I am an Analyst in a shipping consultancy firm. Whenever some old(er) people come to our place and ask me “beta where do you work?”, to evade any further explanations I safely say, Gurgaon. But to my disappointment not many get fulfilled with the answer. They either 'obviously' rhetorically say, “call centre(?)”, or ask me the organisation’s name. I tell them. Next question – “what do you do there?” I have just about never been able to make them understand what I actually do. It’s always incomprehensible to them.
This made me wonder yesterday, What if I worked for Durex. The same set of questions would be thrown onto me as I serve them tea and cookies. I would say, “Durex”… If they hadn't heard of it, "What do they do beta?"... "Make condoms"....A long pause as everyone gapes at me…What if their not-so-innocent granddaughter ask me, “do you make them?”…"Nope, I am in the research and strategy department of their lubricants!"
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