I am doing NOTHING

Prof B. C. Ray entered the class in a different mood. No notebooks in his hand to dictate the lectures from. And suddenly bursted upon a girl sitting on the front row, "Why did you choose Software Job"?

This happened in LH (it was Lecture Hall and not Ladies Hostel; clarified as I found you too much interested in the story now!) three days after the commencement of campus-selection season. 30 metallurgists out of a strength of 40 were already selected by various software companies, wait, i mean IT companies (Software is still a respectable word).

He asked, pledged, "Tell me honestly, why you chose IT jobs?" "You All."

Silence- as if we had committed the biggest crime ever.


"Don't fear, of course, we are no-more enemies. You now need the B.Tech degree(only) and I will help you get it. Still for the sake of goodness tell me the reason you didn't opt for core metallurgy career.

"Was it money?"
"Nnnnnnooooo"

"Respect?"
"Un nno"

"Corruption/Politics in the core sector(he meant public sector)?"
"YES" Little did we know of the hopeless politics in the IT industry.

He started his speech (I respect) for the next 1.5 hours. (Actually the class was for 1 hour but it had started raining heavily and we had no way going back to hostel for the lunch.)

"You know..", spoke he, "I constantly get emails from your seniors repenting for joining the IT industry."
"And the worst thing they mention about it is when you are supposed to be on your seat for the whole day and told to do absolutely NOTHING."

"I am not telling your decision is wrong. But..."

The rest of the discussion was too heart touching to be mentioned here for the averagely built hearts of IT professionals reading this article.


Today, I am sitting near my boss, with 3 (three) sub-bosses around. I am supposed to take KT(don't worry, if you don't know. This article is not for you) over phone from some guy in the US and start my work. That guy is not there and I am doing NOTHING.
I tried some time to start my dhandaa on the internet (the sole reason why I joined the IT industry and this option was not there in Prof. Ray's multiple choice Qn.) But alas, whatever site I opened said, "YOU ARE TRYING TO ACCESS UNAUTHORIZED WEBSITE". Of course 90% of all websites I OPEN IN OFFICE would say the same if I tried to access them without employing some special stealth techniques. (But, again, don't assume too far; you are again mistaken regarding the kind of sites I am talking of.)

How long can you stare at the hopeless (this is one of my favorite words and will be frequented on this blog) emails on OUTLOOK. Had it been the raddiff or cabbage mails we could have enjoyed the ADs alongside, up and below. And 90% of the site links on my browser FAVORITES are the sites I hate the most. For many others it is 100% as they do not dare to access and add-to-favorite the "UNAUTHORIZED" pages.

In last 72 hours (since I joined this team) I have drank 3.5 litres of tea(as labeled on the vending machine), played Jardinains(download now!) on a un-noticed corner-workstation and read(you can say STUDIED) in the library 35000 lines from magazines I never liked.


Just asked a junior(at college) of mine for Prof. Ray's email ID.