tragiComedy

Recession was just a stranger to me till now. Today I met it in person , and even though it haunted me while the afternoon siesta, I still find myself optimistic while writing this post ( may be the reality has not just sunk in).

I called up some 10 HR people of various companies , and some would not believe it , I could not talk to even one of them , on my first call. It was lunch time alright , but well , does one ignore a call on ones personal mobile number?

Even the number from which I was calling is so easy to remember that it seems like a corporate number. Still?

Well , though I got a treble call backs. With each one of them informing me that they are on a hiring freeze. No problems , who says we want immediate recruitments ? We are aiming for Jan 2010 , that's like a few corporate light years away.

One of the companies told me that they would first place my seniors , then our chance would come . Fair enough.

One of the guys called company A , pursued it , and things looked very optimistic. Only to know that the HR person had changed the firm, and we were talking about some other company? When the HR person realized that , he fired us left and right.

A few calls would be put forth to pacify him. His new company is even better a brand [;)].

One guy called company C , started talking in Telugu , for 10 minutes , only to inform us that it wasn't company C , rather a bar in Hyderabad.

Company D , even though we were sure of the authenticity of the phone number , would tell us that it was a wrong number . Well what about basic courtesy company D?

Recession has taken its toll. Some of the people around me have been telling me that. Seniors told me that the conversion ratio of bringing the companies to the campus to the companies contacted is a menial 5% , that too in the good times . Those were some things I could not understand.

That truth .... somehow seems to sink in now!