The Football Team at the Corporate Presentation
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My company (Mistral) had a half yearly presentation today. All the employees, from all over India were asked to attend.
And my team decided to go in for an item number on this occasion (err...hold on). Just today morning, we received some sporty T-Shirts and caps from our client company in the US. These bear the name of the client, and thus also that of our team, which is dedicated to this client. We decided on the spot that we would all wear these to the presentation.
Now starts the presentation. All around, there were people in spiffy coats and ties, or atleast decent formals. A few 'propah' T-Shirts too could be seen around.
Now troops in our team in our fun T-Shirts and caps, and the company I-Card hanging around our necks. Heck, we made one hell of a splash! Though most of the junta were trying to be nice and polite to us, we did get to enjoy a few barbs right from the time we started our journey from office to the time we reached the audi (no claims about the exactness of the words):
"2 pizzas please. Hope we will get them in 30 minutes?"
:
:
"15 minutes over"
"Oh...football teamaa?"
"No, Kabbaddi team” (thats me correcting someone)
"Urr...umm...sorry...baseball teamu"
"Hmm....you should have worn shorts too. Ofcourse, the issue with shorts is that you shouldn't get the logo at the wrong place"
And you should have seen the team at tea-time. Every one stuck together. Knowing well that in unity lies strength (strength to withstand the amused stares coming from all around) heh..heh
End comment from one of my team-mates when we were back at office after the presentation (in which he corrected one of the barbs so that it is 'technically more correct'):
"Well, with the caps and company ID hanging around our necks, we look more like football referees than players".
Heck, this was fun. Some of my team-mates were visibly uncomfy. But it was fun. The T-Shirts are cool, well designed, and 'jara hatke'. We also got some nice coffee mugs (though I fear these may be misused for beer by some of my team-mates). Would like to thank our client.
My company (Mistral) had a half yearly presentation today. All the employees, from all over India were asked to attend.
And my team decided to go in for an item number on this occasion (err...hold on). Just today morning, we received some sporty T-Shirts and caps from our client company in the US. These bear the name of the client, and thus also that of our team, which is dedicated to this client. We decided on the spot that we would all wear these to the presentation.
Now starts the presentation. All around, there were people in spiffy coats and ties, or atleast decent formals. A few 'propah' T-Shirts too could be seen around.
Now troops in our team in our fun T-Shirts and caps, and the company I-Card hanging around our necks. Heck, we made one hell of a splash! Though most of the junta were trying to be nice and polite to us, we did get to enjoy a few barbs right from the time we started our journey from office to the time we reached the audi (no claims about the exactness of the words):
"2 pizzas please. Hope we will get them in 30 minutes?"
:
:
"15 minutes over"
"Oh...football teamaa?"
"No, Kabbaddi team” (thats me correcting someone)
"Urr...umm...sorry...baseball teamu"
"Hmm....you should have worn shorts too. Ofcourse, the issue with shorts is that you shouldn't get the logo at the wrong place"
And you should have seen the team at tea-time. Every one stuck together. Knowing well that in unity lies strength (strength to withstand the amused stares coming from all around) heh..heh
End comment from one of my team-mates when we were back at office after the presentation (in which he corrected one of the barbs so that it is 'technically more correct'):
"Well, with the caps and company ID hanging around our necks, we look more like football referees than players".
Heck, this was fun. Some of my team-mates were visibly uncomfy. But it was fun. The T-Shirts are cool, well designed, and 'jara hatke'. We also got some nice coffee mugs (though I fear these may be misused for beer by some of my team-mates). Would like to thank our client.