lobby talk

I just hated the sight of him and I feared even his shadow that came on to my cubicle wen he,poor fellow,walked up to the loo.I hated that vishu too for giving me a cubicle so close to the loo that made him inadvertently visit me atleast 6 times a day ( :)) and after completing his duties,he used to very religiously,infact quite unabashedly walk up to my cubicle, and (very much like the neighbourhood child,studious and oversmart ,pinku ya babloo,would climb up da wall common to ur houses and pop his head on the surface and ask,with that devilish grin,"abhi tak tera homework khatam nahi hua..kya hoga tera ab....tch tch"),would first straigthen his posture,bring his lips to a firmer line and say sumthing thats so very predicatble of him-"What are the updates".He knew for sure ,work when left to me would never have any updates,cos I simply didn't follow what he said.He said "just think and find a solution to this port time out thing" and I ran to Rishabh"Yaar yeh port kya hota hai"-He asked me once to create a server program that would accept sum input of xml and give out----blah blah!Thankfully,there was a communicator with milap "available" on it,and Rishabh to debug it.The demo was a success.He loved it.I loved it too cos it worked and I was happy cos he was happy and for one single day I was not the 'problem child' .I even came close to being the mistaken ,tortured divine developer..But sadly,it was just "chaar din ki chaandni ,Fir wahi andheri Raat".Devils and demons rule everywhere,esp in corporate offices.Next day,evrything was back to normal.The games,the hatred,the grumblings,the name calling(details cuming up!!!) etc... I hated him to the core cos of one simple reason-He made me work,he made me think,he made me code!!!That was the worst attrocity I could imagine sumbody commiting on me.The other team members were all ready to bully me.All that I could do was call them by names,weird ones,names of wild animals that one sees only on Discovery, that suited their personality and complimented my thinking.I knew i was creative and i loved playing hide- n -seek with him,everywhere.It was an eternal game that we played,atleast i did,in the food courts,near the water coolers,at the coffee machines,everywhere.I shirked work and he wanted me to work.I hated his attitude cos I believed he couldnt bully me like this.Afterall I was an employee,a fresher who is justified for being a lil naive and ignorant of technical stuff.I knew he wasn't askin for sumthing very spectacular.He just wanted sum quality work done.I love my frends.They sympathized wt me every day . Some also added on their painful stories of how their bosses extracted work from them,to mitigate my agonies.Now I knew,many of us were victimized!!!One of them,the sweetest of the lot sed of my ml "yaar abhi abhi shaadi hui hai uski,lagta hai biwi baat nahi maanti ,isiliye frustrate ho gaya hai,u don worry,he will b onsite next month,u wold be free then",another one poked in"yaar apni company ke labour n HR laws itne powerful hai,no one can fire you,it's a govt office babes,u dont need to work n all"I felt 'blessed' to hear such 'logical conclusions' and thanked them for their deep 'understandin' and warmth of words.

The masala chaai at Mansukhs at 4 pm sharp was sumthing i could never give up,not even cos of the ML (module Leader,He was my ML)fear.and as usual I would never go alone.The best companion ofcourse was undoubtedly Tushar,be it the numerous quizzes,or countless debates,I would not trust him but I knew I could depend on him anytime for anything.As we sat on the lobby ,I cribbed,I cried and i complained.I cursed my ML,called him every single little abuse that Tushar had taught me,with their variations too..pored my heart out...poor me....went on and on.He listened to everything very patiently and just spoke a sentence,very casually-"Y is it that u have a prob with all ur MLs,don't u think there's sumthin that u got to do bout it,cribbing and blaming and cursing won't help u,either change urself,or change ur work,but ya,think ,think once where the problem actually lies...May be he isn't wrong at all ..."

That did the trick...I thought..and I am happy that I thought about it that day....:)