Just happened to tresspass your Linkedin profile and then couldn’t resist sneaking into your website and glad I was that I committed the sin. Great writing, and having seen a lot of “HEs” and “HIS” reviews, can relate to it very well.

Your acetates anecdote reminded me of something different. I had joined this firm as a fresher from a B-school and a senior manager had just got transferred from that office to a plant location. The senior manager talked me into taking the whole acetates file from the HR Director’s office ( all the HR goody stuff that the HRD had collected over the years) and made me phototcopy all of them when HRD was travelling.

I did manage to give him loads of photocopies but also gifted him a burnt drum and quite a few burnt acetates to take to the plant location.

I digress. Brilliant writing.

Best regards,
Shailesh

Well I could sense your heartfelt thanks to powerpoint because I belong to a generation which has not seen the acetate era. Infact I have not seen cyclostyle also. However I belong to an era in which spreadsheets were taking over from the manual tables and if you know how to set a template on a powerpoint you were on the CEO’s merit list. I started my career with a “MNC” which was more Indian in its approach to IT spending and training than a throoughbred Indian company. We were in a process to headhunt a VP Sales from a MNC company which had just entered India and was in oil and gas. Before he took the final plunge , the VP wanted to visit the offices and meet the sales team. I was given the responsibilty to show him around. While I was introducing him to sales coordinator , Mr. Sharma , the VP asked , so Mr. Sharma you are working in MS Office and pat came the reply – No sir I work in Regional Sales Office.

Pooja