Wat I've done !!!

Rintu is fed up with his job. 'Its not worth taking pain anymore , rather its time to get out of this limbo' - Rintu is waiting for 'the kick'. He has been trying to switch , where he will have a better job , higher salary , less work and hopefully a cool boss. Till date Rintu applied for dozens of interviews and most of them never even cared to send him an acknowledgement , let alone interview calls. So Rintu was over excited when he got the face to face round invitation. Just before the interview boss called him - 'Boss calling' sparked a wicked smile on his face , as if 'watching you calling for one last time!!!'. Rintu made the clishe 'bahana' once again - 'not feeling well' and said he would get the work done by Monday. And then laughed for half an hour imagining how his boss would piss off when he would submit his resignation or throw it at his face on Monday. 'Sometimes whole life people wait for one Special day and one day - its the next Monday' - Rintu said when I called him.

Little did I know that for me one 'special day' had already being arrived. I didn't wait my whole life but for quite a long time I had been waiting , for the client feedback for 008B study that was completed months back. Since the day I realised the big blunder I made , I kept my fingers crossed.

'So mercy cooome...
And Waaash awayyy...
Whaaat I have dooone!!!' - I used to pray.
Dooms day came once again as luck played another prank on me , nothing escaped from their x-ray eyes. So I was called upon. Soon two reviewers joined in - and then first time I looked at the bug. 'Being queried' was getting displayed in the reports where it should have been some 'SOC' name instead - like 'head' , 'nose' or 'tail'. I felt a strong sense of 'deja-vu' as if I had gone through the scene earlier , infact every time when feedback comes we repeat the same scene and sequence of events. Now I got immuned to this panic attack, to its 'unspoken hostility radiation' as well. Though I knew the bug reason I didn't share it with others. Rather I was amused watching people scratching head to find the 'causal'. Somebody executed few utility codes, The 'Star Of The Month' girl joined in. Followed by a boy who recently got a 'Pat On The Back'. At one point of time total eight to ten people were glued to the screen , completely absorved into those boring reports as if 'Inception two' got released and Leonardo into the screen , this time hipnotizing the audience into his dream world. I wished a twilight vampire would jump off the screen and scream at them 'BOOOOO', or the 'Inception highway train' would come crashing through the screen and zoom past the crowd. More utilities, more experts joined in, poor system couldn't survive so much of attention , it got hanged.

I wondered if after 'pat on the back' management would launch another 'special appreciation' on this 'special day' - 'kick on the ass'. I wondered whom they would ask to do 'the kick' , sorted out different combinations and was fascinated at the thought that our ex -security manager with her red-yellow-green socks and fancy high heel shoes doing the honour. My reverie cut short as Project Manager (PM) joined in. ' Jake , I don't expect this kind of small mistakes from a resource of your experience' as if he would be happy if there were few more awkward terms , like 'being resolved' , 'being queried again', 'being resolver after' - along with the 'small' 'being queried' term. My boss was standing nearby , looked like someone waiting to be sacrificed, listened to my PM's instructions with bowed head. Next a 'shok sabha' (team meeting) was called in to mourn the '008B Shaheed divas'. As per the mandate from PMO (Project Manager Office), all the delivered studies were to be called back to do a recheck.

After the horrible day I consoled myself with the thought that Rintu must had pulled through the interview and something good must had been waiting for me at the end of the day. So I called Rintu to get the update. Asked - how was the interview and where was the party. But Rintu was badly screwed - messed up all mechanical fundas and there was no way that they would call him again. The long yearned 'kick' didn't come and Rintu was kicked out. Nope...altogether a 'Black Friday'. But quite an eventful day with lots of bizarre thoughts - the 'novelty factor' was awesome and I loved it.