A new life with old fashioned floppy drives

A new life began for me in my new department. The task assigned to me was similar to separating the individual strands of thread from a mess of crumpled threads. It was difficult but not impossible, only, it required a lot of patience and I had loads of it. My new bosses had faith in my abilities and I just could not let them down.
I had to make a beginning and for that, I got the Russian contracts segregated based on the originating dates. That was my starting int. Some of the contracts were for a few items, others ran into hundreds and, even thousands. My task was to organize the mess into something that would be understandable.
Therefore, I decided to put the data into a database and, for that, I had to go in for codification. Obviously, I needed a computer and, when I asked my boss, he readily gave me one – only, it was floppy driven. I had to insert a floppy to boot the system, then insert the second floppy for the data entry and updation.

I would arrive at my office early in the morning and remain till late in the evening generating new codes. The team of people at my disposal also had to be kept busy – I would send them to different sections in the stores to gather data from physical check of items. And, would integrate that information into my database.
Suddenly, one morning, my boss called me to his office.
He showed me a report that he used to send every month to the Corporate Office in Bangalore – it was a monthly report on the status of supplies from Russia. He asked me to confirm if the figures indicated were correct or needed to be revised.
I told him frankly that I was not yet ready to confirm the accuracy of the figures.
He wanted me to commit a timeframe by when I would be able to do so and I made the commitment. He agreed and when next he called me, I submitted the figures as per my data. There were some discrepancies but, he accepted my figures and that became one of my important activities every first of the month.
I had gained his confidence and, that mattered. (to be continued …)

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