TVS called me to work as Engineer in their team on July 9th of this year.
Initial 5 days were really fantastic. Hosur is a nice place to live; specially the climate part is really soothing. TVS is a company of culture and discipline. I liked the greenery inside the factory campus, Pure vegetarian food in Canteen, the co-operative nature of workers, the community feeling of Team TVS specially. We are totally 50 Engineers who joined TVS directly through Campus this year and One of us already left (bythe time of writing this article.).Sometimes I feel proud to be with my new friends—to be the member of this new wing of extremely smart, enthusiastic, talented Engineers.3 of us are from fairer sex. Most of us are Mechanical Engineers, a few Electrical engineers, very few Chemical Engineers and Electronics and Communication Engineers. My branch of Engineering is midway of Communication and Electrical Engineering, Electronics added to it, we were total 3 from my specialization.
Lets start the story now---
I easily mixed with my new companions; all (I think so) appreciated my happy nature and became my friends in a very less time span.
My friends Elected me as their coordinator (which neither they nor I took Seriously ever)., but I think at some point of time I could not retain my that so called jolly nature because sometimes I used to miss home too much and sometimes the bound ness to be there for nine hours fifteen minutes without any work was too much.
This happened in college as well as here that I was given an image of short tempered and emotional person. Once I was also given the title of “Mr. Headache “ also from the batch.
Here I realized that how quickly people make an opinion about other fellows without going in deep of matters, and at last knowingly or unknowingly we have to go in defensive mode to save our image, this we do because we care for others and at the end of the day we want that people should remember us in a good way. I also could not go beyond this worldly desire, this ‘ GorakhDhanda’ that people should recognize us, they should respect us etc. etc.. I need to go beyond this pity human behaviour.“ I need to work on this issue.”
By the word ‘issue’, the thing which will come in mind of all we TVS Engineers is the word “No Issue’, which is a pet word in here in TVS. Instead of saying ‘It’s OK’, we are always listening this word from our 1st day at TVS,
But Some Issues happened particularly with me, which sometimes creates ‘not so good’ feelings about particularly HRD of this Company…
Here In Hosur this is a tradition of giving ten times of rental charge as advance to house owner . Fair chances are that TVS people set this trend and henceforth our company gives at max. Ten times of HRA as advance for rental purpose on production of stamped agreement. The rule is that at the time of retirement or at the time of leaving the company we shall repay the advance to the company. I thought twice and decided to invest part of this money on the present house which was not in very good condition, I always wanted to be in good house staying alone(better to say in Solitude), this was not a very good idea for others but this was my choice (and may be this time I was left out because I was alone), So I convinced my house owner to make an agreement of higher amount, I thought that this is my money and I will anyway repay it to the company , The house Owner is also from the same company and he also affirmed that he will add some more luxury there. The thing which creates resentments about HRD is that I was asked too many questions regarding more advance, and when I got irritated and replied back firmly, the issue became worse and I had to postpone my official trip for one day to visit GM (HR).
At last I had to tell those persons that you better don’t give me advance but don’t question the sanctity of my agreement.
Any way matter was solved.
I learnt so many things from this incident in a practical manner, the first and foremost thing was that—people are ready to bash you at every point and you have to take care of your prestige.
The inter-departmental transactions and communication at the company needs improvements, the real example of this was our dealer visit. Being a trainee we were under TQC Department and at the last moment marketing department told people that without certain training we cannot go for Dealer visit. At least 15 persons had to cancel their reservations. Also too much confusion was created for choosing dealers.
After Dealer visit, we did one small projects individually inside the factory, I went for Supplier visit in Mysore then, Vice President (HR) had to give an important presentation to us. No information was provided to me regarding that, and I missed that session.
à After our Project we were supposed to go to respective departments but Our Deployment Interview was postponed. We were not having any work to do for two days.
With the encouragement of Chief Trainer we started doing some group activities. After sometime, in the absence of any supervision people started playing sports inside a seminar room. I also participated in one game, which involved chasing and running. I ran after a friend and I took the help of the wall (supposedly) to stop myself but this mere incident broke that wall, cause that wall was of some softer material meant for A.C.
All my friends advised me not to report this to our trainer, by accepting it I did another mistake, cause all these fellows got scared when official persons asked them about this, and then the same friends forced me to confess for breaking the wall.J.
(Wasn’t all were responsible for playing sports like that and playing cricket etc. inside seminar hall).
During My deployment Interview I insisted upon putting me in Research & development department but I was given Central Purchase Department (The same GM (HR) was there also), which was not my first choice. Most of us got their first choice.
I was really depressed as my temperament was of a Scientist; I really wanted to put my head in Research and new product development.
I wanted to meet our Vice President (HR) to take his guidance in this regard, I consider him as a very nice , gentle and integrated person, I was sure that his guidance will help me and my depression will get off, but I was denied to meet him indirectly by the HRD.
Anyway I persuaded myself by thinking that I will thrive in any work given to me.
à Now some more good incidents---
The sweetest days of our Three-month training were when we went for two-day camp at “Vivekananda Kendra” For stress management programme. I really enjoyed the presence of Eminent Writer “Dr. H.R. Nagendra”, I read One of his book before and it became my favorite book ,now I was meeting with him. I discussed about spirituality and meditation with him. The 2 days were really relaxing and I was near the nature .I met with really nice students there. I also participated in Debate Competition and won 1st prize there.
Apart from this—We had hand on experience for fire safety, which was exciting and trainer was having very jolly nature.
The good moments with my friends are really memorable, many a times we went Bangalore together, we do organize get-together parties monthly.
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I do work for 3 wheeler systems now in central Purchase department , many good incidents are yet to happen at TVS.
Jaihind…
