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Office and Politics

Life feels great after a week of slogging and with the beautiful fact of two days of sheer luxurious non-activity …. Wow…sitting with my laptop at 12:45 in the night with sweet music floating around me…hmmm… the last thing I want to think about is office and the problems it symbolizes…. But I am inadvertently pulled into thinking about it... Office and Politics…I have never seen or encountered so much of the latter before in the former… Not that I have lived and seen so much… But it is so unnatural it hurts to see that people almost the same age as you revel in it…Office is the place of productivity where you are creating something, righting some wrong done, bringing order to chaos … It is the place where you can create wonders if given a chance... I maybe glossing over it too much…maybe am giving it a romantic angle where none exists… Even if it is not all the above it is the place which gives you your daily bread and provides you that good place in the society. Where t...

“Know-it-all” syndrome

This the first blog that I am writing using my new laptop… feels great.. an expression of the financial independence that I am enjoying .. But it isn’t that easy to type in this as in a normal desktop.. a curious thing is going on happening .. for the three lines that I have typed I have not been able to get one single line at one go.. the cursor is playing hide and seek with me and I keep going to the first line.. Hmmm.. yeah will get used to it… before somebody asks let me tell you that it is a HP Compaq Presario V2381 …the Widescreen one… yeah influenced by the TV ad where the girl introduces “the future son in law” to her parents… :-) Took the lappie to the office last Sunday & this weekend again….and got to notice first hand the “Know-it-all syndrome” of guys … no offence meant for the guys out there… But this is how some of the conversations went…. Guy1: Hey you got a new laptop..? Me: Yeah …(enthusiastically….happy that somebody noticed J) Guy1: Wh...