One day in life....
7 AM: Trrrrrring. Actually...beep beep beep (era of cellphones, no more clock alarms). Alarm goes off..I wake up eyes half open ,and in a reflex action ( hand must be doing it automatically now i guess) shut the alarm and goto sleep (It's still 7 AM...thats too early..)
8 AM: The sun's bright rays are on my face directly. They seem to be saying "Who do you think you are fighting against eh?". Finally, the brightness is unbearable,I open my eyes, fully for the first time in the morning and look at the time "oh...its 8...damn..why the hell do I have to get up"
8:30 AM: I force myself out of bed into the shower. Get hurridedly dressed, grab some crumbs of bread and leave. Gotta get to work by 9 :30. Along the way, glare (abuse them in the mind..silence is golden you see) at a few errant passers-by, as if they were responsible for me getting late.
9:35 AM: Approximately 10 traffic jams, 5 near-accidents , and an almost uncountable number of times of honking, I saunter into office, wondering what the day would be like.
9:45 AM: Check mail (official). We usually get spam mail in our official mail ids. If they arent spam, then they are usually some ridiculously boring ,recycled since the 1990s forwards (some people are in a time warp ). After reading the last of those forwards... it feels like I am done with all the official mail.
10:30 AM: Yawn...I feel so sleepy. There are a certain category of spam mails, that we have to reply to and they are from our bosses. 90% of the time, they are only information for you to learn from. A few times,however entails us to use our 'brains' and reply. This is part of the excellent 'interactive atmosphere between supervisors and other employees".
10:32 AM: Look for some pretty women to talk to on the official online chat messenger. Simultaneously, check personal mail. Now personal mail is again a list of forwards from some other time challenged people, and this time it is on your e-group. Number of e-groups you are a member of is directly proportional to the number of degrees you have. Now for some numbers
10: Number of forwards you recieve in a day(The number could increase if the total number of people who passed out with you in all your colleges subscribe to the egroup)
0: Number of mails you want to recieve from someone so badly, but you havent received.
5: The number of times I take 'official' coffee breaks.
15: No of chat windows open between morning and noon
13: No of people who havent bothered to reply to me.
1: Some guy I chat with everyday..about office jazz. Only he has bothered to reply.
Now back to the timeline for the day.
1 :00: The best part of the day, where we have lunch. Feast on everybody's lunch and at the end I begin to wonder if my stomach is really a bottomless pit?
1:30: Lunch festivities end..beginning of the apocalyptic afternoon siesta. ZZZZZZZZZZZ!!
2:30 Time for a coffee break. Been working to hard..so the weariness is showing. A coffee break would seem like a godsend at this time. Talk to a few team mates over coffee about how sucky things are...every one i meet is somehow frustrated with everything, but they end up working a lot. During this time, my boss also comes up and gets an 'update' of things. This update is just a way of him feeling sure that i am definitely gonna screw up. Hes just sorting out how many people will actually screw up, which will eventually screw him.
5:00 After pretending to do some work for the last two hours, waiting for the clock to strike five so that I can take my tie off. Its like a ritual, happens everyday.. same time ...not necessarily the same place..sometimes in the loo as well.
6:00 Remove all pretensions of work from my head, and now multiple chat windows are open and this time on other 'banned' chat messengers. Gotta catch up with friends from other places you see, its very important.
7:00 Think it's time to leave...after a gruelling day's work!! (DAMN..why the hell are we so loaded with work). One friend says Pub..the other says Coffee pub..while the two argue, I watch...and finally the 'hanging' out plan is cancelled either due to inclement weather or people just not feeling upto it. Huge relief, since no money spent...running short of money as well.
8:00 Saunter home...take off clothes and pick up the TV remote. I watch the same mundane channels...like news..music etc etc and complain about how monotonous life is. Some of the news channels are entertaining coz they show the funny side of George W Bush Jr...which is when he is himself..and that is all the time.
11:00 A hearty dinner..and a few smses and calls later....i crash...into a world of my own...wondering what the day like will be tomorrow?
8 AM: The sun's bright rays are on my face directly. They seem to be saying "Who do you think you are fighting against eh?". Finally, the brightness is unbearable,I open my eyes, fully for the first time in the morning and look at the time "oh...its 8...damn..why the hell do I have to get up"
8:30 AM: I force myself out of bed into the shower. Get hurridedly dressed, grab some crumbs of bread and leave. Gotta get to work by 9 :30. Along the way, glare (abuse them in the mind..silence is golden you see) at a few errant passers-by, as if they were responsible for me getting late.
9:35 AM: Approximately 10 traffic jams, 5 near-accidents , and an almost uncountable number of times of honking, I saunter into office, wondering what the day would be like.
9:45 AM: Check mail (official). We usually get spam mail in our official mail ids. If they arent spam, then they are usually some ridiculously boring ,recycled since the 1990s forwards (some people are in a time warp ). After reading the last of those forwards... it feels like I am done with all the official mail.
10:30 AM: Yawn...I feel so sleepy. There are a certain category of spam mails, that we have to reply to and they are from our bosses. 90% of the time, they are only information for you to learn from. A few times,however entails us to use our 'brains' and reply. This is part of the excellent 'interactive atmosphere between supervisors and other employees".
10:32 AM: Look for some pretty women to talk to on the official online chat messenger. Simultaneously, check personal mail. Now personal mail is again a list of forwards from some other time challenged people, and this time it is on your e-group. Number of e-groups you are a member of is directly proportional to the number of degrees you have. Now for some numbers
10: Number of forwards you recieve in a day(The number could increase if the total number of people who passed out with you in all your colleges subscribe to the egroup)
0: Number of mails you want to recieve from someone so badly, but you havent received.
5: The number of times I take 'official' coffee breaks.
15: No of chat windows open between morning and noon
13: No of people who havent bothered to reply to me.
1: Some guy I chat with everyday..about office jazz. Only he has bothered to reply.
Now back to the timeline for the day.
1 :00: The best part of the day, where we have lunch. Feast on everybody's lunch and at the end I begin to wonder if my stomach is really a bottomless pit?
1:30: Lunch festivities end..beginning of the apocalyptic afternoon siesta. ZZZZZZZZZZZ!!
2:30 Time for a coffee break. Been working to hard..so the weariness is showing. A coffee break would seem like a godsend at this time. Talk to a few team mates over coffee about how sucky things are...every one i meet is somehow frustrated with everything, but they end up working a lot. During this time, my boss also comes up and gets an 'update' of things. This update is just a way of him feeling sure that i am definitely gonna screw up. Hes just sorting out how many people will actually screw up, which will eventually screw him.
5:00 After pretending to do some work for the last two hours, waiting for the clock to strike five so that I can take my tie off. Its like a ritual, happens everyday.. same time ...not necessarily the same place..sometimes in the loo as well.
6:00 Remove all pretensions of work from my head, and now multiple chat windows are open and this time on other 'banned' chat messengers. Gotta catch up with friends from other places you see, its very important.
7:00 Think it's time to leave...after a gruelling day's work!! (DAMN..why the hell are we so loaded with work). One friend says Pub..the other says Coffee pub..while the two argue, I watch...and finally the 'hanging' out plan is cancelled either due to inclement weather or people just not feeling upto it. Huge relief, since no money spent...running short of money as well.
8:00 Saunter home...take off clothes and pick up the TV remote. I watch the same mundane channels...like news..music etc etc and complain about how monotonous life is. Some of the news channels are entertaining coz they show the funny side of George W Bush Jr...which is when he is himself..and that is all the time.
11:00 A hearty dinner..and a few smses and calls later....i crash...into a world of my own...wondering what the day like will be tomorrow?
posted by Rider on the Storm at
7:02 PM
3 Comments:
Its same to the extent of Deja-vu. Wondered if someone is running the matrix code again !!!
Hilarious!
Perfect and thankyou for showing me me.
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