Exciting times

So today we had a meeting with the head of HR for my business unit. That unit happens to be Communication Service Providers (CSP). They handle business for the various telecommunications companies that work with Infosys. We asked questions like where we'll be after Mysore, what kind of work will we be doing, when we'll be going back to America etc.

They haven't told us for sure yet on where we'll be going in India, but they said it would be either Pune or Chennai. I'm hoping it's Pune rather than Chennai just because it's so close to Mumbai and I've heard better things about it. I'd also be closer to Gujurat so it wouldn't take me much to visit family while I'm there.

One of the most interesting tid-bits of information I received today was concerning our return to the US. Apparently, production training is supposed to last for 4 to 6 weeks. And that's suppposed to start after we leave Mysore, so it will start on or around October 10th for me. Four to six weeks from October 10th would land me somewhere around mid-November. So I could be coming home by mid-November! Although the people did say this was tentative and the length of production training depends on a lot of things, it's an exciting prospect. I know in my last post I said if Infosys offered me a chance to leave early I'd think twice, so it's ironic that this happened today. I don't think I'd take the offer to leave in November though. I can't leave without having visited relatives first of all, and I still have to see things like the Taj Mahal before I leave! I asked if we would be allowed to stay longer in production if we wanted, and they said it wouldn't be a problem (obviously it wouldn't, it's a hell of a lot cheaper for them to keep me here than to send me back and pay me in dollars).

So I have to see when the time gets closer, if I want to go back then or stay a little longer here. Also, we booked our travel plans for Rajasthan this weekend. It should be a blast, we're gonna be traveling a lot and our sleep for the trip will either be on trains or a tent in the desert, no hotels this time. We'll really be roughing it, I wonder how we'll shower haha.

I'll be glad when the end of friday rolls around because it will mark the end of this post project, the beginning of our trip to rajasthan, and the beginning of the next phase of work in India. This project we're doing is really very tedious. Soooo much documentation for such a simple project seems a little absurd, but I suppose it's for the sake of mimicking a real-life project.

Just two more days to go ahhhhhhhhhhhh

P.S. the two people we met with today for our business unit meeting are probably the most straight forward people we've talked to here. If they didn't know something, they said so, they didn't say they would get back to us and brush it under the rug. It was nice, if those are the kinds of people running my business unit then working for Infosys should be an even more rewarding experience.