When I became a cause…

I had a wish to be a cause for some change or some new things in my organization. I think like me everybody would like to be so. But I had never thought that the chance for that will come so soon and in such manner.

What happened last week, I was busy in some work in my office. Suddenly I realized from the hustle-bustle in the office, that it was the time to leave for home. But when I looked my watch it was 6:05 pm. I had to catch my office bus which starts at the dot of 6:10pm. So logging off my system quickly, I virtually ran from my 2nd floor office. I was in so much hurry that I had no time for giving a look at the lift, whether it was available at that time or not.

So I opted for the staircase to go down. After that I started my run again towards the main door. In that hurriedness, it did not come to my mind that the huge glass door of that new office was to be opened before coming out. So DHADAMMMM….I rammed into the glass-door. Before I understand anything, flow of blood came out of my nose as my face was badly hit with the door.

The guards on duty rushed to me for offering help. Even after all this, I was still worried for missing my bus because that would have cost me walk for one kilometer to the bus stop. So wiping the blood with my hanky and assuring the guards that I was ok, I again resumed my run for the bus.

Guess what happened when I reached at the garage. ….

No, it had not left, but had started to leave. So I ran into it and taking a seat, breathed a sigh of relief, as if the battle is won finally. After then my attention went to the hanky I was holding on my nose. It was completely blood-soaked then.

The next day when I came to my office by the same bus of course, I glanced at the main door on the ground floor before entering into the office. I found red-colored tapes were pasted in some geometrical pattern to make the people aware of its presence when it is open.
I had no doubt about the cause factor for this change in my office.

A Story on Engineers

Once upon a time three people were walking through the woods and suddenly they were standing in front of a huge, wild river. But they desperately had to get to the other side. But how, with such a raging torrent? The first guy knelt down and prayed to the Lord: “Lord, please give me the strength to cross this river!”
The Lord gave him long arms and strong legs. Now he could swim across the river. It took him about two hours and he almost drowned several times.
BUT… he was successful!

The second guy, who observed this, prayed to the Lord and said: “Lord, please give me the strength AND the necessary tools to cross this river!”
The Lord gave him a tub and he managed to cross the river despite the fact that the tub almost capsized a couple of times.
BUT… he was successful!

The third man who observed all this kneeled down and prayed: “Lord, please give me the strength, the means and the intelligence to cross this river!”
The Lord converted the man into an ENGINEER. He took a quick glance on the map, walked a few meters upstream and crossed the bridge.

Hate to Work ...

Nobody loves work, especially when the work is assigned to you by your Boss. But there are some people who are dying for some work to be assigned to them. Why I am this, because now I am going through the same experience.

In my company, the project I was working in is postponed recently from our client side. So my manager shifted me to another project. Coming here I found that the first phase development work has been finished and has been delivered. So the new team is waiting for the new business requirement document for going ahead with the second phase development work.

This means there is no work now except some stupid documentation work and some daily updating work. I was very happy while I came here after knowing this. So I started enjoying my time by sending mails to friends and browsing net, for which we have only a moderate restriction in the company.

Few days went by with a lot of enjoyment. But after a week, now I feel very bored in doing all these. I want to do some work now. The urge to do something is so high now that, I am checking my mails on hourly basis, whether there are any mails from onsite with some blessings of some work. Even before coming office, I am affected by the
No-work-blues.

I am not the only person having this feeling. There are many people in software companies at one time or other must have gone through this feeling. At least those who have been or are in resource-pool (Bench) will agree with me.