And then down the line.....

It was one of those days, when you weren't sure whether you had no work; or there was so much that you dint know where to push start...I, the Engineer v2.5, with the new IT plug-in that totally terminates any older versions of Civil vN from the system, sat staring unblinkingly at another...And the required spark struck...

Oh no..Dont expect me to have run around my cubicle, mouthing Eureka! and any of the likes..Coz I did nothing then your mother would be proud of you for....It had been around eight long months in this source of trauma...(Umm..wait a minute...that was the count two months back though)..And I had totally lost count of time or space or any such event....

So my mission for the day was to evaluate my current position in the company....uhh..!! With the company being a real show stopper, delivering best-in-class-IT-solutions, with the latest Q4 result declaring a huge 36500 new employees added....Too far fledged..?? True...So I narrowed down to the building I worked in....

To start off with, there's AR..the Maal they call him...Been in my module from day 1 in the project, unlike me, the vagabond, who peeked in at every other one and settled for this in the end....He was the one I was to turn to in case of any of those queries, which If raised to another level would raise a crossed brow and get them thinking about my credentials in the same...So there's him...

Then there's one step higher...This the God of IT...thanks to the real One being very modest about his state...We shall henceforth call him just that...He has an opinion about every other thing in the world...ranging from the tamilians dying for 'their' superstar..to how stupid j.k.rowling was to sell her books to a movie man...to why saurav would make a great f1 driver...He had all of it...and they would be one of those arguments put in...where you gotta just shut up and listen, coz you're smart enough to not waste your energy fighting a scare crow....And call him similar to the Lord'O Games and your sure to run a long beating....

Up that level is the one they called the Leader of the team...Or should I include the back up to the leader first....A totally non committed leader, who ensures the sweet talking continues till you leave the room and walk down the stairs content with your fight, only to realise when at the basement, that you were tricked into getting a 2 on 5....Now..what can you say about those..Just quietly count them in...

Then, as I said is the leader...they come and they go...but forever thou shalt be run around by them...with nothing much that you can do...Bear while thou canst..!

Then there's the Offshore module lead..What if your module is a mere threesome down here...you still gotta go up and get a sign off for every other line of code you intend purifying....What if its the God again...! you got no where to run..no where to hide...for the reaches of God are far fetched for good...!

There has to be his onsite counterpart...All of them have it...So there's one more to the list...Easy talking one who makes sure he puts on one of those best tones of speech, even when setting your deadline of work to tomo EOD...they must have got special tranings for all that....

Up the hierarchy, there is the PM...It comes with the abbrev i guess....but this one goes off my head too...visits us once a blue moon...exactly when you think that you are someone in this company...makes sure you know your a piece of scum living off the generosity that the company wants to keep losers like you...And if you did nothing about your state of affairs in the next few dyas, doom's day could not be avoided... All this with a neat smile on his face by the way...

His boss is the manager of the account...Oh no..! he has nothing to do with giving you the salary or maintaining the ledgers...yet..thats his deisgnation....Is called for all birthday parties..its taken an honour to receive one of those laminated certificates from him...Is always remembered when authority is called in to threaten you into doing your work....

Hmmm...At the end of it all..there's the client....He is always right...He is the God of all Gods...at the end of the day, it is to keep him happy that you slog from 11 to 3...listen to all the nonsenses for which your collegemates would have seen their death bed for a mere thought of utterance...and still put on one of you cheap smiles and go back to work...

There you have it...Picture me at the grass roots and picture the drive I have to get out and Do it..!!