BoM-Bye

So, finally its time to blog off Bank of Maharashtra. :) Wow!!! I dint know it will last that long, 23 nd a half freaking months. Well, somehow I managed to achieve my target of leaving the bank before 2 years. But wasn’t I always like that, leaving everything till the last minute. :)

I don’t know how good an employee I was for my employers, but it sure was a ride. Learnt a lotta things that I won’t forget ever. Now when its time that I bid adieu to my 1^st organization, the whole journey is before my eyes. MBA in IT, recruited as a specialist finance officer (lol), I still remember saying that I was MBA Finance while I was introducing myself on the 1^st day of my induction. Who knew back then that what you do, starts defining you, not what you have studied. I am certainly headed towards proving it, whether I will prove it right or not, is a totally different question.

It’s hard to sum up the entire two years within this blog without killing the whole essence of it, but isn’t it what we were taught in our business communication classes? Skip the non-sense, stick to the point (ya whatever). Well to be honest it’ll be hard for me to skip the non-sense part here. Because it all started with non-sense, in the middle there was a lot of non-sense and yeah it ended with some non-sense too. Only thing that wasn’t non-sense that I learnt a lot (though not at the pace that I expected) and I will owe this to Bank of Maharashtra for the rest of my life.

Not only intellectually, I’ve grown as an individual too. Once so lazy and careless me, now knows how to shoulder some responsibility. Well!! we can just let the laziness part be there as it is. :P Don’t they say, something’s never change :P.

I am not gonna go on and tell you the story of every single day I spent in my institution cause I want to keep it really short. In fact I won’t share any story, just the gist of my experience of last 2 years. They say you have a role to play and here I played a lot of roles. But wasn’t I multi talented since the start B). This is the very beauty of this institution either you ignore and end up learning nothing or you just have to learn something about everything (well, the scope of this ‘everything’ is very limited here).

I don’t wanna sound like I am criticizing the institution that gave me my 1^st employment opportunity, but shouldn’t the institution think about the personal growth of its employees. But it seems it’s just a one way process for this institution, you just keep giving what you have and if you learn new things in the process, best of luck to you. Only 5 days training in the entire 2 years and that too about something which we already knew. HAHA I wonder, what is the thinking process that goes on behind this? Limit the scope of the employees to such an extent that he/she stops looking beyond the institutional boundaries. Well, I am sorry guys, dint work for me!!! And neither will it work for anyone who has a little ambition in him/her.

I am not entirely disappointed though. Everything that I know about Finance, no matter how little it is I’ve learnt it in this institution. And the reason why I have this new opportunity with me is because I had two years experience in a Bank and I thank Bank of Maharashtra for giving me those two years. You will always be there in my CV and yeah in my heart too.

How can I end this blog without mentioning the most important part, the people. Since the last two years I’ve worked in the same office, no transfers of whatsoever nature. Ha, I end up being the oldest (in terms of experience in that particular branch) officer in the office. After the initial ten months when a couple of other young officers were there, I have spent all my time in Bank of Maharashtra with people, youngest of whom, is 51 years old. On contrary to my initial doubts of fitting in with people of my parent’s age, it turned out it was not so difficult after all. The care and love that I got here, I am sure it will be hard to get the same anywhere else. Countless times, aunties would cook food especially for me and countless times I’ve eaten out of their lunch boxes. Though there were also some moments, where the opinions wouldn’t match but that happens anywhere you go. So in short, I am pretty happy with the people in the company of whom I worked (barring a few A-holes :/). I will miss all of you and the institution that allowed me to bond with you. Goodbye