My affair with IDs and ID cards - Begins

I came to Chennai crying, I left Chennai crying - what a crying shame !!!

IDs and ID cards - These are,perhaps, the most trivial things in an employee's life. However, every silly thing becomes significant in my life and every serious thing becomes a thing of levity.
September 12th 2007: I began my life as an employee at TCS, Bhubaneswar. This affair dates back to that particular day. I was given a temporary ID card to get into the campus. A month passed by and I was given an employee number and the story begins. Unfortunately, two of us got the same employee number. When it said Welcome Sree Panchajanyam I felt proud. The next time I logged into the portal it welcomed me with a different name and this annoyed me. When I went to the HR and complained about this she reset the back end with my name. When the other guy raised the same concern the next day, the HR replaced my name with the guy's name. It went on and on and finally the other guy won this "battle of resets" and had retained the employee ID. What is to become of me? It took another 15 days for my Emp ID to be activated. This day delay wreaked havoc in my life for close to a month, perhaps worst ever.
So, what happened? On the D-day when we had to key in our choices to select the location of work from the list below
1. Mumbai 2. Kolkota 3. Chennai 4. Delhi 5. Ahmedabad 6. Bangalore,
I realised that this functionality was not enabled for my ID. My girlfriend and I desperately wanted Chennai. She was able to submit her location preferences and I was not able to that day. I was able to do that only after a week. This made all the difference. She was posted to Chennai and I was posted to Kolkota, because by the time I could give my preferences, the limited openings in Chennai were filled in.
Nov 14th,2007: last day of my ILP, and 30 hours of distance started creeping slowly in between us. That was the day I cried my heart out, because of the trouble and pain my Employee ID put me through. I do not feel ashamed to say that I wept like a child, helpless, on that children's day and the celebrations lasted a week starting that day. I lost 4 kilograms in a week( last 4 days at Bhubaneswar and 3 days in Kolkota). At the end of the 3 days I managed to get a transfer to Chennai. I will tell you how, but that is not the topic today. This is one of the reason Chennai is my heaven and bliss.