Friday, April 27, 2007

A Night out at my office

Its been many times that i have spent the entire night at the office doing work, and i have been asked many times how on earth is it possible to work the entire night. My answer is simple. When your Boss is sitting on your head, its not that hard not to work the entire night. Heres an hourly peek into what happens as the night progresses:

6pm-7 : Boss comes in, Hey, i will need that thing complete by tomorrow morning.Me - Oh F*$K, gone my sleep. What all things are on my plate??? Oh shoot , these are things to do??

7-8: Shall do this, wont do that, this need not be done, that can be pushed for next release, that ought to go in.

(tic-toc,tic-toc,)

8-9:(People leaving for their homes) Oh shit, how many hours of work remaining??
2? 3?4?(chances of my work estimates being correct are as less as india winning the WC , futball WC i mean.)

9-10: Food,food,food, gotta have some. Oh Company's canteen's closed, maggi- life saver. phew.
10-11: click click click click, (Me thinkin---This lyf sucks man), damn, this thing aint working , what are my options? do i have any option?? clock races faster than Schumis ferrari.

11-12: Coffee time, glug glug glug glug aaah. sleeps gone for 15 mins, y aint this damn thing working, chuck the elegant options, workarounds? need to complete it tomorrow......man, how on earth is this going to happen.

12-1: (Posture change from sitting in chair to half sleeping with legs on desk) As murphys law says, if something can go wrong it definitely will and(my addition) The level of difficulty of any problem is inversely proportional to the amount of time left before a deadline.

1-2: break needed, orkut, rediff, gmail etc etc. gone 1 hr, need some refreshments, coffee coffee, more coffee.aha, alive for 15 more minutes.

2-3: comp screens getting hazy , ants walkin on my screen, wake up boy wake up, lets put some loud muzzic, speakers, where are the Damn speakers???? search search search, ......... aha here they are. Lets make a playlist( there go 15 mins) atlast, dhik chak dhik chak dhik chak.....$$$$$

3-4: lemme take a power nap of 15 min, which gets translated to 45 mins.(more scattered coffee mugs)

4-5: ooooh, morngs just round the corner. birds chirpin, thats bad news, work left? huge, lemme chop down some to do items......

5-6: morngs here,damn, am screwed big time. no chance , pack up time, mail writing time, asking boss for more time ..........

6-7: send mail, pack up, drive home, see pple going out for jogging, kids to school, while me retrning home. damn wut a lyf.

next day:

Boss: Hey, i will need that thing complete by tomorrow morning.Me - Oh F*$K, gone my sleep ...................................