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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Laptop queries , Laptop worries.


My office laptop shows its true colors regularly, three times a day to be precise. Basically this laptop is a pessimistic moron. When I am doing something official, it works fine (moron) , when some person comes on chat, it gets irritable and slow, and when the conversation reaches its interesting best it simply hangs (pessimistic).

When it hangs, the next step is to reach to the system administration team, who are seated in a highly secure glass cage. The entrance to this cage is a sliding door, which when opened, makes a noise loud enough to wake other hibernating computers and even some colleagues. But the pessimistic moron is immune to any sound, you see. I carried the pessimistic moron to the glass cage countless times that, when I open the sliding door the creatures in the glass cage almost know it is me, without even turning around ! Well that’s quite an attribute of the sixth sense category, and it explains why they are seated in a glass cage…we never know!

The weirdest people I've ever come across are mostly from the workplace (or sometimes some relatives ;)).  Some weirdos have this obsession of escalating every trivial issue and send emails marking a copy to the leads, managers, directors and CEOs.  But I am a seasoned programmer you see. They think that  they can easily climb on my head and pull my hair. Others think that every issue can boil down to pin pointing a programmer. Little do they know, that by the number of years of experience in the resume we mean : experience to encounter the above species and strike the ball back to their court…or the satisfaction we get by allowing some people to climb on our heads and then swatting them away at a crucial moment !

People, why I am blabbering so much is that the creatures in the glass cage are analyzing my laptop and I have nothing else to work with…than to take out my notebook and write. The laptop evidently has some hardware issue, it’s a new one within the warranty period, and the logical thing to do is to send it back and get it replaced. But who are we to say. The creatures in the glass cage should decide, you see. They pretend to think it is some virus, which every layman around knows it is not. But the creatures in the glass cage know best, you see.

 But today I am going to gather some guts and say that I want to get my laptop replaced. If the creatures in the glass cage revolt, then I will use the deadliest weapon ever. Sentiments. (You thought I was going to escalate? lol  :D) No one screams at a girl almost in tears. Even the creatures in the glass cage. Shh..now they are in a meeting- which would mean that they won’t be at their desk – but most of them will be seen walking the corridors looking lost. As and when they appear lost, they won’t smile at you for the fear of being assigned with any work and will continue to act intellectual (just like I act sentimental). So when they are back, I will drop the bomb.

 Wish me luck !

13 comments:

  1. He he ... but u dint know where is the head phone jack of that laptop :)

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  3. sure thingy! all the best...

    had issues with system quite often, but didn't really get this idea :D

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  4. Thouroughly enjoyed your post. I have been in similar situations with the ppl in the glass cage countless times, before I finally got my system replaced.I can't even make the sentiments card because they are at a different office location.

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  5. Praful: It was not user friendly :(

    Moonlite: He he...for more ideas contact me at anitajeyan@gmail.com !


    Sunitha: Oh no...sentiments is the first card we use, you see. If it doesn't work then we know what comes next !:D

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  6. so how did it all work out ? you getting a new lappy ?

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  7. Dont know...the creatures needs time to decide..

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  8. And it all comes down to the oldest weapon recorded in the history of the world! :P

    PS: Didn't know I had missed quite a few posts here! Almost disconnected from the blogging world! :|

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  9. Seemes like the creatures are smarter..heehe :)

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  10. Praful: But mine doesnt work :(


    Blunt: hehehe... yeah and I missed your comment.


    Prasad: :-( Lets wait and see !

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  11. Nice one anita, I totally agree... Sometimes there is no logic to their actions!! Once due to some issues in my system I asked the IT team for a resolution and this was the response - "Sir, I dont know why this issue is happening! You try restarting the laptop 2-3 times, it will be perfectly fine!"

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  12. Yeah da even Ive got that from tech teams...!!!

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