So... How is this Possible? Did I do Something?

Let me get this straight because it's so unbelievably stupid.

20+ people are going to Seattle. Seattle was my first choice. Boston my second and Chicago my third. Statement from Infosys: "We will try to honor everyone's preferences." I'm going to Seattle!!!

WRONG

Instead I now face living the next 1-2 years of my life in... Plano, Texas. It has to be the most random assignment ever. It's gotta be one of my 3 least favorite places to be deployed to. So how am I in Texas? I don't know. I felt sucker punched as the everyone else's assignments were announced. Most of the west coast residents got Seattle, except at least 3 of us. We got screwed by the company and it makes no sense at all. I detect only one pattern. All 3 of us went to school in Davis and all of us live in the Bay Area. This killed the entire day. Hard to be positive about this one. On to other details...

ES stands for Enterprise solutions and people in the unit will be using either SAP, Oracle, or Microsoft (something) technologies and we will be specializing in one of 6 different categories, none of which I remember (Sorry, I was still making shaking off the Texas thing). Starting September 12, we will end our training in Mysore and resume training in Hyderabad, India So I won't be in Mysore anymore for those interested in visiting. I will be in Hyderabad from now on. I should be there for up to 6 weeks until I get my first project. From then on, I will either stay in Hyderabad or move to Bangalore. 10 Fast track people leave September 15, about 15-20 slow track people will go on October 22.

Let's revisit my predictions. Check on Hyderabad, but big miss on Seattle. One thing about the U.S. location - they're projections, but I'm not sure how accurate the projections are. The ES people who assign us to clients were saying that they had no idea where we'd be in 6 months. He also said there might be a lot of travel around the base location area. To get my location changed, I'm supposed to work it out with my department manager whom I'll meet in a month or two I suppose.

Until then, I'm gonna go back to thinking about how my life's gonna suck for the next 2 years.