Fresher Dulhan

From a long time, I’ve been thinking on this analogy which according to me, exists between a newly married bride and a fresher engineer joining an IT company.

I found lot of similarities in the course of the events which happen to a newly married bride, when she reaches her in-laws’ house and in a fresher engineer who joins an IT company. Let me put these similarities as stages of their lives:

Stage 1: Newly married bride comes to her in-laws’ house; first she is introduced to the senior members of the family and everyone give their blessings to her. Later she is taught all the traditions and customs followed by their family, since ages.

In the same manner, when a fresher joins an IT company; the first few days are kept for Induction. In this phase, all the seniors of the organization come and have an interaction with the new employees, joining the organization and also give them presentations about the organization and its processes. Like in the case of bride, she was made accustomed to the traditions of the family; here the freshers are made aware of PPP (principles, processes & policies) of the organization.

Stage 2: Once all the necessary customs are over or when the induction phase ends; the newly married couple is sent for a honeymoon trip. Similarly, freshers also start with their technical training, once their induction finishes off. Generally this training continues for more than a month. In this period, freshers make friends with other people (mostly freshers), who have joined the organization with them and also explore different places in that city like theatres, restaurants, tourist places, etc. Even some people call this training period as a Honeymoon period for freshers joining any company.

Stage 3: The Honeymoon period ends and now it’s time to work. Everyone whether a bride or a fresher looks forward to work sincerely and get recognition in her in-laws’ family or the organization respectively. A great man had said that getting work is also not easy in this world, same thing happens here too. Freshers come out of training with an urge to work hard and to prove their mettle but then in most of the cases they are not allotted on any project immediately, meaning that they are on bench. Similarly, whenever a new bride enters the kitchen to do something, the family members say that you don’t need to work right now. They even say that till now the color of Mehndi (Henna) also haven’t faded from your palms, so how can we ask you to work. So finally both of them don’t have any work for few days, weeks or may be months.

Stage 4: Finally after some time, everyone gets work; bride gets involved in her daily work at home and fresher in the project to which he or she is assigned to. But please don’t think that is the end of the story, infact this is the beginning of the real story. Till now everything was moving smoothly & happily but now comes the twist in the tale. Now the elders or the supervisors forget that these people are new and may make mistakes. They start assuming that both the bride and the fresher will be perfect in all the work they do. Even sometimes they start blaming them for the smallest of the mistakes these people commit. They even ask them that what you guys have learnt so far, most general question to the bride: What have your parents taught you? And to the fresher: What have you learnt at the engineering college and in the technical training?

In this manner, the story continues further but this post ends here…