Beautiful People

From: Liz Thomas
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 3:22 PM
To: .Certus.R&D
Subject: Beautiful People...

Hello,

I am writing this mail on the last day in Certus. I am moving on, to another organization, to meet new challenges. On this occasion I would like to thank my colleagues for touching my life in the special way each of you did.  

I came to Certus in August. From that day, I have been seated in the seat where I pen this farewell. From the day Ganga move to another seat, this area where I sit became the boyzone, where the boys worked (Gopi now married, the quietest one, is still included in the bachelor gang). They put up with me, teased and pulled my leg. They asked me questions and demanded answers with the inquisitiveness of the youth, they were.

 I think of the evening before…

Sakthiya, one of the boyz, whom the rest of the team pulls his leg by giving blank calls (He has 4 Credit Cards now, coz he couldn’t resist the lady executives who offered them over the phone) , one of the best developer I have seen over years, is poring over his eclipse. Prasad, the most junior, seated next to me, the canniest of them all, is busy reviewing bugs. Kannan, the mischievous, stoutly declares to Sakthiya his support in searching out and punishing his blank caller is reaching over to push Sakthi’s ext. no stored in his phone and then hanging up. Sankha is trying to smooth Sakthi’s attempt to learn Hindi by correcting his pronunciation while working on his bugs. Gopi, quietly laughing while working on. These are some of my Favorite people…

The next Cabin seats the two people, Ravi and Anzer, whose sense of humor is legendary among the boyz. Their favorite pick is Kannan, who they wring and put to dry on the subject of his numerous girl friends he brags about (the fact that these girl friend count is imaginary do not deter them on bit). Ravi is threatening Sakthiya with mortal injury if he dare predict the run outs on Indian cricket team just before the match, with that jabs the ext. button of Sakthiya and hangs up. Anzer follows with another ring. Jags turns and scolds all in general, for disturbing Sakthiya, and is hooted down for her pains.

In the next cabin, a good repartee comes from Sankalp for all in general, leaves us in splits. Robin comes for a breather between Dell performance work, and smiles at sakthiya’s meerkat-like pose to catch the blank caller at work (Disappointed, Sakthiya settles down yet again to work). Aditya, who joined with me on the same day, smiles at the confusion.

Across the cabin the QA people, Uma, (an exceptional lady with a great sense of humour), Sithik and Partha syncing up with each other with yahoo chat for concurrency test. Murala, the multilingual is on leave and Mohandas is busy verifying, Sridhar quiet and Ravi in his creative prose. Rajesh resting…

Veena in Egypt, Ram, Raja and Kala in meeting.

Gopal has come from the better half of the office space to talk to Robin and smiles in general. In his part, from the proverbial Kailash where the Shiva / Ganga reside, to the HR cabin where Chezhian is busy calling up candidates and Baskar administering the daily chores, serenity reigns.

A Day in Chennai Certus… I will miss them all.

I came to know their good nature, their sense of humor and their character during the team out which I had the good fortune to anchor.

Veena, Robin, Sankalp, Anzer, Ravi, Jaga I am honored to know you. Veena, Jaga, I will miss you most of all.

Raja, Ram it is great working for you. I enjoyed working for Zurich fix pack and 2.7 product. Ambili, thank you for the first interview call. Ganga, thank you for the guidance and the good time. Gopal, George, Bala, Shiva, Ganga, Ambili for the first days fun.   

Ramesh, Sridhar, it was great working with you, Sudharshan glad to make your acquaintance.

As each open yet another forward I have sent and declare they are finally be rid of the junk they were secretly enjoying, I am glad they know me and I know them, for they were my inner circle.

As I clean up my desk and wait for my relieving procedures to end, Sated from the nice lunch the team gave. I reflect on the good times I have shared with these exceptional people.

Good Luck and Good bye…