clink..clink..clink

clink..clink..clink!!!

....I could hear some pounds jingling into my account ,which unfortunately had been struck by drought for quite sometime now.... the most interesting part about doing a job is that every time the month ends and a new month starts , you discover a certain euphoria! The thought that I was gonna earn again...made me happy and I ignored all the other intimidating aspects.
Then began the shopping spree , some formal wear shopping..shopping does make the world a very happy place to live in !

Still remember the first day at work....wouldn't go into the depths of describing....it was just okish...the first week went fine. Started to get to know colleagues bit better...had a few Indians among them. ..they  made the workplace jolly ..and very soon I discovered something that was common among all of us , the " He's so sick!" feeling...and that the feeling of disgust was common made it easy to bind better with my colleagues..we would keep on cracking nasty jokes about the subject in discussion.

However within a month. , trouble started. One morning my manager asked me to come to the conference room for an important discussion....I expected some kind of lecture on my style of work, or code of conduct. But it was much worse than that....I was asked to switch roles and fill in for another colleague going on vacation, from the support team.The matter was proposed to me in a very polite tone ...but it was not poised as a choice. What was even worse, I was not just to switch teams...but was supposed to juggle between the two teams , based on priority of the tasks assigned.

The organisation I was working for had small teams ..the numbers of heads in each team was so few that every single person's presence was required to run the day to day activity smoothly, any person going on vacation needed a temporary replacement. The head of the support team was going on a long vacation ....so I was shifted into the team. I started working in the support team , both the team heads would want me to finish what they asked me do... What difference did it make to me whether it was this task or that ...both were tasks for me. I was finding it difficult to meet the expectations. Thankfully this situation lasted just four days as the support team head went on vacation from the fifth day and then there was no clash of interests, I would do whatever was asked to be done. The months went past fast...support jobs are a pain...listen to all sort of cribbing clients from every corner and with wierd ascent..asking about various things in the vast application, was really challenging. I was happy when the head came back.

Next my team mate from the development team was going on vacation, so I was required back in the development team. Those two weeks without my colleague seemed like two months..as I received undivided attention from my manager...slowly the two weeks crept past.

My teammate was back..and now another person was going on vacation - the Manager ! I never felt better..the feeling was more relaxing than me going on vacation.There was a festive mood in our corner of the office..everyone in the team was beaming with joy ! We couldn't even wait for him to step out of the office space and started celebrating and cracking nasty jokes...while the other teams were amused at the way we were enjoying ..more like juveniles set free from remand homes.

Now that I was a bit relaxed , I started thinking more about things on my personal front...I had been so busy that I was missing everything else...I had not got a chance to spend a penny from my salary so far...I decided it was time to free some pounds from my account....