A TYPICAL WEEK AT MY COMPANY
A NORMAL WEEK
This was a little something I'd sent out to my friends in the Civil engineering batch at IITM. I'd typed this out last Diwali.
This was a little something I'd sent out to my friends in the Civil engineering batch at IITM. I'd typed this out last Diwali.
Hi Junta
Here's wishing all of you a very HAPPY DIWALI in advance. Do mail in and share your experiences during this Diwali.
I guess my Diwali is going to be a big wash-out due to a storm off the coast off Chennai. I'm going home for Diwali and so are most of the people in my team at office. I'm working in IBM at Bangalore. Here's a typical week at IBM.
The week begins with the unavoidable Monday morning nightmare scenario....wherein you wake up and find that you've got potloads of work left to attend to....and a pile of clothes greets you as youwake up....damn forgot to wash'em over the weekend. Plod my way to office, its quite close from where I live....The autos here are unbelievable...they respect the meter...well they actually do (things tend to get a little complicated at night, where the drivers turn the meter the other way and it measures 1.5 times automatically, but I'll leave that bit there) Anybody's better than Chennai autowallas I guess. These autos run on LPG...the auto driver literally sits atop a gas cylinder, tucked under his seat....talk about living dangerously!!
Try to shy away from the Team Lead and head to my CUBICLE (yes you read it right) there are Cubicles in IT offices..miles of them...scary and imposing at first...but you get used to them...The Dilbert comics were right about one thing....the cubicles.
Well Monday's when the meetings happen. The Manager seems to appear every hour or so...and pops into the cubicles to check on statuses. The team lead is the boss otherwise. Learning is quite redefined in my company...its such a private burden that you felt better off at IITM...where there was always someone who would clear things for you. We are learning Java, Web SErvices and Unix right now. The repository of gathered information at such a company doesn't fail to impress. Seriously people, these guys have a good intranet facility and lots of books.
The week I'd joined, the HR Dept. seems to appear with their bag of surprises and with their beaming faces and puzzles and answers...Ladies and gentlemen, I was in a 5 star hotel, while all this was happening. Ahh! the first week was sweet.
Now its back to the regular grind of course...work whizzes past and it needs a very determined effort or some really clever friends around to get past all those codes, bundles, applications and platforms.
There's always a joke or two that falls back into circulation...I believe there is a mini-book in Landmark which compiles the best SMS jokes and forwards of last year...well all these jokes fall in the same genre...they'll probably make it to that book in its next edition. ITs a daily ritual.
We have a daily quiz kinda thing going on over here. SO that peps things up a bit for a while anyway.
There's always a TT table that would do for games to just get away from work....but only in the evenings...
The Office is really a pretty sight. We overlook a Golf Course. The lush greenery of Bangalore, which I was promised, seems to materialize before my very eyes as I step out. Its quite a Business Park.
The day goes by uneventfully. There are the usual patches, security updates and forms for personal evaluation, conduct, insurance and trivia.
I don't really know how to cook. Some people say I am missing something...well I just get on with it...now a Shanti Sagar, now an Idli shop, sometimes a rare visit to Andhra Mess and when that burns my tongue up, I revert to my food coupons and douse the fire witha fruit juice or a fruit bowl at Juice Junction.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday kinda feel like you're going throuogh the motions.
And then Thank God Its Friday. The team wakes up and flutters and spreads its wings...we go out for a treat at the expense of the bakras...who could be birthday boys or girls..or some new joinee who got suckered into throwing a treat. The girls and ladies do put a lot of effort and manage to cook something from home...The guys just cover the main course by buying the sweets and desserts or getting mummiji/bhaabeeji ke haathon se bannaya hua khaana. Some other times its over to the latest buffet that hit the town...and the restaurant finds itself occupied just shy of 30 people who are in the team.
As the week draws to an end, the party animals confirm their plans and the silent types go home and relax with friends and family...
MG Road's too far off and so are the pubs....Legends of Rock is getting too monotonous...the beer tastes bitter nowadays. Forum is such a familiar sight...Garuda mall's too far off....lets go to Coorg next week...heard that was a nice place...these are some of the best laid plans. Lets see if some of them work out.
Now its raining pretty hard as I type my guts out...and I surmise it won't stop for some more time.(the rain and not the typing) I only hope it doesn't spoil my plans for Diwali.
Ciao junta
Pradeep
Here's wishing all of you a very HAPPY DIWALI in advance. Do mail in and share your experiences during this Diwali.
I guess my Diwali is going to be a big wash-out due to a storm off the coast off Chennai. I'm going home for Diwali and so are most of the people in my team at office. I'm working in IBM at Bangalore. Here's a typical week at IBM.
The week begins with the unavoidable Monday morning nightmare scenario....wherein you wake up and find that you've got potloads of work left to attend to....and a pile of clothes greets you as youwake up....damn forgot to wash'em over the weekend. Plod my way to office, its quite close from where I live....The autos here are unbelievable...they respect the meter...well they actually do (things tend to get a little complicated at night, where the drivers turn the meter the other way and it measures 1.5 times automatically, but I'll leave that bit there) Anybody's better than Chennai autowallas I guess. These autos run on LPG...the auto driver literally sits atop a gas cylinder, tucked under his seat....talk about living dangerously!!
Try to shy away from the Team Lead and head to my CUBICLE (yes you read it right) there are Cubicles in IT offices..miles of them...scary and imposing at first...but you get used to them...The Dilbert comics were right about one thing....the cubicles.
Well Monday's when the meetings happen. The Manager seems to appear every hour or so...and pops into the cubicles to check on statuses. The team lead is the boss otherwise. Learning is quite redefined in my company...its such a private burden that you felt better off at IITM...where there was always someone who would clear things for you. We are learning Java, Web SErvices and Unix right now. The repository of gathered information at such a company doesn't fail to impress. Seriously people, these guys have a good intranet facility and lots of books.
The week I'd joined, the HR Dept. seems to appear with their bag of surprises and with their beaming faces and puzzles and answers...Ladies and gentlemen, I was in a 5 star hotel, while all this was happening. Ahh! the first week was sweet.
Now its back to the regular grind of course...work whizzes past and it needs a very determined effort or some really clever friends around to get past all those codes, bundles, applications and platforms.
There's always a joke or two that falls back into circulation...I believe there is a mini-book in Landmark which compiles the best SMS jokes and forwards of last year...well all these jokes fall in the same genre...they'll probably make it to that book in its next edition. ITs a daily ritual.
We have a daily quiz kinda thing going on over here. SO that peps things up a bit for a while anyway.
There's always a TT table that would do for games to just get away from work....but only in the evenings...
The Office is really a pretty sight. We overlook a Golf Course. The lush greenery of Bangalore, which I was promised, seems to materialize before my very eyes as I step out. Its quite a Business Park.
The day goes by uneventfully. There are the usual patches, security updates and forms for personal evaluation, conduct, insurance and trivia.
I don't really know how to cook. Some people say I am missing something...well I just get on with it...now a Shanti Sagar, now an Idli shop, sometimes a rare visit to Andhra Mess and when that burns my tongue up, I revert to my food coupons and douse the fire witha fruit juice or a fruit bowl at Juice Junction.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday kinda feel like you're going throuogh the motions.
And then Thank God Its Friday. The team wakes up and flutters and spreads its wings...we go out for a treat at the expense of the bakras...who could be birthday boys or girls..or some new joinee who got suckered into throwing a treat. The girls and ladies do put a lot of effort and manage to cook something from home...The guys just cover the main course by buying the sweets and desserts or getting mummiji/bhaabeeji ke haathon se bannaya hua khaana. Some other times its over to the latest buffet that hit the town...and the restaurant finds itself occupied just shy of 30 people who are in the team.
As the week draws to an end, the party animals confirm their plans and the silent types go home and relax with friends and family...
MG Road's too far off and so are the pubs....Legends of Rock is getting too monotonous...the beer tastes bitter nowadays. Forum is such a familiar sight...Garuda mall's too far off....lets go to Coorg next week...heard that was a nice place...these are some of the best laid plans. Lets see if some of them work out.
Now its raining pretty hard as I type my guts out...and I surmise it won't stop for some more time.(the rain and not the typing) I only hope it doesn't spoil my plans for Diwali.
Ciao junta
Pradeep
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