Its Friday afternoon and our team had one of those special meetings scheduled with the President of our company who had come down from the Overseas office. Its also one of those ocassions when the management suddenly feels how tremendously well your team has been doing and praises about how the company could not have progressed without your contribution. In other words it says " Though you bring tonnes of revenue to the firm all that we can do is to give you a pat on the back. If you ask or more, you get screwed." Each one of you introduce yourself and suddenly the choice of every word and every alphabet that you choose to introduce yourself becomes important. Key strategies are being discussed about improving the team's performance and everyone contributes to it to ink their presence. In a crucial moment like this when everyone is whitewashing themselves to catch the attention of the President of the firm, a cell phone goes ringing from a corner of the room. Everyone looks in the direction of the "desperado Theme music" and stern faces with raised eyebrows look at the person siting in the corner of the room. The person sitting in the corner of the room is highly confused and she looks behind hoping to spot the person whose cell phone is ringing. To add to her confusion, people sitting behind her have their eyes set right on her. By now, she realises the situation and frantically hunts for her cell phone inside her pocket whose ringtone she had changed just a day back. Well by now if you havent realised, the person was me and I could see my managers look which said- Point Noted, you get screwed anyways!

Posted by Sumi on Friday, July 07, 2006 at 6:50 AM | Permalink