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PR kiya toh darna kya

By sidin ⋅ September 30, 2008 ⋅ Email This Post ⋅ Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment
footinmouth PR kiya toh darna kya

Foot where?

Transcript of conversation with anonymous public relations professional on newsroom phone a few days ago. Edited for readability.

(Phone rings)

Sidin: Hello… Sidin (It is a miserable habit of mine, that line. So many people respond by saying: “No.”)

Random PR professional: Hello Sidin! This is <mallu name> from <name of PR company>!

S: Hi. Tell me.

RPRP: I have been reading your work for a long time now. And I am impressed.

S: (Sensing a catch somewhere…) Oh thank you very much.

RPRP: Especially the wonderful work you’ve been doing in the area of Law firms and legal services…

S: (What the…) Oh I see. Which stories in particular?

RPRP: Oh the one… err.. you know the story… this particular one… I mean the one on…

S: (Aha! The plot thickens…) Oh you mean the one I wrote last weekend?

RPRP: EXACTLY! That one. It was so, so, so good…

S: On legal services no?

RPRP: Yes yes.

S: Ah but I have NEVER EVER written a single world in my entire career on legal services and law firms…

RPRP: Never?

S: Not once.

RPRP:

S:

RPRP: Maybe I have my information wrong.

S: Maybe you do.

CLICK!



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Comments for “PR kiya toh darna kya”

  • If there is anything more arbit than that phone call, Its your putting it up on this blog!
    Or did I miss the point?
  • LOL, it reminds me of the calls I got from recruiters while I was still in grad school. They were apparently impressed by my fantastic (non-existent)work experience...
  • What did he want of you, anyway? But this is the age of random phone calls, isn't it?
  • Makes you wonder how this conversation would have turned out if you hadn't given out your name when you picked up the phone.
  • LOL
    You should have played along a bit more.... :D
  • LOL!!

    Reminds me of calls I get from Barclays bank every day of the week.

    "Hello Ms Anjol Pildong? ( they actually said that) Since you own a Barclays Card, we are giving you a personal loan worth 1 lakh 50 thousand."

    "But I don't have a Barclays Card."

    So what madam, you can till avail of the loan!

    :D
  • One thing i m still wonderin is the significance of in the conversation.(aredey sidin athu .. :P)

    it adds up to the humor though,,.. ;)

    keep writing brotha...and you rock as usual!!!
  • significance of MALLU NAME in the conversation**

    BTW.. it was not reading anything enclosed within tags :D
  • You sure the person did not say "I have been *following* your work for a while now, especially in law firms and legal services"? Because that would have thrown the whole thing in a more hilarious direction!
  • Hello Sidin (I guess you will not respond 'no' to that address),
    I tend to agree with Priti. You should have played along a bit longer.
    Good one. Keep them coming.
  • purvapar
    tee hee hee

    mustave been an MBA.. :P
  • Wouldn't it be awesome to see the look on that poor guy's face?
  • you cut it short abruptly... could have talked some more to find out what exactly he wanted...
  • nidhi
    poor PR guy - must've been working on some 'database' boss shoved down his diamond print socks!
  • Lakshmi
    Mediocre :( By Sidin standards.
  • Sidin
    In hindsight I should have.

    But then I was in the office you know. And you know how committed and focused us media types are when we are mired in work and... ok I can't even type that with a straight face...
  • Sidin
    What?! You think we MBAs randomly pick up the phone and call people and ask them random questions?

    Only during our internships I assure you.
  • Sidin
    You mean to say that real life incidents in my life are not fun enough as per my standards?

    Oh. Sigh.
  • Sidin,
    That was a quickie. :(
    Guess you wrote the as-in-where-is story and with no contribution from you.
    Reminds me of something like minutes of a meeting.
    Go get a dose of steroids and come back in form!
    -Nikhil
  • purvapar
    OKAY Sid.. I want an honest answer alrite

    WHAT if the PR Person had been a gurl? and sounded veryy *interesting* ahem...

    like that KANDY FOXX female sounded in the Hatke Virgin mobile ad?? :D

    would you have written an article pronto on legal stuff and resumed the chat.. or wud u still help her gently put her foot in her mouth? (my fingers actually did not want to type that last bit)
  • purvapar
    do ppl actually wear diamond print socks??

    ive never even seen them on sale..
  • That's Kandy F-O-triple X!

    Sorry, slight OCD condition.
  • I am reading one another article saying, best peoples is learn from mistakes. Why not you are also, and revisiting this. Maybe re-editings?
  • Lakshmi
    Nopes. I imagine Sidin, being himself, has a super exciting super fun life. Some incidents though aren't fun enough for public consumption.
  • Researches have shown that the IQ of PR professionals is slightly lower than Tupperware. So as a student of Psychology, I whole-heartedly support your rant!
  • Archana
    LOL, reminds me of the time a job consultant called me after "carefully analyzing my resume and skillset" for a fantabulous position in ABC company in their XYZ department for their DEF implementations project.

    And guess what, I was the team leader for the ABC company's XYZ's departments DEF project and was looking at filling up sub-ordinate posts. Some fantabulous move that would have been! :D
  • Archana
    By the way, Sidin writing on Law firms and legal devices.... thats one terrain you have left unexplored for so far. Poor chaps those, have dull lives indeed. You could spread a bit of cheer in there!!!

    Or maybe not, lawsuits and defamation cases are hard for people who are almost always on the brink of selling out their kidneys ;)
  • Omya
    LOL! Reminded of a situation that I faced recently.

    My team was testing a software that would enable resume uploads on our corp website. To test it out, I uploaded mine. Guess what - an HR coordinator called back asking to set up a telephone interview.

    Astounded at her stupidity (since my resume clearly mentioned where I currently worked, it took a couple of minutes to stop laughing out load. And then I too proceeded to "put her foot not so gently in her mouth" (great line btw) :-)
  • Sigh!!!I did precisely this(the phone calls) even after my MBA...And believe u me, as a private banker, the questions are far more random than the ones mentioned.
  • ROFL.. couldn't imagine how that fellow's expression might've been :D
  • engineerindisguise
    ROFLMAO....
    Sidin: hello...Sidin
    RPRP: yes
    Sidin:then who am I??
    RPRP: hello Sidin
  • kalhua
    oh do dip your toe in the field of law~!!
  • yet don't just dip toe but lick in the field of law
  • arian
    have you ever faced the innumerous calls loaded with personal loans of lakhs, of the free gold credit cards, and of the free sim cards? oh plz..why don't you blog once on them?
  • gelatin
    what the fuck is this? fuck urself
  • blade
    sorry for the previous comment
  • Aditya
    Yeah,you had better be sorry! My apologies, Sidin. A jerk friend of mine used my ID to post that comment (Ironically, I'd asked him to read your blog and said that he'd like it.) Keep up the blogging. I'm still waiting for the second edition of your cricketing guide :)
  • Woow... this one is cool. Keep on posting this sort of unique posts. Also visit my blog Logi-call at http://logi-call.blogspot.com/ to give me some inspiration.
  • arun
    wheres the next post???
  • A
    Spam. Please delete.
  • Hope you and the missus had a great Deepavali.

    Please take some time out to post again!
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