M: WTF did you do?
T: What???
M: I am not able to receive messages in my mailbox.
T: Didn’t you read the mails during the last two weeks, we have migrated our mailserver so you’ll need to reconfigure your outlook.
M: Hell, so who’ll do it for me?
T: (Wait till USA elects its new president, will ask him to do it for you). Hey, its easy. Just read the instructions at this link I am sending you and follow them.
M: You people have no other job? Don’t you see how important I am to the society? They even pay me money to talk crap. Now what will I do? I’ll miss all those important mails.
(T: I know, all those mails saying “Forward this to 10 people or else…”)
M: It was so much better earlier.
T: It’ll be the same, just a few steps and you’ll be done.
M: What two steps. You think I have all the time in this world for all this crap? I have so many important things on my mind. And now I have to worry about this too. What if I…
T: Ya man, its truly sad.
M: What?
T: The shift and all. I think you are all fucked up. Probably, you could call one of em meetings and decide if, how and when to do the configuration. Maybe we will have to engage a consultant to get the changes to take effect. I feel sorry for you.
M: But…
T: Hey, listen. You have a lot of important things to do. Why waste time here. I myself have a couple of programs to write. Cya.
M: Hey, what did you say was the link…?
This is just a fictional account, inspired by reality, of a few conversations I had with my fellow Xlers when we shifted to Google Apps. The whole irony of the situation was that I was talking to people who say they have engineering degrees and over two years’ work experience in IT firms.
That night I prayed to god to save the souls of all my friends who had joined the famous Indian IT companies.
Well the real world aint that different really
What surprises me is that most of the managers I deal with were techies who for some reason now that they are managers, think its unholy to talk or understand tech.
I read somewhere about a manager who said, “what takes it so long to write programs, after all its just typing”. enough said.
I can imagine. If at university people are afraid to try then industry would be worse. What I am amazed at, though, is how the techies manage to take all the shit from the managers.