The Concept of BenchPeople with no work or project allocated in a company. Routine work of employees in bench are:- - Come on Time
- Eat
- Check Mails
- Forward Mails
- Switch buildings
- Read all kind of magazines(u would ve never dreamt of reading those all these years as they sooooo boring)
- Take small naps
- Sip coffee, Tea and milk from the free vending machine
- Leave sharp at 5pm
Going strong in the 2nd week of Bench came a so called official Mail. "Am ur new PL and u r allocated to XXXX project. You are requested to meet me @ 11.30 am at Building No:X".
All benchmates congratulated me on getting a project alas after all the sleeping and roaming these days. Relieved of the news i thought "Happa alas i can do some justice to my pay". Walking through the maze of entry restricted doors and numbered cabins, somehow located my new PL's cabin and reported to him on time. Then it all started again. He asked me to wait until another PL arrives for duty(It was already 11.30 am and they wait for their official hours to start!! As if am poking them at 5 early in the morning). Then seeing me restless he asked one of his colleague(a ok looking gal) to brief me on their project. She is another commited employee that she asked me on what time will i leave office and said "Ill call u b4 that". Wow wow wow(--Pissing Response to get on the first day of allocation--)but though she was sweet in replying me(afterall something to be happy about). Hours passed as i browsed through each and every peice of documents available in my system(though of no worth or no relation to the project). God!! now am runing out of my resources. No more unrelated documents to read. Felt like am in no mans land as everyone around me were busy starring their monitors with a flurry of errors and warnings thrown out by a J2ee application they were coding. It was like we both seeing each other on changing seats. Me taking their seats for some work and they eager to have some free time which i was going through. Sucks!! Both would never happen. Alas again my PL showed up after a long time and said "Dude!! You ll be starting work from wednesday, Meanwhile go through watever documents you come across in ur system". A bubble raised above my head with the following text inside==> "Adhadhan ivlo nerama pathutu irundhen, adhuvum illama irundhurundha inneram oru murder nadandhirukum". The clock struck 4.00 and i turned aside to throw a gloomy look on the gal(who was supposed to give an intro on the project for me) so that to make my presence felt, but damn she was sleeping now. Scratching my head on how to pass the next 60 minutes i started typing this paras. Thoughts went by "There were days when i longed to do nothing and take rest. But time delay had it delivered late to god that he made those wishes granted now when i really pray for something constructive to happen". Man proposes and god disposes. So to the conclusion: - Too much of anything is not always tolerable.
- Being idle is not always the best method to be happy.
- There are times you cant do anything out of the situation.
But to seal up all woes ill be starting work from wednesday........Somehow passed a week in bench. Mine is not even a speck compared to my seniors who were in bench for months together, but i write this as my part of contribution to the world on the concept of Bench. *********************Disclaimer*********************** No part of this post is intended to tarnish any companies image or reputation in any ways. If so, It is pure coincidence and not the intention of the author.
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