Showing posts with label At Work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label At Work. Show all posts

Saturday, August 17, 2013

When I took 'Wake up and smell the coffee' too seriously

When I was leaving for work, it started to rain. It being a Saturday, the traffic was smooth and to appease me further it looked beautiful outside.

Spots on the drenched road shone like moonlight. We stopped at a signal and I saw a girl with a blue umbrella... The umbrella flew with the wind, handle broke and a part ripped a little. She tried hard to contain the last straw to help herself from getting soaked in rain. I looked at her and smiled while she tried hard ensuring her umbrella doesn't defy gravity.

We moved on, reached office. I wasn't happy about coming to work, not on saturday. and I guess happy is too a 'glint' word here with the organizational politics brewing at my workplace. I took a heavy sigh, spoke to few colleagues.

I am definitely not in a mood to work... Tepid coffee at work wasn't doing the needful. I wanted it to fill me with peace and wistfullness.

The politics here has started to grow and it is pricking like an icicle. I wanted that cup of coffee to thaw this stubborn, clump of jagged icicle inside me.
Oh! how I wish... And i work for a development sector!

Life is too short, I will pick my ironies whenever I see them.

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Much ado about nothing?

X: "The birth day greeting your department sends is good"

Me: "Appreciate you like it"
Trying to cut the conversation short for I had to rush to a meeting

X: "You know our team is very new"

Me: "Yea .. ofcourse I know"
Forcing a smile now.. And wondering where is he going with this.

X: "So I was wondering if the greeting could contain little bit on the person... their department details and their picture...."

Me: "Mmm Are you picturing a birth day greeting with employee's work details?"
Looking at him with angst for wasting my time for such an
injudicious suggestion

X: "Haha... No I thought it will aquaint my team with people who sits with us"

Me: "I see, so why don't you start with getting up from your desk and saying hello to neighbors"

X stares at me with contempt
I give him an exultant grin!

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