KOKKARAKKO GUMMANGO

Working in bench - Wow whts this title? looks like a oxymoron .... For non-IT folks , Bench is the term used to define the employee who is on payroll but not used in any project. (மொத்தத்துல தண்ட சம்பளம் ) , Lets look at the day in a life of a Bench person.. esp in companies where you have a hard target lets say to keep 9-10 hrs of time clocked its real fun to watch that person.

9 AM :  He gets in (why 9 , why not later? coz otherwise he cant get out before 6-6.30 thanks to his min working hours rule)

9 AM - 9.30 AM : Check email through proxy,open meebo.com or ebuddy.com to bypass the IT  Ops and open the yahoo,gtalk,msn and what not... just to say hi to the list of frnds. Then make sure the status is set as Busy or be right back at 9.30

9.30 AM - 10 AM : if with one colleague or 10.15 if with 2 colleagues  - canteen for breakfast and coffee (?) - nope .. coffee not now. that is with different set of people and comes later in schedule. (ரூம் போட்டு யோசிப்பானுங்களோ ?)

10.15- 11.00 : Other important aspects of the job like ICICI Direct,TOI articles,Mailing list etc.., Additional responsibilities include starting a volatile  topic like ''Is Aamir's way of putting rolling credit correct?'' , ''should Sachin retire'', ''Is sachin the greatest of all players?'' , '' which film industry is bad and which is worse Bolywood,kollywood or Tollywood?'' . - I am not exaggerating but I know 2 colleagues - good friends started such a conversation on the mailing list just for the heck of it and after 2-3 exchanges bashing each other the others pitched in and the count on same subject went as high as 400+ mails ) .. What an idea sirji .......

11.00-11.30 : Coffee break with near seat colleagues + hot topic like price rise, recession,+ some negativity spreading.

11.30 - 12.00 :Catch up with friends to whom you said Hi in morning and put status as Busy .. So they all think you were busy from 9 - 11.30  (கடின உழைப்பு ) .

Post lunch session --- will continue----மாமா   busyபா ஹி ஹி ஹி ...