Ah those halcyon days when we used to be naive!
And the type of concerns we used to have were "How many ppl did this company pick last time they visited the campus?"
or
"Why does this bloody lift not work!?!"
or
"He's been givin me some rather friendly smiles nowadays...I hope its MY hand thats brushing against my thigh now!" ( Err... hee hee)
This is the story of life on the other side! When we no longer gawk at experienced "working" guys, but watch mere mortals gawk at us!
Lay Man pretending to have knowledge (LMPTHK) : "So neenu yen software baritya?" ("What software do you write?"...A humdinger indeed!)
Soft engineer : (Silence) "Andre?"
LMPTHK : Andre, systems side o application side o?? ("I mean, systems side or applications side?! " Now this is a tricky one...You would've seen two answers bein fed to this tough question...One involves high deceit, a swindling of such high order that u leave the questioner dazzled by ur choice of words and "knowledge")
Soft Engineer : (Silence) "Andre?" (Thankfully the sane answer!)
LMPTHK : Andre........ (Lay Man Kernel Panic....say something smart...no say something!...anything will do...Just words are enough...OH MY GOD this is the longest anybody hasn't spoken! :D ) ... Adhe Drivers....
After this I stopped following the conversation...Not before I heard something like "No...no drivers...mainly application side" or something like that from the polite Soft Engineer :)
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Yes I've been involved in these kinda conversations too!
e.g.
LMPTHK: So what kind of software do you write?
Me: All kinds :impish smile
LMPTHK's turn to say, "andre?"
:)
Chappar du scope nodu...
Earth mover ivnu :P
Its more difficult to answer ILM i.e "innocent lay man" who isnt pretending to have knowledge.
Like my granny asked me once, "What exactly do you do in office?" Verrry difficult to explain :-/
AP1: So, what do you do for a living?
Me: I'm a software engineer
AP1: You work at Infosys?
Me: No, I work at HP
AP1: Hindustan Petroleum? Then you must be getting free petrol??
Me: Err... no - HP = Hewlett Packard
AP1: Ah - accha. Which division do you work in? I know many people there!
Me: Its called storage labs
AP1: Oh - the place where they store raw materials??
Me: Close! Our job is to write code for the refrigerator of the cold storage!
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