Busy Idle Busy Idle Busy Idle Busy
My 1.5 years of work in Wipro has been alternating between these 2 terms …. Idle and Busy.At every point of time , I have been distinctly been through one of these phase !
Either busy to the extent that 24 hours seem less and I move about like a zombie not knowing whats todays date , which day of the week it is …..
Or idle to the extent that I visit orkut , rediff and webmail every 5 mins , wait for some friend to call for a break …..browse thro the papers for a dozen times (by the end of the day all rediff links are 'red' and I can say who are the guys who visited orkut when and at what time)
The first time we really got busy was during our first one month in training. The hype which they give to the whole process plus your first-few-days-your-seriousnsincere syndrome makes things hyper. We worked 10 hours a day 6 days a week and add to that 1.5 hours up and down for transit …… I used to leave by 7 and return by 8-8.30 (depending on the guindy/ekkaduthangal traffic). No Hols (on paper atleast) …notes / sessions / tests ……. I was really wondering why they keep it so hectic , is it some kind of a strategy to get us used to hectic work schedules …
Then came the transfer to blr and the first phase of 'idle' work ;-) !!! Almost 1.5 months I was not In any team tho I was assigned to an account ……. No system too for 15-20 days !!! (like one of my managers termed this is your 'honeymoon period' - enjoy it !)
Then work came and I was fully involved till the modules were dropped ;-) (due to some architectual issues) ……. Then therafter I have been Idle Busy Idle Busy …and the last Busy is for the current phase and that’s the reason my posts are delayed !!!
I just cant stop myself from wondering why ever Work can be 'correct' - something which gets over in 9.5 hours exactly - not one min less and not one min more …
Well you can always explain saying it depends on you ….u can work just 9.5 hours if u want but practically its just not possible to relax at home when deadlines are above your head !!!
And whenever there is job , deadlines are unattainable …..
So coming to the end , which phase is better ? Its pretty difficult to say , every time I am in one phase I wish for the other phase …when I am idle I think its OK if I have lots of job but dying working is better than dying sitting idle ……… when I am busy I think - why the hell did I want work ? It was so much better the other way …. Other side of the grass is always green afterall'
Wats ur take ???
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It's default feeling for anyone in service industry. I never had 'Idle' state yet, but i had the feeling of getting bored to same kind of problems every day.
Read http://manikandakumar.blogspot.com/2007/03/slow-down-culture.html Interestingly it was forwarded to me by my PM. It was wonderful to read, how some of Europeans work in contrast to others.
I feel like I've done nothing all these days!
Wat is IT? What is Technology?
u seem to have echoed all tats goin on in my mind as well..though for me ..the lag b/w idle-busy is not more than a week or two :(
but i guess thats wat makes work interesting..isnt it ?? :)
yah da even i went thru the same state... but so far its been only busy till last 1 month... last one month its only idle... i ll take idle hands down ... u get paid the same dont u... and u can enzoy life too...
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