Monday, March 31, 2008

Client-Visit

After the lazy weekend, Monday is a real disaster for a guy like me. Getting up early in the morning and preparing for the Office is really a boring stuff, especially after two days break from regular work schedule.
The real disaster came when I reached in office. I found all have reached early; only I was late. It was a real surprise for me, not because I always come earlier than others, but because there are some guys who are even more late-comers than I.

I was very surprised to find this unusual thing. But feeling ashamed of my fault (about which I had still no clue), I hurried up to my seat and jumped into my work (not any important, just checking mails for any updates from onsite) pretending as if really serious about work. This is because my project manager, who looks always busy in his work, but keeps a hawk’s eye on every employees in the team, sits only few meters away from me.

After an hour, when my dull mind started working properly, only then I remembered that I had received a mail on last Friday about our client (our GOD, do not read in reverse) visit. Hence we were told to come half an hour early and maintain the decorum.

Now only I realized what my fault was. I thanked GOD (I don’t mean our client) for He made me remember the things at proper time, I mean before any attack from my boss. Now I can think of any sad looking, but believable excuse utilizing the time in my hand to defend me.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Bathroom and Human Behaviour

I have spent nearly ten years of my life, staying in hostel as I had to leave my home after my matriculation. In those days I have observed one thing, which I think is an interesting fact about human behaviour.

In Hostels Bathroom Bottleneck is a common problem, where each and every room does not have an attached bathroom. One have to wait for taking a bathe as there is a wide gap between the number of members and the number of bathrooms. So in this type of situations, while waiting for my turn for bathroom entry, I have got ample oppertunity to do some research work on the role of our great(because of there scarcity) bathrooms in showing the behaviour of a person.

I observed while waiting, some persons are spending more time than others. After observing people for this, I started to think the reason for this. As I was taking less amount of time than some of those annoying mortals, this was giving me an etch to find the reason for their love towards a place not very nice place to spend. Then I made a list of those persons in my mind and tried to find the answer by analyzing their behaviour.
Then I found that those, who are taking much time are mostly the kind of persons, not very open in their behaviour. They are somewhat reclusive in nature and while the matter of communication comes they are very reticent. Exactly the opposite was found in case of the other group of persons.
So the conclusion I reached is that : "The persons who are Extroverts by nature, they tend to spend less time in bathroom than their Introvert counterparts."
After analyzing this for some more time, I got some answer which I think is logical to some extent.
As Introverts avoid public attention and prefer solitude, what can be a better solitary environment than a Bathroom. The chance is more increased if a person is not staying alone in his room. As he needs some time alone for him, the next best place he finds is Bathroom and that is why he spends more time there.
Even some of those people give a vent to their suppressed emotion there by either crying, shouting or by making strange gestures or by speaking vulgar words. I have heard some sobbing sounds and sometimes some expletive words from the doors of bathrooms. Even some people have found talking with themselves there. It is not any psychological disorder, but a way to destress the mind.
But Extroverts feel suffocated when they are alone. They always want somebody's company or attention. So they try to avoid all places of solitude, be it Bathroom or any such places.
So friends, if you want to judge a person's behaviour, you can do it by watching his toilet behaviour.

Thank You.
DreamerBoy