By Tushar Shekhar
What was the best part of Covid Period? A govt clerk will say total leave during lockdown period whereas a corporate employee will say flexible work shift from home. But post covid many companies started calling their employees and that led to mass resignation, This story is about Mansi Banerjee a girl from shibpur in Kolkata, she always had home sickness, so she move out of her home very rarely, she had made her daily schedule, she woke up and after getting fresh she move to her college and in the evening with her friends she walk up for half an hour on college street and then return to home , complete her works and sleep up, One day after her college got completed she got job in an MNC, initially they offered her work from home and she was very happy just she replaced her college time with her office time and rest schedule was almost the same. One day she got call of her HR team and they said that she have to move to Chennai within a month as the office are getting open and employee would have to serve from office now, the girl got disheartened as she has not even gone to nearby city Bardhhaman and she has to move to Chennai, different types of thoughts started coming in her mind and she started applying for the job in her home
town, even after three weeks she got no calls for any job, now she has got no chance but to move to Chennai, she told her parents that how will she adjust there alone, new people, new culture, new language, her parents told her that see “its your life, if you don’t want to go there is no pressure from our side, but life means change, if some other company would have selected you they also have transferred you somewhere after 3 to 4 years, so if you want to take our advice, you must go, someone will surely become your friend there, and you will start enjoying there too. Taking her parents advice, she went to Chennai from netaji Subhash airport in Kolkata. Her first week was very stressful, as neither she had got good room to live, neither she was getting mother’s food, neither her boss was good. One evening she after leaving her office at 5:45 PM in the evening was walking alone on the street, she saw a bus going from meenambakkam bus stand to marina beach, she thought why to go to room at this time as no one is there so she entered the bus and went to the beach, she sat near the shore and was enjoying the tide, soon she heard horse sound and decided to take horse ride and after that she ate see side fried fish and clicked pic at Mgr. statue, that day she went her home at 10:30 PM and the very first time she felt relaxed, now she decided to cover some part of Chennai everyday and enjoy on her own, therefore she started visiting different places everyday central station, egmore, amusement park, stadium and started uploading her photo on different social networking sites, people of her company who had followed her everywhere thought that she is a very cheerful lady and they made her their group mate and now she started living with 5 other girls and doing parties on weekend, she forgot that she also have a home and parents, till next year when the covid striked again and the company went for wfh for another three months, she went to her hometown shibpur in west Bengal and told her about Chennai stories, her parents were very much impressed with her, and told her risk is a part of life, “Ek jagah jo baitha reh jaega, raste ka wo pathar ban jaega “, so always move forward and never hesitate taking challenges, finally company called her after three months, and this time she was very much excited, she was sitting at airport lounge and her flight was getting announced where she saw a girl with her parents, who was telling her, you should have to become independent now, for how much time we will carry you, seeing this Mansi took a deep breath, thanked her decision, took her bag and went away.
By Tushar Shekhar
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