Savita – The “Discussion”

About a week later, Pak announced that Savita had completed the Transition plan and I would start on the transition immediately. But, before the dates for the KT (aka Knowledge Transition) were finalized, Pak suggested it would be a good idea to touch base with Savita to understand if there were any pre-requisite subjects that I would need to read up on.

Wow, I was being asked to speak to a girl! I mean – I am the kindda guy looks for an excuse to talk to a babe. And here I was – being requested by my manager to speak to some girl in Bangalore. Who the hell cared if I had to talk about work? If I played my cards right, maybe I could steer the topic away from work and into flirting.

But before that – I needed to check out how this chick looked. So – I rushed to my desktop, logged into our company’s employee search portal, and keyed in Savita’s name and waited!

5 secs … 10 secs … 15 secs … “Why is that damn portal so freaking slow!!!”
Time was doing that slowing down thing again. Another 5 secs later – the screen comes up showing a not so attractive girl.
“Fuck!!! Not again!!! Why is always me???” was what racing through my mind again. But, justice be done – I had gotten used to that feeling by now. And so – With no further ado, and no “evil” intentions in mind, I proceeded to call her.

What followed is 25 mins of pure professional conversation about what the project was all about (Yup … she too echoed whatever crap Pak had given me about this project being the next best thing to happen to me!)

Towards the end of the conversation, out of curiosity, I asked Savita – “Why do you want to leave the project?” And for this, she gave me a well rehearsed answer – “I’ve been on this project for about 2.9 yrs now, and I want to move to my native Hyderabad due to some family reasons. Hence, I wanted to move out.”

Sounded fair and logical enough … So – I left it at that. But, it was only another 2 months later, when she had officially transitioned out of the project, when she revealed the REAL reason as to why she wanted to leave!
(More on that in due course)

Once our discussion was over, we said our good bye’s to each other and cut the call. After this, as was the practice, I sent out an e-mail to Vrunda and Pak about the points we had discussed during the meeting and the action items which lay ahead for me.


Come 6.00 pm – I head home.
(That had become a ritual by now!)