Side Effects..

Some side-effects of working in offices these days. Shared by people who

have done it..

· During these 5 years in this s/w industry, I have hardly touched a pen. A

few days ago, when I had to write on a paper, to go to the next line, I

tended to press enter button.. Sometimes, when I do a mistake, I feel like

pressing Ctrl+Z

· I once went out to the market wearing my office ID card and did not

realize till my friend told me why I was wearing it !!!!

· A few days back I slept at 11:30 in the night and woke up in the morning

at 7:00 and suddenly thought that I haven't completed 9.15 hours and

laughed at myself when I realized it.

· Just after our training completion and subsequent postings, me and my

friends went out for dinner in one of the best restaurants.. And as I

finished, I started walking towards the basin with plates in my hand.. :)

· Once I was on call with my father and mom was not around. I went on to

ask, "why is she not attending the status call?"

· I don't login to orkut, yahoo, gmail, youtube, etc.. at my personal

internet connection at home... thinking it will be blocked any way. Till I

realize - I am at home.

· While writing personal mails also.........I just write it as if I am

writing to someone on-site or some senior person........ Just forget that

we are only mailing our friends..............

· And keeping hands in front of tap for waiting water to drop by itself is

very frequent with me...............I just forget that we have to turn the

tap on and off...........

· Once after talking to one of my friend, I ended the conversation

saying ..." Ok bye...in case of any issues will call u back" (Hilarious!)

· Sometimes when I delete a message from my mobile by mistake, I hope for a

second, maybe its in the recycle bin

· I was about to throw my hand-kerchief into the bin after drying my hand.

· Once I was flashing my ID card instead of unlocking the door with the

keys.

· I gave my office mail id and pwd to access Gmail and wondered when they

become invalid !!!!

· I was earlier working at the back office of an international Bank. We

used to 'dispatch' lot of Credit / Debit cards and statements for the

customers and track its delivery later. Once my grandma was admitted to a

hospital, my team mate once casually asked me " howz ur grandma doing now ?

still in the hospital ? " ... and I replied to her, "She is better now, she

will be dispatched from the hospital tomorrow !" ….This was followed by a

loud laugh in the entire bay !

· Once I went to a pharmacy and asked for a tab....pharmacist asked whether

I want 250mg r 500mg.....suddenly I replied as 256mb...lol....thank god he

didn't noticed that....

· Me getting a thought of doing an Alt+Tab while switching from a news

channel to the DVD while watching TV.

· And I - after a forty a hour marathon in Bhubaneshwar with Powerbuilder,

decided to take a break and went to a movie. In the middle of the movie,

when I wanted to check the time, I kept repeatedly glancing at the bottom

right corner of the silver screen!

· Few of my friends and myself decided to go out for dinner. The place

wasn't fixed yet. I said we shall decide it "run time"

· When I went to a movie theatre from office directly.. I showed the guy at

the entrance my ID card and walked in... he had to call me back asking for

the ticket...

· Once I went to have juice at the local juice vendor and innocuously asked

him whether he had a plain 'version' of lemonade.

· The other day I was hearing one guy talking of a "Stand-alone" house..

when he was actually intending to indicate an independent house... Poor

broker should have thought of a " A lone house standing in the middle of

nowhere... "

· I always press 0 before dialing any mobile number from land line which is

at home...Later when I hear its wrong number then I realize I am at

home.. :-)