How is it going?? ;)

At my office as the internet went down, everyone started chit chatting while waiting for the network to be up and running… This was the only time I saw tech team really speaking and laughing, cracking jokes, speaking about topics off work, if otherwise there were just random jokes or noise once in a while… usually associated with work! I could see the genuine smile on few of my colleagues's faces :) similar to a child's smile when given a let off at school! 

Few them were waiting for the chance to go home calling it end of day's play…while I was witnessing all this, without knowing what to do, I just picked up the notepad and started writing this down, what else could I have done better than this, I had no pdfs nor any documents to read, had already called my parents thrice so I had nothing more left to speak… already had unintentional and un interesting sketches of  few houses and landscapes on the work book that was lying on my desk…

This was and is my first job outside India, first job in London! though its the same IT sector there is a huge difference in the work culture people follow here as compared to Indian work culture, one thing I'd say is that they are truly professionals when it comes to work… some are really strict about their work timings they come at 9 leave at 6 ish  in the evening and they stick to their contract, once asked a lady colleague of mine about this, she said, " Why do you wanna spend your personal time at office, office time is 8 hrs / day, if its over then you should be walking out" I was a little taken a back on hearing this, its 180 degrees to what we do in India or rather what we are asked to do…

And none speaks over the phone for non work purpose more than 2-3 mins and if they see people doing that, they give a stare :) this has happened to me many a times mostly when I call my parents, which I always feel that they are intending to say, "Will you please get back to work" :) :)

They eat their lunch at their desk, no one moves or goes out unless they have a friend or someone to meet or go out for the lunch, they have what not from fish to pork, beef to lamb, salads to bread, my God every damn thing! and there were times where I had almost fainted coz of somebody's stinky fish… I literally walked out of the room, returned after a while (exception:  my lunch(Vegan only)  is generally odourless)

Well one thing I really miss is the regular breaks which I am used to take when I am at work, play TT, relax and replenish my energy and get back to work, but in here its at a stretch of 8hrs, this sometimes is so boring and monotonous and I quickly get saturated but otherwise in terms of work and professionalism I really really appreciate these guys here!

I have learnt a lot from this organization so really looking forward for some more good and interesting stuff!!