to foreigners change, all though I haven’t really met a large number of foreigners at that time of the night. If I see some one he is sloshed; I mean it. If these guys here drink, which they do almost 24x7, man they are DRUNK!.

After the initial head start it would proceed into, “International Marketing & Strategy?, you don’t want a PR?”. I have noticed this trend. This is where it boils. The guy would be studying accounting or IT. He would say “I am doing accounting” as though he is doing something at Harvard Business School. I would already be worn out, dead beat and sleepy after a heavy shift and then these champions come clinging on to me. From where do they come and to where they go, no ones knows. Balls to PR! Who the hell wants it past midnight! Let me hibernate please.

God save accounting and IT students in Australia…..oops sorry I forgot, Desi accounting and IT students a special mention, please God!!!

Btw I don’t do the Filler job anymore. I have changed my job profile. I work at end of the Retail Supply chain management helping the customer to get their products priced at the market price. Now that’s billing boy at the counter!!! ;)

Filtered by Sambhar….