Hi Kavya,
Based on recent developments, we believe it would be appropriate to make a change to the current reporting structure for the remaining duration of Neil’s internship.
Hi Neil,
Since you have one week left in your program, you may choose one of the following options:
Transferto another team (Social Media or Sales) for the final week, or
Conclude your internship earlyand collect your completion letter from HR.
Please let us know your preference at the earliest so we can facilitate the next steps.
Regards,
Swati Kaul
Head of HR
Jharokha
Neil read the email over and over, as if the words might rearrange themselves into something less alarming.Change to the current reporting structure. Transfer to another team. Conclude your internship early.He could feel the muscles in his body stiffening with every cryptic corporate phrase he tried to decode.
What the actual fuck? What was this even about?
He closed the email and opened Kavya’s chat. He’d refrained from texting her in the last day and a half, but this trumped whatever noble idea he’d had about offering her space.
Neil: Kavya, has something happened? I just saw the email from HR.
He waited for the message to get delivered, but instead, a single grey tick sat stubbornly in the chat box. He swallowed the dread crawling up his throat and switched to regular SMS.Message failed to send.When even his calls refused to go through, he slumped back on the bench overlooking the million-dollar view from his apartment, defeated.
Has she really blocked me? Why?He read the email from HR for the hundredth time.Based on recent developments.They couldn’t possibly be talking about the moment they had shared at Kavya’s house, could they? What if that director dude had ratted him out? Or maybe it was Tanya … shehadbeen awfully quiet on the plane ride back. This is not how he’d expected his day to go after he had returned from his parents’ house, emotionally spent but cradling the hope his mom had left him with.
You’ve already done the hard part by telling her how you feel. Now let her decide what she wants,Mrs Desai had offered.
Thiswas what she wanted? Slowly, it all began coming together in his head.
You made your boss uncomfortable. You confessed feelings she didn’t ask for. You made a scene on a work trip in front of her colleagues, and now HR’s involved. Why would she want to talk to you?He knew he had screwed up royally, but if only he could get a chance to talk to her and explain …
A thought occurred to him. He opened his email and clicked on ‘Compose’ before he could talk himself out of it.
