The Learning Curve

Once Bakshi wanted me to go back to offshore delivery centre and continue working for the same account from there. (For administrative reasons, I can't tell you to which city in India, precisely.) I made it clear that I don't mind going back to India but I would appreciate if I was sent to my base branch, Bangalore and that meant I would have to be released from the project/account. He was so furious and jumped up and down as if I had squeezed his balls.

A few weeks down the line, I was in a meeting with Tony, an architect who was working for the client through another non-WRSC vendor. Bakshi showed up at the door without even knocking. 'Oye Saale... idhar aa. (Come here) ' He called me.
'I will finish this meeting and catch you soon.' I replied
'Forget about him.' He pointed at Tony. 'Come with me, now.'
I apologized with Tony, took permission and followed Bakshi.

'You are the biggest mistake in WRSC.' Bakshi started as we walked to the next meeting room. 'You will never grow.'

I was confused. What does WRSC has to do with my growth? Nobody usually grows after the age of 21. It's a fact. I was 5 feet 11 and Bakshi was way shorter than me. He stood only a couple of inches shorter below my breast.

'What do you mean?' I opened the door of the meeting room for him.
'You can never be a designer. You will always be a programmer. You will end up coding all your life, you can never design a project yourself.'  My manager was motivating and appreciating my work as he made his ass comfortable in one of the chairs.
'Why do you think so?' I closed the door behind me.
'You see, I have brought this new guy, Kunal, onsite.'
'Yes I know. What's up with him?'
'I asked him to review your code. He says you've been doing procedural programming using an Object oriented language, Java.'
'I see. He reviewed my code.' I repeated

Kunal is smart, I thought. He knew what his manager wants to hear. He has started rubbing salt into my wounds the moment he stepped out of the London Heathrow airport. But, on a sad not, he paid the price for it himself. I didn't have to play any politricks.

'Alex, you're the biggest disaster to WRSC. I have no clue about who would’ve interviewed you. The person who interviewed you into WRSC should also be an idiot just like you.' He waited me to respond but I didn't. 'Idiots like you cannot stay onsite at the client location.'
'If you think I am a disaster, an idiot, release me from this account and send me to Bangalore. I will find another account.' I stood up and walked out.

Two days later Bakshi again found me at the smoking area with Ritesh. 'Kya chal raha hai?' He looked very angry.
'Nothing, just smoking.' Ritesh replied.
'Alex!! I am telling you... learn from Kunal. He is a pretty good chap in Java. Lick his balls if you want to. It would be a good learning curve.'

It was obvious from the way Bakshi dealt with issues that he has learned a great deal licking someone else's balls. No way without that a guy like him could've made until here on the corporate ladder. I doubted if he used to give blowjobs as well.

Somebody ushered him away from the smoking area. That day if Bakshi had uttered one more word, I would've crushed his balls under my feet and no guy without a backbone who followed me to London would've ever got a chance to lick them.