The canteens were no less than a maze. Simple yet elegant, they housed a variety of cuisines. The canteen walls with posters from Indian states and cultures were nothing but a reflection of Cummins’ core values, Diversity and Inclusion.
A Summer Internship lets you explore the practical business problems and real life challenges that one learns during their MBA programme, they say. Well, aptly true. MBA classes won’t teach you to manage people (more like workplace politics :P), get work done and most importantly, how to maintain work-life balance. I recalled one of our profs candidly mentioning, “Remember, Summer Internship is like going on a cup of coffee, finals, like getting hitched”, So make the most of these two months to work on yourself and on anticipating what your right fit is. Only some want to land up Squarest peg in the roundest hole after all. :P
Coming back, the most interesting piece in every interaction I found was that every leader was unblemished on their ethical principals and they believed that post a year or two into the Organization, every employee is insentiently Cummin-ized. They hold strong ethical values and believe in “doing the best things in the most correct ways”. The company firmly holds the Fortune 500 Company badge along with being the most ethical of workplaces.
Personally, Day-zero made me ponder my choice of workplace, forcing me to envisage what my “core values” are & the domain and function I would like to embark my career journey on. As the day proceeded, I got reminded of Mrs. Shikha Sharma’s speech on the IIM A Convocation Day. How pertinent is it to have a strong value foundation, because there will always be a day (maybe many such days) when we would be faced with two choices. It is not necessary one takes the path less trodden, but a path more ethical. And it is all about how strong these personal values that we contain are, which would lead us in the right path. After all, our choices make us who we are.
How I wished we had got some goodies :P. Nevertheless, Cummins called it a day with the distribution of T-shirts and offer letters. Surrounded by faces with verve and enigma at the same time, I said to myself, it is just the beginning of a cherished phase here. We come here with a ton of academic and work-ex baggage, only to discover that there always be someone who would be better than us, and to crib about it is indeed a time killer. Give it your best and results shall follow, I patted myself on the back, booked a cab and headed home.
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