Hyderabad. Chandrasekhar Murthy, a programmer with Infosys Technologies Limited, felt relieved and liberated after he cooked Maggi for himself in the middle of the night yesterday. Chandru, as he is affectionately called by his friends, had returned home after finishing a 14-hours shift in the office and was too exhausted to cook anything else. As he was about to eat the noodles, the aroma in the rising vapors made him recall the hostel days of his engineering college, and he felt a free soul again.
“I took out Maggi in a plate and came out in the balcony with a chair. As I sat down with the plate in my lap, somehow I suddenly felt as if I was sitting outside the café of my engineering college. Maggi at midnight with friends used to be a routine and life was so different. For the next few moments I felt young and carefree again. It was veritably a freedom at midnight for me.” Chandru recounted his exhilarating experience of last midnight.

Food for thought?
But that momentary taste of freedom compelled Chandru to believe that he had been a slave on all the other occasions all through the days of his employment. He felt a strong repulsion and abomination when he was getting ready for the office today morning. The 25-year-old felt like a two-minute rebel.
“I almost hated the idea of going to office. I can’t log into my facebook or orkut accounts there and I can’t chat with my friends. They even banned cellphones with rich features inside the office premises. So forget internet, I can’t even see those beautiful pictures and videos of my golden days to relive those golden moments. I don’t know if a Maggi tonight will help again.” Chandru wondered.
After a lot of intense introspection, Chandru decided to fuck it all and resign from the job. He even typed a resignation letter and proceeded to attend his last day in the office. But the moment he got in his Swift Dezire (car), which he had bought just last month on loan, he was swiftly reminded of the next pending EMI payment. His desire to say bye-bye to his salary got a huge setback.
“I crumpled my resignation letter and used it to remove some dirt off the windscreen. I could see the way ahead very clearly. My boss was waiting for me to give me an awful feedback, even though I had met all the deadlines and delivered on what was asked in the projects.” Chandru said rather disappointedly.
Chandru has been thinking of ways to recreate the Maggi magic since today morning and wondered if he could go on a break with some of his fiends. He was disappointed as his office friends rejected the idea as they feared that numbers of leaves will adversely affect their performance appraisals.
“I can very well understand now why Nandan Nilekani left Infosys to join a government job.” Chandru reportedly said to himself.
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Reported by Pagal Patrakar on Oct 21st, 2009 and filed under Companies. You can follow any responses to this report through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this report





Maggi helps a lot in such cases! Long live Maggi!
haha.. add my name in the list.
and even more over this post is bieng circulated within infy.
Even i got this as fwd:)
Its was looking so yummy!!!!!!!!!!!!!
now i am an engineering student..we are also cooking maggi in our hostel at mid night secretly…we are njoying it alot……………
” I can very well understand now why Nandan Nilekani left Infosys to join a government job ” This is the best.
I am a former Infoscion. And the description is so true.
I hope the new joinees realise that its not a fairy land out there.
I was stupid enough to be enticed by the “good name”.
Lemme tell u Infosys’ fake image of being a “meritocracy” is a big joke.
And Im not some disgruntled under-performer.
I got a ‘Spot Award’ during my stay there.
The managers are sloppy.
NRN is a great brand builder but can’t control anything that the lower level managers do.
No wonder people get disillusioned and the attrition rate is so high.
BTW Spot awards are given to ass kissers in my location in Infy… Were you one of them ?
The maggie looks nostalgic. I guess i should also leave my work n go and cook maggie to treat myself. lol:)
He could have tried “Top Ramen” the next day to have the same magic.
Also I left Microsoft to start my own company and I don’t have to eat either maggi or top ramen. but, my staff eats it on regular basis. and this is how the world goes. either fuck others or get fucked !!!
and who told him to buy swift desire? That idiot should have bought Nano.
Kya proudy aadmi re tu?
@ ankit: yeah i can hear u saying so long suckers,why don u buy a nano for urself
Well, when I read it now I am certainly reminded of my tenure in Infy 4 years back… definitely the saddest and ‘abominable’ part of my life, office filled with sadist and hypocrites! (and am trying not to be judgemental
Leaving Infy was the first right step towards fixing my life. The protagonist in the news could just have tried a little more hard.
This is exactly how many people from infosys feel….