Corporate Stories

Some stories never leave the office.
Until now.

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If a student reaches the exam hall 5 minutes late, they're told:

"Rules are rules."

No extensions.
No exceptions.
Fair enough.

But when the examination portal itself keeps crashing...

When sessions expire.

When OTPs arrive but the field to enter them doesn't.

When payment pages fail.

When thousands of applicants spend hours trying to submit forms and still can't...

suddenly the students are expected to suffer the consequences of someone else's failure.

Why?

Why should applicants lose opportunities because the system couldn't do the one job it was built to do?

Rules are rules, right?

Then fairness should be fairness too.

If the system failed, the deadline should move.

Not as a favour.

Not out of sympathy.

But because it's the right thing to do.

Extend the CTET application deadline.

@NTA_Exams @cbseindia29 @EduMinOfIndia @dpradhanbjp @PMOIndia @PIB_India @CJP_4_Bihar

#ExtendCTETDate #CTET #CTET2026

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I filled my mother's CTET form 5 times today.

Not because we entered something wrong.

Because the website simply refused to work.

It kept loading forever.

Then asked for resubmission.

Then the session expired.

Somehow reached OTP verification.

OTP came to the phone.

There was no field to enter it.

Start again.

Somehow reached the final stage.

Payment API not found.

Start again.

People are sitting with their parents till midnight trying not to miss a deadline that could decide their future.

This isn't unexpected traffic.

This is literally the ONLY time this portal is supposed to work.

If you can't handle the only job you're built for, what exactly are you built for?

Paper leaks become headlines.

Broken systems don't.

They just quietly punish ordinary people and call it a "technical issue."

The only thing on this website that works perfectly is the deadline.

Behind every "session expired" is someone's mother, someone's father, someone's dream.

Do better.

@NTA_Exams @cbseindia29 @EduMinOfIndia @dpradhanbjp @PMOIndia @PIB_India @cockroachjp

#CTET #CTET2026 @CJP_4_Bihar

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The night before, the company booked one of the best hotels in the city for a celebration.

The next morning, someone posted on Slack.

"Scenes after last night's party."

The office was almost empty.

I had permission to work from home.

So during lunch, I got on a bus.

I was going to surprise my mom for her birthday.

Halfway through the journey...

My phone rang.

"Join the meeting."

A few seconds later.

"Turn your camera on."

I did.

"Where are you?"

"I'm on a bus."

There was silence.

I still think about that silence.

Because sometimes, a few seconds are enough to completely change the way you look at a workplace.

The Call.

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The world sees the promotion.

Nobody sees the panic attacks,
the missed birthdays,
or the nights you wondered if it was all worth it.

Corporate Stories.

For the stories people don’t post on LinkedIn.

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