10
in the morning , the time of the week when you start questioning the
whole 7 days cycle of 5 working days and just two resting days. When
the very obvious question of “How was the weekend” is followed by
more obvious answer ' Usual...Just relaxed at home” and when the
the 1st and 5th day of the week seems light years away.....Yes it was
the dreaded Monday morning at work.
I
was browsing through my email..........”Job Notification : Success”
, “Timesheet Compliance ”,”Internal IT Survey “......all of
these should directly appear in the trash folder. They seem too
unimportant for the inbox. I was looking for the “Monday Motivator
“ mails , a practice our organization started to pep up employees
like me who strongly believe that Monday 1st half and Friday 2nd half
should be declared as holidays officially. Its better to utilize
one's time in other endeavors than pretending to work for sure. Well
no one appreciated the idea , so yes Monday Motivator it was with
short stories and quotes citing the importance of hard work , success
bla bla bla.I couldn't find it in my inbox this time. They should
have adopted my idea. The least it could ensure was sustainability.
I
filled my bottle , said good morning to a dozen people and sat on my
desk sipping tea and carrying a sincere look on my face. All I was
trying to do is camouflage my bored and sleepy expression.
Update
Folder : Send/ Receive ….......I did it multiple times.........
“
Sweets
at Vijay's desk 6th floor Cubicle#56 <NNTO>”
Yet
another marriage over the weekend .
“Esha
lets us to Vijay's desk”
“
Why????
Is there a new requirement discussion?”
“No
, there is a mail........”
Before
I could finish , she interrupted ,” Has he attached the functional
specification document? These BA s get most of the work done
verbally........We need to do away with the trend “ She kept
speaking.
“There
are some sweets at his desk....I guess he got engaged or something”
Esha
looked at the mail in my inbox .” No I don't think its for his
marriage...He is too …..........”
“Un-Marriageable
?” , I chuckled at my own joke.
“No
…....he isn't the early marriage types....He would be hardly 24”
Well
I was 23. I have plans of getting at 24 and kids at 27...........Ah
but that's my story.
We
went to Vijay's desk. It was probably my first informal interaction
with him. If not first it was the only one I remembered. I took a
dairy milk and congratulated him only to discover that he was not
engaged but had bought a brand new Honda City. A car at 23........I
looked at him again. His desk was neatly arranged with a Manchester
United desk calendar, a photo frame with a group photo with his
friends , a Puma bag and oh yes....an iphone.....I looked at his
name card on his desk “VIJAY SWAMINATHAN”.
Wasn't
he supposed to be the brand ambassador of geekiness and follower of '
Simple living high standards of coding” concept. I looked at him
closely …....He was fairer than me. He had no oil in his
head.........Oh I was being racist.....
I
returned to my desk. I was still thinking about him and how he was
different from the stereotyped opinions I had and why had I never
noticed him.
The
task bar flashed....It was Vijay....
“Hey...wassup”
<Yes
tell me.....<backspaces> > I was being too professional I
thought.
<Nothing....just
bored> But what if he was pinging me for some requirement
discussion. I was in no mood to work.<backspaces>
“Hey”
I replied.
“
Thanks
for coming over.....I never thought someone from the development team
likes to enter the BA ODC on a Monday morning “
“Oh
I am daring enough :D”
“Brave
Girl I must say”
This
was the longest conversation we had in one year of working together.
The
other conversations mostly ended with “ I will check with the team
and get back to you “ or “ Let me explain you the BRD once you
are free”
Was
he equally bored of the Monday morning as I was or was going to him
to congratulate him a gesture of doing the unobvious or even
worse..........did he notice me noticing him................
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