April fools !
as usual i forgot to update my blog...well that means, i have lots to say :). of particular interest is the April 1st fiasco, which will probably feature in the top 5 unluckiest days i have had till date. well true to what ashwini proclaimed in her blog, i was supposed to leave for Atlanta on April 2nd. I have been leaving for onsite since september, that is for those who know me :D. For many, they are not even sure where exactly i am, since i chat 24 hours round the clock :D. Well my manager asked me to pack my bags on march 31st to mark the beginning of an ordeal i'd rather forget. i had to shop for virtually everything, and had to do it in about 4 hours time!. I was ready for the April 1st gruelling day, when we'd have to go through a hundred official processes before embarking on our journey. i Had to confirm my tickets before 9:30am to actually be able to take the flight next day, and we were having second thoughts of whether the project would be scrapped in the last minute, owing to the numerous indications coming in from various quarters. much as i liked to stop myself from thinking that such a thing might possibly happen, i was praying that it wouldn't come true when i am half way through my journey( which my colleague promptly pointed out had happened earlier ) .
10:30 am : all procedures for travel were in full swing.
11:15 am : i entered the foreign travel briefing session, nailing my eyes on to the screen the instructor was displaying with utmost laziness :D
11:30 am : my colleague who was in the session with me gets a call, and he picks it up, amidst my muttering to him that it was not very professional of him to do the same. continuing in the same tone, giving no heed to my protests, he murmured into my ears 2 minutes later : "Get up, the trip is cancelled !"
11:33 am : we were out of the travel session briefing midway, and clueless and blank :(.
We cancelled our tickets by calling the travel desk, just hours after we had confirmed our travel. we had to fight with the travel desk, since the lady would not be convinced that we were not fooling her and that it was indeed a genuine case of pure misfortune. she would have none of it anyway, and asked us for a written communication !, courtesy April fools day. she wanted an email confirmation, for which i would need to login to my domain account.
I came back to my seat only to find that i had completely forgotten the password to my login account which i had changed only the previous day. The system would just not accept the damn password. After 3 tries, it locked my account :(....well on a rather normal day, it would have been easy to actually unlock my password, but not today !; for one i had forgotten my password, which meant that i would have to personally appear in front of the admin and prove my credentials to actually change it, and the damn place was accessible only to birds !...well i had to climb the damn stairs to reach the place, and started looking for the admin area. buildings in our office consists of a lobby sandwiched in between two huge workeareas, and there is this damn confusion of which is the left building and which is the right one. The admin had mentioned right, and god knows who's right or whose right ! i took the best right that was possible, and i was squarely wrong. waited for 20 minutes in the wrong building. Adding to the confusion, some members in the area insisted that a dingy looking room being the admin room; innocent morons !
frustrated i left that building to reach my place and called the person again only to find out that i had been to the wrong side of the building :(....ran to the bulding again and this time surely enough i found a person in the "admin area" and owing to him forgetting his glasses that day, he put to test my id and my face to a series of matching tests with close circuit cameras, and finally cleared me and my id as being authentic !..i changed my password and ran back to my seat, which was a mile away.
I was able to login, and no sooner did i login to my account than my phone rang. The lady at the other end introduced herself as swetha menon from the accounts department, and wanted me to meet her for some queries and stuff. well i thought one more to add to the day's ordeal, and told her that i would come to her office immediately, which by the way was a good 500 mts away from my seat. cursing myself i started towards bulding 3 from building 41. I had reached half my journey when i got a call from my other colleague in office bursting out laughing loudly and shouting "april fool".. Grrr.....
April 1st had never been so bad :(....but life goes on...
10:30 am : all procedures for travel were in full swing.
11:15 am : i entered the foreign travel briefing session, nailing my eyes on to the screen the instructor was displaying with utmost laziness :D
11:30 am : my colleague who was in the session with me gets a call, and he picks it up, amidst my muttering to him that it was not very professional of him to do the same. continuing in the same tone, giving no heed to my protests, he murmured into my ears 2 minutes later : "Get up, the trip is cancelled !"
11:33 am : we were out of the travel session briefing midway, and clueless and blank :(.
We cancelled our tickets by calling the travel desk, just hours after we had confirmed our travel. we had to fight with the travel desk, since the lady would not be convinced that we were not fooling her and that it was indeed a genuine case of pure misfortune. she would have none of it anyway, and asked us for a written communication !, courtesy April fools day. she wanted an email confirmation, for which i would need to login to my domain account.
I came back to my seat only to find that i had completely forgotten the password to my login account which i had changed only the previous day. The system would just not accept the damn password. After 3 tries, it locked my account :(....well on a rather normal day, it would have been easy to actually unlock my password, but not today !; for one i had forgotten my password, which meant that i would have to personally appear in front of the admin and prove my credentials to actually change it, and the damn place was accessible only to birds !...well i had to climb the damn stairs to reach the place, and started looking for the admin area. buildings in our office consists of a lobby sandwiched in between two huge workeareas, and there is this damn confusion of which is the left building and which is the right one. The admin had mentioned right, and god knows who's right or whose right ! i took the best right that was possible, and i was squarely wrong. waited for 20 minutes in the wrong building. Adding to the confusion, some members in the area insisted that a dingy looking room being the admin room; innocent morons !
frustrated i left that building to reach my place and called the person again only to find out that i had been to the wrong side of the building :(....ran to the bulding again and this time surely enough i found a person in the "admin area" and owing to him forgetting his glasses that day, he put to test my id and my face to a series of matching tests with close circuit cameras, and finally cleared me and my id as being authentic !..i changed my password and ran back to my seat, which was a mile away.
I was able to login, and no sooner did i login to my account than my phone rang. The lady at the other end introduced herself as swetha menon from the accounts department, and wanted me to meet her for some queries and stuff. well i thought one more to add to the day's ordeal, and told her that i would come to her office immediately, which by the way was a good 500 mts away from my seat. cursing myself i started towards bulding 3 from building 41. I had reached half my journey when i got a call from my other colleague in office bursting out laughing loudly and shouting "april fool".. Grrr.....
April 1st had never been so bad :(....but life goes on...
posted by Jagadish at 10:31 PM
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