Chapter-2: First Meeting

I was moving kinda slow at the back of the crowd, with all the depression in the world, as if I'm the Hercules carrying the world on my shoulders. I climbed the steps and opened the door to enter the cafeteria, that's it, I dunno why but the whole world seemed to stop and I'm the only one who could move, for a moment I thought I'm Peter from the show HEROES and I was excited to see if Hiro Nakamura will come from future to give me the message "SAVE THE CHEER LEADER, SAVE THE WORLD".

"WOW, I guess that was your wildest dream" I told myself and as the moment of fantasy faded, I looked around and saw a fairy moving. After looking at her I realized that its her cherubic charm that made the world to stop so that I can notice her clearly.

Trailing her with my eyes I saw her moving towards the oriental cuisine counter. "Ok, Lets have that today….. Its healthy…. ….. Oriental vegetarian, Please", I told the girl at the counter giving a sodexo coupon. I quickly collected the token and rushed towards the oriental counter. It's a live kitchen and it takes some time to deliver the order, so I was really hoping to talk to her and lucky me . I went near the counter, gave the token and stood next to her.

What to say? Where to start? I searched my memory for a line that can potentially give the best possible chance with her. To my distress I could n't find any, owing to my shortage of experience in such situations. "Better Late than Never", I motivated myself.

As I believe in "FIBI" (its not a NGO or a humanity organization, its First Impression is the Best Impression), I improvised many punch lines that can break the ice, but quickly disapproved all of them. Though my eyes stopped the world for me, actually it never did stop, otherwise I would not have written this, and you will not be reading this either. Anyway lets leave science here. All this while everyone continued their chores, so was the chef. Looking at him carry our order, I made a interrupt call to my punchLineGenerator(), and it unwind its stack before running validate(). I heard myself saying "You like Chinese, Huh?" with a tone right in between statement and question. I quickly bit my tongue for the stupid and obvious expression, but managed to hide it from her.

Laughing she said, "Hi Manoj, How are you".

This is called Creativity

XYZ Company

A fire alarm rang at 6 PM when almost all shift employees are in office (approx 5000). As usual entire office was evacuated within 3 mins & every employee gathered outside office.

10 mins passed..................................5 more mins passed.

 

Security Officer started Announcement: "Dear Employees - With melting heart I am making this announcement that for many of you it will be a last evacuation drill, as we are laying off almost 80% employees. While moving in who-so-ever ID card won't work are laid off & all their belongings will be couriered to them tomorrow. We followed this approach as we don't want to fill email box size with layoff email in thousands & also to avoid any fight inside office. Hope you have nice career ahead. Please move in & try your luck".

 

i-Limb

This is the i-LIMB in action -- newly installed on teenager Evan Reynolds -- is pretty impressive.

World’s Largest Automaker is Now Toyota Not GM

Who would have thought Toyota would be considered the world’s largest automaker? Probably never in your parents or grandparents lifetime would you think this could happen. Well, it is true! Just like the USA has an African American for President, the world’s largest automaker is now Toyota.

Over the past few years including last year, General Motors and Toyota were almost in a dead heat in being the worlds largest automaker. So what does that really mean to be the world’s largest automaker? Sales sales sales, that is what it really means. Toyota has managed to outsell GM. But of course, look at what just took place in the past few months with THE BAILOUT and GM just about to fall off of the face of the planet. No surprise here when all you read about is GM hurting, cutting jobs, hauling production and asking for billions of dollars to keep afloat.

Mind you, Toyota only has a few “make” divisions including Toyota, Lexus and Scion. GM has ahhh, Saturn, Chevy, Pontiac, Saab, Buick, GMC, Cadillac, and ahhh, I lost count. Granted Toyota is hurting along with all of the other auto companies, it still stands out as one that will survive and has a positive and stable outlook into the near future.

Let’s see what plays out in the next few months, you may be driving a new Toyota Malibu and I want one!

Source: http://www.automotiveaddicts.com

Chapter 1: One not so Fine Day

It was not one of those good days of downloading movies and playing games, neither it was a bad day on which I work. It was the worst; I have my time sheet completely filled the brim and spilling all over, with component development dead line, couple of must-fix bugs, and an over ambitious intern eagerly waiting (picture a vulture sitting on a tree branch and waiting for its prey to die and multiply it by a 100 times to get the effect) for me to give KTs and train him.

“Hi Manoj”

“Is the module completed?”

“Whats the Update on the Bugs” Questioned my manager in IM.

I thanked god for making him sick today, otherwise he would barge in to my cube every 30 min, asking for status.

“Everythings under control”

“We will meet deadline” I replied cursing the IM for disturbing me.

Owing to his sickness, my manager didn’t go in to details.

I am preparing myself back to action, and “Tadaa” a chat message popped up on my desktop. Its from one of my team mates, Arun and it has one single word “Lunch???”. I looked at the time shown in the bottom corner of my desktop. It is 12.31 PM. “Not again and definitely not today” I uttered in a disappointed tone.

“Why yaar! What happened?” asked Kamal without turning away his head from the screen his head is dipped into.

Out of frustration I said, “Seriously Man, I don’t know how he gets hungry always.”

Kamal added “I wanna know how this guy is keeping his stomach from complaining of overload. He had good amount of breakfast with me at 10 and …”.

“Is it??” Srinath, a newbie in team, exclaimed a little too loud, stopping us. “I thought he has n’t had his breakfast, I mean when I saw him in the breakout area at 11, having corn flakes and 2 cokes, is he always that hungry??”.

Kamal, smiled and said "You will get to know lot more things than that, buddy".

In a sarcastic tone I said, “I guess that must be just Snacks”, and mocked the quotes in the air, around the word Snacks. We laughed and suddenly became quiet watching Arun walk around the aisles to motivate the nonchalant colleagues.

“Come on Guys, Let’s go for Lunch. We better leave now, otherwise we could n’t get good place to sit, its already 12:35, Chalo Chalo”, came arun towards us. His face is a little pleading and his tone is lot more requesting.

We reluctantly left the seats, closing the laptop lid, a little too hard.

Feeling very contended for making his two renegades move their a**es, Arun went back to lead the legion, towards the cafeteria as fast as he can.