Just another Day in the Office

My usual day starts at 04:50 am with my phone's alarm tone ringing in the background and that too an annoying one. Only purpose to keep such an alarm tone is to get up on time. There have been few incidents in the past where I had kept few melodious tunes as my alarm tone and the result was I ended up getting late for the office. It is not my mistake actually, whenever I keep melodious tunes as my alarm tone, I see a dream in which that tone is a background music and I feel it is part of the dream and I don’t get bothered by that alarm. This was the main reason I started keeping nasty tones for my alarm which wake me up exactly on time and sometimes before time. After finishing my school I thought I will never have to wake up at such odd timings. Waking up before 8 in the morning is pain in the ass. I think I am a night person; actually I have become a night person only after I completed my schooling. In the school I was a normal person, I did not use to stress my body by getting up early or sleeping late. Only when I went to college I realised it is fun sleeping late at night.

I wake up early morning at 04:50 after sleeping at around 12 o clock in the night doing all the useless surfing and downloading on the internet. I get only 15 minutes at max to get ready, and the only option I have to make it possible is by skipping bath (BUT I DO TAKE BATH IN THE EVENING!). My cab waits for me just 50 meters away from my rented flat. Ohh and I forgot to mention one thing, my cab driver calls me at around 04:00 am in the morning just to confirm my pick up point and to give me the good news of his arrival and in this manner he almost disturbs my sleep. The way he talks, it is almost impossible to understand his accent when my mind is in subconscious stage, as soon as I pick the call, the voice at the other end yells "Saar, Cab Driver saar..what is the pick up point Saar", I tell him the pick up point and negotiate with him for the pick up time, I literally beg for 5 extra minutes. I only get 30-40 minutes to sleep in the cab before my driver drops me in front of my office. Every step I walk with my eyes closed makes me angry and I don’t know whom to hold responsible for this. There are few good options however, like my cab driver, the guy who gave me this job or myself for doing this job.

I reach office at 05:50 am with no mood to mingle up with night shift people but I have to say Hi/Hello if they walk in front of me. I try to login to my computer as fast as possible and to check if everything is OK. If there is no issue going on, then I take a good sleep for approx 2 hours in installment (need to check my computer after every 30 mins to make sure things are OK) and in case there is some issue, I have to sacrifice my sleep for the same old/boring work. My Team leads are not so good to let me sleep at work. There is a team lead called Mala in my department, I sometimes call her Mala-D. Do not relate her with that old contraceptive pill, here D stands for Devil. She has the habit of annoying people by talking continuously and in a wannabe child manner. For your information, she is 33+ and still she feels that she looks like a 22 year old girl who just got graduated. Every time I see her coming near my desk, I pretend that I am super busy and start hitting my keyboard in an abnormal manner to make her feel I am working on a critical issue. Sometimes this helps me but if my luck is bad, she will come even if I pretend to be busy and will start a random conversation. I have also tried to avoid her by pretending to sleep, but in that case it is confirmed that she will come to me and will start shaking my chair till the time I say Good Morning to her. I am not sure if this gives her pleasure or she is a sadist by birth. The way I look in the morning with my eyes trying hard to remain open, anyone who is human will let me sleep for a while, but there are always some exceptions.

I do not eat breakfast and go for brunch at around 11:30 am to feel the fresh air and give some energy to my sleepy body parts. I do not have a fixed Brunch Menu, it depends entirely on my mood. Sometimes I eat Sandwiches/puffs/burgers along with the Fresh Juice and sometimes I settle down for South Indian dishes which mostly include Masala Dosa. This is my half day schedule; I work from 6 in the morning to 6 in the evening, 15 days a month. I am quite adjusted to this pattern now, it feels great to work for only 15 days a month but at the same time, it is not easy to work for 12 hours a day and If I include the time taken during travelling, then it comes out be 15 hours a day. I get only 9 hours for myself, which includes approx 5 hours of sleep. The remaining time at work goes by with the help of Social Networking websites like Facebook and Twitter and at 6 pm I get my freedom to spend the remaining time the way i want to spend.

Life is tough, it is not easy to earn money and I guess this is why I rub my ass in the office for 12 hours. Well, if things go well, then after some years I am planning to start my own business. I know that business will not be easy either, but at least it is better than rubbing your ass for someone else.

It is 09:30 in the morning now and I am at work. I did not sleep today, not because I had work, but to write this article. I am not a regular blogger, but I do write when I feel like, and today is one such day.

Have a Happy Weekend Guys!