Tuesday, October 12, 2010

All in a Day's Work

location: my workstation
Time 10 a.m.

Hp: good morning ma'm
Me: Good morning. Why are u late?
HP: Ma'm my mom's not well. She is admitted in a hospital.
Me: oh really? What happened? How's she now?
Hp: She had a fall. She had an operation yesterday. her leg is bandaged. Now she will have to be in the hospital for a month or so.
Me: Is it? Then who is at the hospital?
Hp: I'll have to go. There is nobody else.
Me: That's fine. You can leave. Do you want some cash or anything?
Hp: No thanks. I guess I can manage.
Me: ok then. take care.

Location: Boss' cabin
Time: 10.30 a.m.

Me: Good morning sir
Boss: Good morning
Me: Sir did you know about Hp's Mom?
Boss: Yes I did. That was so unfortunate. What would be the effect of all this?
Me: He will have to remain in the hospital. I have already told him he can leave.
Boss: What I meant was how would this affect our projects?
Me: I can't ask him to work in this this kind of a situation.
Boss: May be he can take the laptop to the hospital and work from there.
Me: !!!!

9 comments:

  1. yes pd sambhavichatha..
    pazhaya companyil.

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  2. അവിടെ നിന്ന് പോന്നത് നന്നായി പഥെറ്റിക് ബോസ്സ്

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  3. ഇതില്‍ എന്താണ് ഇത്ര അത്ഭുതം.... എനിക്ക് ഇത് ഒരു സംഭവമേ അല്ല....

    ഇതല്ല ഇതിനപ്പുറം നടന്നിട്ടുണ്ട് എന്റെ ഓഫീസില്‍..

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  4. When that bloody boss dies, his son might sent a photograph to his mail inbox instead of his presence.

    Good one!!

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  5. He WAS pathetic..

    Somebody lost his laptop one day.
    He says, "A very unfortunate incident."

    Someone meets with an accident.
    He says,"That was so unfortunate."

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  6. Mathayi.. Things like this happen in all offices.
    For me that was the first time. This happened sometime back.

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  7. Hehe.. That's Corporate life :-P
    Beware when your company gifts you a laptop.

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  8. @Rineez
    Thats how EMPLOYERS are :P

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