Caterpillar

Almost two years ago, I was in Hyderabad attending a training program for fresh recruits by Satyam Computers, which I had joined newly.

Nearly a fortnight before our course was to end, 12 of us were called to Chennai for an urgent requirement at Ford. We came here with dreams of working at FITSI (Ford India Technological - blah, blah)...

It was an anticlimax in Chennai, as the project never kicked off, and we were left sitting idly in the cafeteria and library, cursing our bad luck.

All of a sudden a couple of us were drafted into a project for the Automotive giant Caterpillar.

Then started my days of toiling at the office, working late hours, sometimes even working on sundays and at times going crazy :-)

It has been almost 21 months since I started working for Caterpillar. Amongst Satyam's clients it has got the distinction(dubious!) of setting tough deadlines and rigorous quality procedures.

Okay, before you all start thinking am grumbling here, I actually want to tell a good news. We had a client visit today and people from Caterpillar's technical team came to my office. And, I got a Client Appreciation Certificate from them :-)

Am greatly surprised. Never had an inkling of it coming. Nevertheless, am overjoyed :-)))