Shifting Stories

July 2016 ended with the news of two teams shifting  from KTS5 to HO, Asian Paints House. Those who had to shift were not at all happy with this idea. It seemed like being sent to a boarding school away from home. We (team EUC, team MDM, team FiCo) reluctantly shifted to HO third floor in Aug 2016. There are only two lifts, a semi-circular staircase, at the entrance of the third floor there is a cash counter. The desk is L shaped with only three drawers. There is a namesake pantry; too small to carry on with the chai talks but we kinda got adjusted to it. The only good thing I thought of in the initial days was, we could directly go to the canteen without getting drenched in the flying rains during lunchtime. I could see both past (Kalpataru Synergy) and future (Kalpataru Inspire) from my present desk (Asian Paints House). System’s family was going to shift in Inspire in Feb 2017. The only reason to go to KTS5 was Integration ++ and farewells; otherwise there was a cut-off from my Systems friends. Now there were face to face interactions with users; it was good as well as bad. I made many new friends. Other functions on the floor were Audit, Corporate Communications (Dipika Dubey and Arun Nair) and Accounts. The Accounts team had Sunita Mankar (my desk neighbour), Ninad Sonawane, Apurva Parab, Darshan Chaudhari, Swapnali, Kavish, Tinoy and Venkat Sir. Everyday I got to hear the keywords like PF, Pension, Sabbatical case, Gratuity, Factory, Differential interest, etc. It was quite interesting to listen something different and I was curious to know more. I saw those cheque rolls getting printed and too much of stamping and stapling. Amazing morning conversations included, “What points are you going to close today?” “Tumne promise kiya tha!” “I like your dedication” “The table should be clean” . This team has to work till late on month ends just to ensure that all get salary on time. It was nice to have them as neighbours, would definitely miss them. My area was a bit noisy and disturbing due to con-calls on adjacent desks. But I had to adjust with it, no other option!

Peaceful place in HO

By mid December, the whole IT floor shifted to HO. Now the family was split into three floors. We were already on third floor: Sayali, Chandu and the Basis team joined us. The first floor was then HR now IT. Second floor became HR-IT floor. It was fun finding out who sits where; going up and down! Lucky ones got the desks and luckier ones got the meeting rooms (Pocahontas) and cabins on second floor. Let’s look into one of the cabins: presenting you the Toy Museum made by the cabin crew (Poonam the captain, Kiran Chonkar, Abhishek Pillai and Satish).

Now our new place is ready and we are all set move there. The desk choice was a lucky draw. We had to pick chits today in canteen. We have a house warming pooja on 13^th Feb. I promise to write a picturesque blog on our new home. But before that just thought of penning down the six months of shifting to HO and watching the below picture!