we’d like dates

Our placement season hasn’t started as yet.Most of my friends in other engineering colleges have drawn blood i.e. landed cushy jobs and are at a relatively better off position than me.They can lean back ,heave a sigh,give a pat on their backs and say to themselves “After all, these three years at college were worth the effort”.Well I am not sure about the E word here ,as in my case it was mostly fooling the teachers and saving my skin.

This Saturday a company called Trilogy came for an off campus recruitment.However they were deprived of a few blue eyed iitians because the authorities thought it wasn’t such a good idea after all.So the test was cancelled .The pre placement talk was given and we were treated to a not- so- grand luncheon at the Park, Kolkata.Now this company splurges a lot on goodies;bags,t shirts,mugs and all those stuff.So once the ppt is done this HR lady comes up and with a perfect figure and a perfect HR smile pasted right across her face (she was just trying to do her job.That is what she’s paid for)asks us about what kind of goodies we’d like.

HR lady:” Guys we have a few bags for you that you can collect before you leave”
the crowd passes all kinds of smart comments.
HR lady:(flashing the perfect HR smile again)”Okkay so what do you guys like?We always get these bags for you and mugs and t shirts.We always wonders what you kids from IIT like ?”
some smart chap:“We’d like dates”

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A recent episode in my department just made me think how selfish people can get sometimes.Now they are supposed to be the the much cliched “cream of the nation”,students with high self esteem ,pumped up egos and I am sure “high moral values”.I am absolutely non commital ,without a stance of my own regarding this issue because i don’t want to sound politically correct or incorrect or whatever.You can call this lack of opinion or a lack of interest in whatever happened.Its all a part of the rat race I guess.Rats racing for that coveted piece of cheese.I just feel I have been thrown into a bunch of savages,who are living in some sort of compromise.” The alternative would have been eating each other up and dying in the process”.

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I don’t remember where I read it,or heard it from but just can’t help laughing at it
“The liver is a sinner,so punish it”

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