Summer Placements – Time to get into the ‘K Army’

The much anticipated summer placements for PGP11 is going to start and the battle to get placed in the companies of your choice will start to heat up. But along with the jostle for roles, stipends, locations and brands there will also be a keenly fought side-battle to get into the ‘K Army’!

Now most of you, including PGP10, must be wondering what the K Army is all about. This post will reveal the secret behind the K Army. You are inducted into the K Army if you get shortlisted for a GD but fail to clear it and reach the interview. Each time you do this you accumulate a ‘star’. But once you clear a GD and get into an interview process you are ‘honorably discharged’ from the K Army and join the civilians. You are given a rank according to the number of stars that you collect, starting from the Second Lieutenant right up to the General (10 stars)

1	General	**********
2	Lieutenant General	*********
3	Major General	********
4	Brigadier	*******
5	Colonel	******
6	Lieutenant Colonel	*****
7	Major	****
8	Captain	***
9	Lieutenant	**
10	Second Lieutenant	*

At the end of the summer process, the person with the maximum amount of stars will be crowned the ‘Commander-in-Chief’ of the K Army. Intelligence reports are still not conclusive and we don’t know who in PGP10 achieved such an exalted position. (But rumor has it that one of the writers of this post might have been that ‘special one’!)

From the data collected in the last couple of years we have come to a conclusion. The K Army has been unable to recruit ‘pretty dames’. This is not to say that the K Army has a discriminatory recruitment policy. Actually on the contrary a study revealed that soldiers of the K Army would indeed like to have atleast a few members of the fairer sex as colleagues. But alas, that is unlikely to happen as long as company HRs……..

Another thing that happens is that as the soldiers become more and more experienced stress levels too start to increase and the soldiers yearn to get back into civilian life. This is a common phenomenon reported in armies across the world. The US Army is facing a similar situation in Iraq. But unlike the American soldiers, the K soldiers know that worst comes to worst they will only have to wait till Day 1 of summer placements to be discharged from the trenches.

Here is wishing PGP11 all the best for their summers! And may the best man be the Commander-in-Chief!