the cleaner guy.. phew!

today has been such a wierd day.. first i woke up late at 6.45am, realised i had a conference call at 7.30.. and another meeting at 8.15!!

so, rushed through to take a shower.. missed my meditation activities.. quickly made lunch.. and dialled in from the hotel itself.. then dropped off half way in the call so that i cud rush and catch up for the 8.15 cattle call!!! And only to realise on the way, that it was a tuesday and the meeting at 8.15 was actually scheduled for wednesday!!

i was like, damn!! where is my focus!!

came to offce.. and loads of mails.. lots of work yet again.. somehow managed to wind it up by 12..
when i realised, oh.. i havent called kinshuk today! spoke with him.. and that helped me relax for sometime.. :)
theen thought i shud have my lunch.. only to realise that i forgot to put salt in the pulao!! :(
i was in no mood to go to the cafeteria and get salt.. so just ate some with curd and pickle.. and had some juice and stuff!! needless to say, i was massive pissed off till now!!

then suddenly this 'gang of cleaners' landed in my office.. they wanted to clean my room and were not ready to listen to anything other than "ok, you may"!! :))
so i was supposed to get up and leave the room.. while they'll scramble up all my neatly scattered papers... hehe.. i got up.. and was about to leave.. when one of the senior looking cleaner stared at me with eyes popped out..
i was already mad as hell, to top that, an unexpected stare from a broom holder was the last thing i ever wanted!!

so i stopped and said- yes?
he looked at me.. and started shaking in an abnormal fashion.. i was really stunned, and thought may be i stepped on his foot by mistake or something.. or god knows if i resemble his age old enemy.. i was genuinely scared to see the look in his eyes.. thats when i saw him slowly move his index finger...
it was pointing towards my laptop kept on the table..
at this instant, i took a deep breath.. and went closer to him.. and asked him as politely as i could - "what are you trying to say?!? "
he strained his eyes, bent a little, turned his back towards me, and said -- "Take the laptop with you, and work in the lobby, while I clean up your office with my team. We dont want to be disrupting your business. These are IBM values."...

bang!!! boom!!! #%$^#*&)

I was zapped.

I quietly took my laptop, unplugged the charger, and walked out of the room.

Stood in the lobby outside the room.. and pretended to work.. I was shivering with this guy's loud voice still echoing in my ears!! I almost felt, that if he sees me not typing something for 180 seconds, he will probably run towards me with his vacuum cleaner to hit me!!
man, was I scared or what!

After some 30 minutes, he finished his work.. and went out, uttering something, which I thought was a 'thank you'...
strangely, he didnt go to any of the adjacent rooms with his 'so called team' and teach IBM values..

i was impressed with the way he cleaned.. not a thing was moved from its place.. but the whole place was spic-and-span! :)

such was the day.. with all its weirdness!! :)
i took a break to scribble it down for my own memory sake!! hehehahahaha! :))

going to chicago next week.. and will catch up with kaps, essie, jisha and madhav!! excited.com!
yay! life is good.. only if my dates to go back to india will somehow come soooon!!

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