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Monday, November 12, 2007

Rupom in quotes

Below are some famous quotes about Rupom that are popular in the BPO industry:

  • Jub Rupom ko gussa ata hai to kisee agent to CAP letter issue hotee hai. ( Shamefully copied from Chacha chowdry and sabu)
  • Rupom ka interzaar to 11 BPOs kee hiring team kar rahee hai ( shamelessly copied from Don the movie)
  • Rupom B: Transition ka Raja or operations ka king ( Historically copied from "" King George V, King of England, Empror of India)
  • Rupom the name is Rupom ( secretly copied from 007)
  • Rupom kee zaban to kainchee se bhee tez chaltee hai ( Chacha Chowdhry again)
  • 5 process door bhee jab koi agent late login karta hai to TL kehta hai-- "" Beta login kar le warna Rupom aa jayega"" ( Copied at gunpoint from Gabbar)
Only this much today, we will keep on using these famous ones in our day to day blog about Rupom.....

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Rupom Gives A Party

As we learned the hard way our dear friend Rupom works very hard to make his buck. Now he sees no reason to spend the money on colleagues posing as friends ( Rupom has no friends only colleagues/ex colleagues/fans and admirers but no Friends).

This often leads to very peculiar situation as BPO life is full of parties, we have Pizza Parties thrown on a regular basis, then there are team bonding excercises typically in some local pub where the deal is all you can drink in 550/ per person. Some times I wonder how the pub owners make there money? How do they control if some body is actually drinking or just throwing his drink?

Any way no body expects Rupom to throw a party with Booze at he believes that drinking booze is bad for ones health specially if Rupom is paying for the same. The rule does not applies if some body else e.g. company is paying for the same.

Any way coming back to the party that Rupom was to throw he has bought a nice swanky apartment in an Ivory colored building overlooking the horizon.

Now true to there nature every body in office has been expecting a party. But Rupom was skirting the issue ( oh how much he loves skirts). But bowing to the pressure from the colleagues he agreed to give a party once the club in the apartment complex is ready. This put the matter to end for a few months.

Then the unthinkable happened Rupom bought a brand new Japanese car famous for its fuel economy and riding comfort.
Now to everybody was after his life... Rupom da party do na, rupom da party do na.

One day when some of us were doing our regular Rupom Da party do na,,,rupom da party do na Rupom suddenly became agressive you could see his hairs stand on his arms, his eyes rolled and

he shot back I have bought the house with my hard earned money and I will be paying the EMI for next 20 years, and the car has been bought under EMI also so I see no reason to give a party as none of you has contributed to my sucess and I have bought the house and car from my own money. Hum log to chup chap khisak liye.

Well god is kind and strange are his ways and he rewards those who are patient.

One day we recieved the good news that Rupom da has become proud father of a bonny boy. We were all very exited and there were bets going in office that Rupom will now give a party or not. Some were of the opinion that Rupom will give a party others were that Rupom to party dega nahi.

One day all the goonda log of office ( Any body asking for party from Rupom is branded as a goonda by him) were sitting with Rupom and the usual party question cropped up.

While were asking him wether he will give party or not suddenly Devyani one of our colleagues decided to side with Rupom and shot back to us.....guys what right do you have to ask for party from the poor guy. You did not contributed to his house, or to his car and you never got a party for the same. Now that he has got a son what right do you have to ask for a party if you have not contributed to the same?? There was a big round of laughter and Rupom's face was to be seen. ?

Next evening in first time in the history of BPO Rupom gave a party to his colleagues ( goonda log) at a nice restaurant. Each one of us enjoyed it, but due to some reason I felt that every time we ordered a naan or a kebab or a drink Rupom lost his appetite.

Saturday, November 10, 2007

The big Chief

Disclaimer: Rupom B is a fictious character any resemblence to any person is purely conincidental and is not intended at all. Rupom is an idea each one of us sees daily in our offices and in our neighbourhood he is one of them and each one of us has been Rupom B at some point of our life. So while Rupom does not exists he exists in each one of us, a little more in some of us and less in others.....


This is not about me, it is actually about Rupom B the small town boy who made it big in the big bad world of BPO. For this he had to use every single trick in the book ( and a few outside of any book).

But it was not always the same, in the begining the beginings were humbel, starting in the mofussil Ranchi ( infact his home town gives him one of his many honorary names, lovingly given by his fans across the BPO world..yours truly being just one of the insignificant ones)

Rupom works in international BPO and is a creature of night, believing that hunters come out in night. Only problem being our hunter has never been able to catch even a mice in the night, the nearest he has come to hunting some thing is when a bat got hit his cars windscreen. Though Rupom thinks he has been made to hunt some thing else. Alas reality is different from what he believes.

UNDERSTANDING RUPOM:Is not only difficult it is impossible but in order to save your back you better atleast try to understand what he is planning to do next. (Remember we talked about Rupom using every trick in the book to succeed and a few outside of the same.)

Let me give some real life instances to take home the point. Please remember that this blog will have foul language in excess and those below the age of 18 should not be reading the same.

This is how Rupom likes to think about himself: I am a god fearing, law abiding citizen who works hard to make his rupees and has every right to save his money and not spend it on his so called friends who are not even good colleages.

This is what his colleagues/excolleagues think about him ( he doesn't have any friends only colleagues/ex colleagues/neighbours/admirers and followers)----Rupom is a backstabbing son of a $%^& ( true i swear by the sucess/failure of this blog)

Rupom belief: I can hold a conversation

Junta belief: True if he is talking about himself

Rupom Belief: I no every aspect of BPO

Junta Belief: True if you include back stabbing, boss licking.

Rupom Belief: I have worked very hard to reach where i am
Junta belief: True if you consider the notanki he has played every 9 months to get a raise after threatening to put in papers is included.

Rupom Belief: I have mentored a lot of my colleagues

Junta Belief: Due to some strange reasons all of them wore cup zize 36 D

Rupom Belief: My boss is my role model and a source of inspiration
Junta Belief: How come the last one was declared a Dickhead the moment news of his transfer came?

I hope the above instances will help you in understand the creature Rupom is most of his admirers call him Pom to honor him. There are some misguided creatures who call him Pervert Pom which actually shows what kind of narrow minded creatures they are and they have no understanding of the plane Pom is at. While lesser mortals are worried about salaries, appraisals, client satisfaction Pom believes in what the lord said in the Mahabharata" Karm kar phal kee icha mat kar" So Rupom takes care of his Karm and makes sure that the boss is happy. Some of the actions that Rupom has taken in past to make sure that boss is happy include though are not restricted to the follwoing are:

  • Bringing home cooked fish for him, the poor guy tried to hide it from others but fish smells. And every body has been acussing him of doing fishy things ever since.
  • Posting boss's photograph on orkut and claiming that he is a great boss and a role model.
  • Agreeing to everything the boss says including the time when boss questioned him if Rupom has a dick? ( More on this later posts)
  • Singing in his boss's party because boss wanted to hear a song ( Some people say the boss was actually tired and wanted people to start leaving)

Well some and more of these actions has given our hero a thriving career in the BPO industry and today Rupom is a Jagirdar of Central Office and Numberdar of 25 Branches ( This is role loosely translated in a lay man's language)