Monday, June 17, 2013

Episode Ad Guy

Ahhh I am so tired today. Just got back from gym and the first thing that pinged in my mind is writing about today's Miraculous episode (Might be not so exciting for common people) Common people?? Yes that means I am calling Genius to myself. Anyway, that I will flaunt in my next story, right now I just want to run my fingers as fast as I can on my keyboard (Excitement  cum spelling errors) So It’s been 5 months I haven’t even seen on my blog (Last blog I wrote when I got my Job, so the reason  of getting offline since long is more clear now) but today I couldn't control to write about it.

I met a guy today. Around 27-30 in age. Cool & casual in behaviour, acts very smart (Later I realized he actually is). Talks intelligently, sharp eyes which hint that something is cooking in his mind and that can pop out  at any moment. No smile but frowning eyebrows and caustic expressions especially when his cell phone rings during the conversation. In short 'A King Attitude'. This guy is an advertising professional in a leading ad agency and I got a chance to meet him today. Blue jeans, navy blue polo T-shirt, wearing a blue thin fashionable wrist band and flip-flops (Decent enough in the industry). I could make it out from his attires that he is an ad guy but never imagined that he is the one  who heads a whole department in the agency. Meanwhile he shook hand with me and introduced himself (Just his name, nothing else). We started a conversation regarding ideas and brands. He asked me first what I do and how (I just hope he did not see the blank thought bubble over my head).  

He asked many many questions to me and I managed somehow to answer few of them at a satisfactory level. In between we came on music and fashion too and I can bet he is damn obsessed about fashion! That was glittering in his eyes and  was visible in his posture.  I was just praying that I don’t speak something silly before him so was thinking carefully before every sentence. One thing I noticed in him was clarity. He was very clear about his own views and policy that if he gets a pat on his back he can reward his juniors/team even with a gold medal. Similarly if he gets something opposite, he will definitely screw the happiness of the defaulter.

Apart from work I noticed a charm in him. May be a L'il bit of filmy, but frankly, that suits him. I meet several people every day. My colleagues, friends. Share my good and bad with them. Gets a holy, divine empathy too. Some of them are really try hard to make my happy! 'Stay positive' is a pet cram which is chanted by all of them whenever they meet me. Very few people accept that am not negative but rational. A wise person said that do not discuss your problems with great people. They might make your problem a case study for them on their problem solving ability!! And of course you'll hear a remix version of that by somebody else.

Ooops where was I? Yess the ad guy. So, I don’t know why but I got very impressed by his body language. It was something very magnetic and you know what, I was feeling very confident and happy after talking to him. Suddenly lot of thoughts started popping out in my mind that dude, this is called attitude. Whatever, whoever, wherever you just go like you want. What will affect you if you simply don’t believe in anything else except you. Yes !You are the world itself. That’s what I felt when I was talking to that guy. People advice about responsibilities, tolerance, calmness, patience and several moral issues but what if I just don’t care. I never realized it. Actually 'Never felt it'. May be I did not get any wave from somebody like him. 

Some people make role models, they follow them and some of them make role models and don’t follow them. Some people you meet and they get print in your mind. This was something like that. I don’t know whether I will meet him again or not but surely this was a great changing attitude episode for me. I cannot forget even a single second with him. Every single word he uttered and every single expression. The whole story may summarize that I am fascinated about his looks and his artificial behavior ( for some mature social animals) and might be a nonsense (for some over mature unsocial animals) but its something very rare and new in my life. Just hope that in the morning I'll be in the same enthusiasm what I am feeling right now!! Cheers!!! Goodnight!

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Hi Five to AdGlobal360 India !


It was 7th May 2012, when I  first entered AGL360 for my summer internship. I indeed had a great time during my two-month internship and again on 7th January 2013, I was back in AGL360, giving the final interview at AGL360 for the first job of my life! This was like getting a ‘Hi Five’ when they said ‘Welcome Back’. Wuhuuuuuuu!!

First day was pretty nervous for me. Though there were some known faces but obviously I was the one who was new at that time. Anyway, the coolest factor of this place is ‘Being Free’!! Everybody is so chill and there is no hard-core corporate environment here, unlike other places where you have to think twice even before you go to loo. AGL360 works on people oriented work culture and when you just shake hands with people it gets viral. Of course, I mean the spirit and joy of being working together, sharing ideas, playing with words, sweet and sour tiff sometimes (thankfully we believe that nobody is perfect).
I remember the cheerful expression of Rakesh Sir when I came back for my interview. He gave me a big smile, shook hands and said ‘Welcome Back Pooja’! Nothing can be friendlier when you get to hear such words from the COO of the company. Whereas, I had a notion that people generally meet the higher authorities of the organization only on annual events or in serious and death-boring meetings, however I saw a reverse system here. Yup, we see them every day or I think I can say ‘They see us everyday’!
I have joined Social Media Optimization team as a SMO Executive. My job responsibility includes building interaction on various social media channels for brands. In this job, once you logged in, you can’t run! You just cannot delete the habit of becoming crazy, crisp and spicy when the world itself following you! You tweet, they tweet; you state, they comment; you pin, they re-pin; you like, they share; you upload, they download; you download, they post! You check-in, they shout! Complete hangover of digitalism!
Well this is all I am experiencing right now; don’t know how far the way is, but definitely hell lot of things are waiting for me and vice versa.
Cheers!!