Worst Day in Software engineer's life
It was a chilly, sleepy , boring Wednesday morning in Bangalore when I was starting to my office at around 9 am.
On the entire way , I kept blaming the heavy traffic of Bangalore. Finally I reached office after long journey of 45 minutes.
As a typical software engineer, first thing what I did was..... As you all(S.Es) know, I opened my mailbox. To my surprise there was not even a single mail. I opened my gmail inbox. It also showed "No New Mails". Then I went for a coffee hoping that when I am back , I will have few messages in my inbox. But no.
Suddenly I started feeling that I am so unimportant. Nobody remembers me, likes me, bothers about me...etc etc.... It was such a horrible feeling.
I was desperately waiting for a notification saying "1 new mail". But No new mail was coming and that was putting me into depression.
Once I thought, What is there to get depressed about? Oh my god! but I could not help myself from getting into depression.
I was not able to concentrate on work also. I started hoping that by 11am all friends will be in office and I will chat with them which can help me to get out of depression.
It was 11am but nobody turned up. I waited till 11.30 still nobody turned up. I felt like calling my friends and asking what's the matter.
But a wise "ME" told that no, keep patience. Suddenly a thought came to mind, Have they blocked me? Oh my God! but why? Am I so boring??
Do I bother people a lot???
All my colleagues were also pretending (my interpretation) that they are heavily engrossed in work. Don't they have 5 minutes to talk to me?
What was happening to me? Why all of a sudden, everybody has abandoned me , started ignoring me? I was feeling so useless !!!
I had already started questioning my existence on earth. etc etc...
All of a sudden, a mail came... I got so excited. But it me put me off when I read the subject line "Account request denied".
It was also an automated mail that to a account was denied. Couldn't they create my account, at least to make me feel little better??? So mean!!
I tried calling Shiva and as usual , he did not pick up the phone. What was happening to me??
Then I opened my messenger again. Few friends were online, but they had statuses like "Working" , "Busy", "In Meting" etc...
And these were people who hardly work. Actually I tried pinging them also but no luck.
Something made me to check up my own status on Yahoo. I was petrified, when it read "Dead".
I was so shocked to think when did I die? I was blank. It was as if I have lost my power of thinking.
I could not believe ...I WAS DEAD. My life was over. My role on earth was over.
I had gone into PAST TENSE. How could it be? I kept on wondering, How could it be and that to without even a notice.
How God can be so unfair????
And suddenly somebody started hitting me. It was my MOM saying, "get up fast! Getting late for office!"

5 Comments:
Wow! A true software engineers nightmare!! :D
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Wake Up Sharmila.. You've Got a Comment..
Hmm... my wife gets these kind of 'dreams' every 2nd night. And sometimes even while day dreaming. Seems like a girl thing to me.
Sorry not so interesting article...it sounds artificial.
Its so hard to have this feeling when suddenly we realize it :(, Hopefully it was just a dream and not for real :D
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