Life in an IT company becomes monotonous. The bigger the company, the more monotonous it will be. Having worked at Microsoft, HCL and now ABB, I guess I am justified in saying so. At Microsoft, everything was ready the day I joined as an intern. I had my cubicle setup with LandLine, IP Phone and Desktop. Even a pair of brand new headphones were kept beside the keyboard and the cubicle was tagged with the name "Jayanth Gurijala".
HCL, smaller than Microsoft and was also less efficient. It took a week for my Desktop to be ready, four of us shared a LandLine and I had to get my personal headphones to keep myself awake.
ABB, India, smaller than HCL, is a total mess! Life is least monotonous here. Employees share PCs, carry heavy CPU's around and assemble them, pull ethernet cables to connect to net, borrow hubs and switches and fight for keyboard and mice. Even after two weeks here, I am still a nomad. I roam around carrying a mouse searching for a place to sit. And what more, if I lift my head i can see three doors. The leftmost is the Men's toilet, rightmost is the women's toilet and the middle one is for the handicapped. Except for the middle door, the other two are always in action. I cannot even try to sleep because the doors keep banging open-close-open-close bah!
So having nothing to do than keeping a tab on who uses the restroom the most number of times in an hour, I started googling. "Exotic Engineer Entrepreneur", I typed and for the first time went on till the 14th page! AAnnd....
HCL, smaller than Microsoft and was also less efficient. It took a week for my Desktop to be ready, four of us shared a LandLine and I had to get my personal headphones to keep myself awake.
ABB, India, smaller than HCL, is a total mess! Life is least monotonous here. Employees share PCs, carry heavy CPU's around and assemble them, pull ethernet cables to connect to net, borrow hubs and switches and fight for keyboard and mice. Even after two weeks here, I am still a nomad. I roam around carrying a mouse searching for a place to sit. And what more, if I lift my head i can see three doors. The leftmost is the Men's toilet, rightmost is the women's toilet and the middle one is for the handicapped. Except for the middle door, the other two are always in action. I cannot even try to sleep because the doors keep banging open-close-open-close bah!
So having nothing to do than keeping a tab on who uses the restroom the most number of times in an hour, I started googling. "Exotic Engineer Entrepreneur", I typed and for the first time went on till the 14th page! AAnnd....
lol... Three doors...
ReplyDeleteDarn... did i come across this term in any song anywhere..? I just cant recollect it!
maybe it was the three blind mice.... :P
ReplyDelete@raghu - its a band.. 3 doors down!! :)
ReplyDelete@gj - i think u can create an excel/report of how many times each person is using the toilet and for how long!! i m sure this report will help ur company in better resource management and provide better opportunities for sustainable growth :P :P
@ Samsung Noida it tool only 82 days for me to get my ID Card..... LoL... :P
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