You know you are in Wipro when… (though some only refers to Electronic City office).
– When you get the salary
– When your marrying another wiproite
– When you see people running at 6:10 to catch the bus
– When you live in BTM
– When you keep pressing Ctrl + K when you are checking mails in Yahoo!
– When internet access is slow on cricketing days…
– When you see the device which is intended to spray water on grass does it on the car.. anyhow free car water service for the owner
– When your bathroom bulb blows up in the night, in dark while searching for the candle, you slip on a soap and collide with a table only to bring down your laptop to the floor. Suddenly you realize that everything involved in the incident is a product of your company.
– When you are posting in channelw
– When you get a news-mailer every morning which contains anything but the news
– When you have only one bus option at a particular time for morning!
– On Friday when you calculate the no. of hours required to reach the avg 9.5 hours…
– When you see Blue, Red, Green belts
– When you hear someone cursing the policies every two hours
– When yahoo, gmail and rediffmail are blocked (orkut.com too)
– When Internet browsing throws you out after 20 mins in Wipro ISD
– When you are in a pool but people say you are on the bench
– When you don’t get breakfast after 8.30 even though the bus itself reaches after that
– When you get 100000 group announcements a day which no one reads and everyone filters
– When you receive empty group announcements
– When you get mailers about seminars and events you are not eligible to attend anyway (B1 and above only, etc)
– When you get wings within mailers
– When 10.30 is tea time
– When you take at least 3 chances to finalize a TEA CUP
– When the street dog shares the same TEA CUP that you use
– When in the pantry along with the stirrers there are tongs to squeeze out that last drop of tea out of the teabags (value for money, you see)
– You know you’re in Wipro when…
…you’re not sure if there is an official tea time.
o Guess u r n Madivala office ????
§ Probably when you guess which Wipro location based on tea timings
– When you get dress code adherence mails every week
– And when Security sends out a mail to your supervisor informing that you are wearing sandals to work
– When I take out my wallet and find 2 blue debit cards. one for my savings(uH ! gud joke) and one for my ERA which is always 0 balance
– When you are mobbed by credit card people outside Gate 5
– When everyone you know forwards resumes of themselves, their brother, sister, son, daughter, in-laws, etc. etc. to you…
– When you start noticing Wipro stock quote often on a daily basis (not that the company gives you any)…
– When people Swipe-In at EC & swipe out at M.G. Rd
– When TEDWEB goes down every 10 minutes !!
– When Tedweb goes down the very moment your supervisor has asked u to update something important immediately
– When on any day, at least one of the applications in TEDWEB is down for maintenance!
– When HR is called TED.
– When you find no place in Dormitory soon after lunch
– When you come to office to forward emails and sip coffee
– When you have only 5 leaves in first year.
– When desktops movements from 1 location to another keeps happening!
– When everyone in BTM seems to be working in Wipro
– When the autorickshaw guys ask for 30-40 bucks from Hosur road to Gate5
– When you request for monitor separately after requesting for desktop!!!
– When you see the Wipro Technologies Board and the colored pillars
– When you try double clicking on email ID (anyone@otherthanwipro.com) in outlook only to see a small window popping up with no Contact/Manager/Location details..
– When guy/gal sitting beside YOUR desk asks if YOU had been assigned any project
– When you find the pantry empty after 6pm
– When all that you hear whole day(other than songs…thanks god that has not been blocked yet!) is cribbing
– When you share an office with Ducks
– When several pathways lead to a tower and you start applying optimization techniques to choose the shorter path and finally end up forgetting where you have to go..
o And then you realize it is time for your next cup of tea and you go back to your tower…
– When you start feeling better after being disturbed seeing all craps that other companies offer
– When you don’t get any news which you can forward to friends and make them jealous
– When Ipods given by CTS are sold at Wipro (check Electronics at Channel W classifieds)
– When mail from ‘Information Services info’ becomes SPAM
– When you get fire drill mails beforehand
– When you stand in a big Queue to get chicken Biriyani on Fridays in Golconda
– When after dry cleaning your black suit fades out but the Dhobi refuses to pay any damages claiming ‘Anything Gray is Black’
– When you post in Channel-W to compensate for the loss of Orkut
– When fights start in Channelw over the smallest of issues and people crib about everything from food to transportation in Channelw forums
– When you receive Birthday mails from totally unknown people on your Birthday
– When the security people start frisking you when the bus is about to leave and you are in a hurry to catch it…
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