Musings From My Heart's Canvas...

Traversing in the grand ocean of IT, we often have to take decisions which might not be the ones which make us very comfortable, but we have feeble chances of escaping them. Going thru the exit process @ hcl i never really did realise that it will ever come true that i am out of HCL. Since the time i came back from US and had put my papers with this company, i just felt the whole exit process to be more of a struggle rather than an official process. First when i was still giving resigning HCL second thoughts owing to the L1 visa that i was holding, i did not get any positive response from the HCL team. When i asked them if they could provide me a transfer to Bangalore they said no there are no projects available and we cannot transfer you there without any projects. Then when i asked them if they could provide me some UK project as i was interested in Onsite and wanted to be in a UK based project as my husband keeps travelling to UK, they said no right now we dont have any openings! After trying almost everything possible on my hands i put down my papers. Even then when i wanted to exit sooner by buying out the notice period they simply denied saying its out of policies now. I wrote numerous mails to managers i did not even know, explaining my situation to them but they just never responded. Finally after the long 2 month wait of the notice period when i came back to Chennai for my final formalities, they wanted to retain me!!?? The HRs woke up from their deep sleep just then as if the numerous calls i had made through out my notice period were non existant. The exit HR asked me one day before my LWD (Last Working Day) what actually my problem was and what the HR team could do to retain me!! I explained them why i had insisted on a transfer to Bangalore so much and why i had asked for UK based projects etc etc. Finally the HR was not ready to sign the no dues, rather she told me to meet her the next day and she said she can definitely provide me something promising by the end of the day. She asked me to give her a call by evening. I was kind of happy but i had made up my mind on joining Accenture which had already offered me a better CTC package and a job in Bangalore. But still i was expectant of something good coming up. Next day (which was my LWD) the HR said that they have a long term role coming up for UK and they can definitely refer me for that given the good feedback i had from my previous managers. They also said that i would have to wait for abt a month for that oppurtunity to come my way! But by then my bitter end of endurance had already shown up and i just decided to get my No Dues signed and collect my Resignation Acceptance Letter that day.

I couldnt believe i was actually sad at leaving HCL. It was a simple organization with some really stringent and unproffessional people i have seen in my life. But somehow workwise i was never lagging when i was with HCL. I always had challenging work and best of all...it gave me my one year in NY which was the BEST part of my proffessional carreer. Even while waiting in the montieth Rd Office which was the same office where i had attended an induction 2.5 yrs back, i somehow felt the comfort level which i am not sure if i will ever feel in Accenture. I knew a lot of people in HCL and somehow i was quite popular as well and i liked that feeling of being Ms. Popular! I liked the simple work environment where all people were bothered about was work!! It was boring when i was working there as the glamour quotient of the work place was way below zero and there was all work and no fun! But somehow me and some like minded teammates had found ways to find our own fun and relaxation times even in that busy and demanding work schedules. I cant believe i am saying this but i really wish i can relive my times in HCL. I am definitely gonna miss this one!