Sedentary Livewires ...

Sitting in Resource Pool (in common parlance of IT company employees - "Bench") is a totally different experience than working in a Project. Here you will find all sorts of people; by that I mean both in terms of Technology and mentality. Rather I'll say it is a perfect place
for any psychologist to experiment his theories.

This is because those people are relesed from some projects due to either completion or postponement of projects. Sometimes they might be the victims of company's cost-cutting measures especially at this juncture of global economic recession.

If you happen to enter in the room where they have been forced to sit (because there you will find no AC facility, but only machines in the dilapidated state), you can feel a deja vu of visiting a mental asylum. A bunch of well-trained but helpless Professionals doing stupid things and thereby self-insulting their talent.

You will find some of them busy in going through e-books of their technology, some in orkutting, some in chatting and spreading the rumours they have just heard, and some in doing what they are best at - sleeping.

By throwing a simple glance on them(no need of careful observation of their behaviour even) it won't take much strain on mind to judge the time dimension of their coming into the Resource Pool. If you find a person in a very gloomy mood but having an alert ear for any kind of gossip related to either HR or Firing or requirement in any project, then get sure that he is released very recently. If a person is either sleeping in peace as if away from all the worries or browsing net and hunting for some coooool stuffs, then he/she is an old monkey in the business.

And all others are in between these two groups.

So enjoy your experiment on these gunea pigs....