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.
