PART - III - RAJINI vs NEELA
Vijayakumar shrugged his shoulders. "O.K it is up to you to believe or not. Whatever I said were true to the best of my knowledge... " Rajini interrupted, "Ok ok Vijay, cool down, Now don't start writing resumes with declaration statement. letz go inside dude" Vijayakumar accompanied them with the keys, as they went inside the company. There were dusts all around the place. All the systems wore a dirty look. It seemed as if the place was abandoned for years. Rajini went through all the rooms including the room where Chandralekha's condemned system was kept.
Prabhu : The company interior is fine except for the dusts and dirt all around. I think once we clean this place would look great. (turns to Vijayakumar) Sir , can you please arrange for people to clean this place, We would be occupying this by the end of this Aadi** month
[Aadi * - Tamil month, considered generally inauspicious for any new events, occasions such as marriage, house warming etc.,]
[Vijayakumar looks unhappy]
Vijayakumar : Sir, so you have decided to occupy this place. Isn't it? I think you would have got this company at Aadi special discount price. Havent u read papers regarding the frauds related to Aadi purchase?
Rajini : ok ok vijay. Cool down. Do what Prabhu says. Come on Prabhu let's go. I think Joe has to slog today in office. Is it not Joe? So let's hurry
Prabhu : Hey jyo, have u put urur papers at your office?
Jyo : Not yet, I would do that on Monday pa.
[And so they leave the place..But none of them noticed Vijayakumar's eyes as it turned devilish for a moment and then returned to normal]
At this point let us take a break and get to know something about Prabhu – Jyothika 's flash back for a moment.
Both Prabhu and Jyothika were software engineers working in different companies. Jyothika as u know was working for VBA company while Prabhu was working in XYZ company. XYZ company was a client to VBA Company and had been outsourcing some of its works to VBA. Once when Jyothika was on a visit to XYZ company for deploying their application, she also deployed her heart into Prabhu's. Inspite of both working in Software companies for a number of years, without proper planning, they decided to get married as soon as they fell in love. Only after marriage they came to realize the problems that could be faced by a software couple, especially when they were working in different companies. In order to solve some of those problems, Jyothika proposed an idea to start their own firm for a better future.... Prabhu accepted that idea and hence with the help of his influential father, he bought stakes in LMRV Software Company and owned it. Rajini was their family friend and a leading network specialist graduated from Massachusettes Institute of Technology (MIT) in America. He was an Independent Network security consultant for many leading companies including VBA Software Company. His job was to give consultation and ideas regarding network setup, educate network administrators of the company for a stable and secure network and help them related to network issues. Neela , the other character we had seen, was a Sr. Manager in VBA Software company. Being the daughter of the company's CEO , her position , was definitely not a hard earned one.
Location : VBA Software company, Monday Evening
Rajini, scheduled to work in night shift, walked in to office at 6 pm, just as Neela was coming out for the day.
Neela : Hey Rajini, I would like to have few words with you
Rajini : Oh sure, what is the matter
Neela : Rajini, you are very lucky.
Rajini : (confused) : Why?
Neela : I myself am admiring u la, thatz why....
Rajini: (Smilingly.) Oh!!!..
Neela : Looking at our company's market value, salary figures, many ppl, more talented and experienced than you, have applied for the prestigious Sr.Network Admin position. Not only from Chennai but also from US and UK. But I don't want to take any one of them. Our company needs a Network Admin like you. I went through your career profile and was very much impressed. People told me, somewhere in our earlier part of our career when we were juniors, without knowing each other, we had worked together in a project. I don't remember all that. In the rapidly changing IT field, only back up admins would be storing the old data.
(Rajini smiled as Neela continued)
Neela : I don't know why…When you swiftly found out the problem the other day, when everyone of us were thinking it is a software bug, I liked your ability to think quickly.. When you stepped into help for Jyo, I liked ur team spirit, When you took the responsibility in your hand and argued on behalf of other employees, I liked your leadership skills, When u dared to talk straightly to me and even advised me, I liked your communication skills. Above all I liked the enthu with which you fix the problems. Five characters.. These five characters had impressed me a lot. (Pauses and then continues)
I want everything best for our company. From the security we employ at the gate to the software to secure the network I want everything as best. You are one and the best. Having a productive guy like you in our company, we can proudly show to our clients abroad about what we can do. I would like to have you as Sr.Network Administrator working full time for our company. Now tell , aren't u lucky. Even I am appreciating you. Come and collect your offer letter from my dad tomorrow. Probably you would feel shy. I would get the offer letter for you and get it to you tomorrow. O.k? Good boy..
Neela started to leave, saying this. Rajini waited for a moment, then clapped his hand and called "Maa'm.". Neela stopped and waited.
"Just a minute.", Rajini said and walked stylishly towards her.
Neela : What?
Rajini: (softly but firmly) You had told about your wish. Havent asked me yet? (pause) I don't want to join your company as Network Admin…
Neela was shocked as she dropped her company ID down which swiped her out. Just as her card swiped off, a smiling Rajini take out his employee ID and swipes in (BGM and this action is done in a slight slow motion)
Rajini: (smiled and continued) You want a productive employee for your company….. I want a productive company as my employer (in terms of salary). Your company….is not one such.
Neela gets angry and frustrated.
Neela : you don't know about our company. If we plan to employ one we will go to any levels to hire them.
Rajini : (laughs) Babe.., you had listed my 5 characters. I have another character too. Sixth character. This Rajini's sixth character. Don't try to see that. You would feel sorry for that. Neela : Rajini...Rajini : You don't know about me. My Network........... Isolated Network........ Never try to breach it.
Neela : Can I ask you if you are planning to join any other company for full time
Rajini went near her, and said Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. and walked into the office.
An upset neela grumbled "Having rejected my offer, let's see how you or the company you are gonna join survive".
(TO BE CONTINUED...)
