Useless diary of a summer intern

Welcome back!

After 3 weeks of roaming around Mumbai meeting customers,dealers,retailers and the people at the godown and more importantly TOI and BMC life has been good enjoying the food and AC in the company.Breakfast,Lunch, tea at 2:30 and again with snack at 5:30..the first tea is that siesta killer for sure.

2 more weeks have passed.And I am half way through the 6th week of my 8 week internship.Post all the MR, life has been with excel sheets,as big as bed spreads, the endless, borderless world of excel.Had the Hide option not been there, my life would have been even worse. Since this excel life started, a small mistake in one corner on the a day would be discovered days later when I meet my boss and proudly in the MBA tone say,”Sir, here are the values”. and then he shouts,”Even all India market wouldn’t be this big!!!!”…..and it pains,it takes hours,tense moments figuring out how big the goof up is and where exactly it is….

The streets of Mumbai has taught me so many things-some MR Tips/Learnings:

1)Sales execs on the street will signup for surveys, ‘coz they have this apna pan feeling when they see you.(May even call u to join for a jhaas)
2)People may tell you “eh sab room pe baitke khud fill up karne ka, kaun dekhegaa”
3)When you are surveying a person, others look at you with “Mera number kab aayegaa” looks..and alas..when I accosted a guy who gave me this look, he said,”Sorry I’m busy”…damn it!!
4)When you go to interview shopkeepers, the usual response “Seth nahin hai”
5)Shops may not even let you in…you may thing that bugger must be rich to buy your product(or falls under my TG)…but they say Fuck off!!!
6)Men in khaaki are good in case you want to increase your sample size, done that…but they keep asking “humko kya milega??”
Try a “chowkee”/”thaana”.
7)Get used to the most common reply-”Sorry, mere pas time nahin hai”, “sorry”, “no”
8)Using your insti name or city or even MBA would not be of any use, because the person on the other end is neither interested in you or your survey. The onus is on you to sign him up. So me settled for “Good afternoon,aapke paas ek survey ke liye 2 minute hoga kyaa??”..when they ask I say MBA etc etc
9)People tend not to get what you say for the initial 5-10 seconds…so need to use a salutation,customary wishing etc….
10)Never go to ppl who have crossed say 50…they are never gonna signup…
11)Try MRing while on travel…in trains buses, people just can’t escape:p

As Vinay says it,every single jargon that I get to listen here is being stored, memorised and used at the most inappropriate occasions so that I do not forget those for life.

These days, I have started bringing my laptop to office b’coz I’m sure I would not be going on to the field. So life has been more or less like college during his week. With Blog Hopping, Googling,Orkuting and ya….building a distribution plan..bla bla bla(Thats my project).

Summers has given me more Googling time,if I were to believe Business Line and Strategist quiz results.

Thanks to Farhan,my pal for Live Excel Help

PS:Watched a SH1TTY movie ,36 China town….don’t waste your money ….Upen ,go take a hike

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