A Good Day At Office Ended Badly

I was suspecting something like this, when I woke up late in the morning. Actually I did wake up on time, as I had alarm set on my cell phone. But my response time was lagged...I managed to drag my body outta bed at 8:05. I had only 15 minutes to get ready, and get down for catching the bus. Tragedy--when I buckled my shoe laces and, and got outta my home, it was 8:22 and the bus had already left. I called my school friend Rahad, who lives nearby, from my cell. That pesky guy erased my name from his cell phone contacts list. Hence I heard "Assalamu Alaikum...ke bolchen?", from him. I decided not to get into that bit, and asked him straightaway, did ya managed to avail the office bus? He said "No, I am standing in front of my home now." So two long time pals, and sleep-addict colleagues decided to get together and avail a CNG vehicle to reach office. After a lot of chit chat, and a tedious journey, we paid the 44 taka fare (about 0.75 cents, if you count it in dollar terms), and went our separate ways. I work in the Sales and Marketing division, while he works in Customer Relations Division.

I just managed to get hold of the new Bryan Adams album, "Room Service". The album is really nice. I specifically liked the following tracks:

1. East Side Story
2. She's a Little Too Good For Me
3. Room Service

Isn't it strange to have another album with a similar theme? It's "Hotel Paper" by Michelle Branch. That's a nice album, too. And I really like Michelle's voice. I read her bio, where she said that she's been a lifelong fan of The Beatles. During her childhood, she used to listen to the song "Eight Days A Week", repeatedly. However, she was really disappointed when she got to know that it's "ticket", not "chicken". She always thought that the song was like this "She's gotta chicken to ride", and that's the way she sang it. No wonder her parents would always laugh out loud, whenver she started singing "she's gotta chicken to ride...oh she's gotta chicken to ride..and she don't care"

Lol, this reminds me of a review of that album I read about in Amazon. Here was this user, who said " I don't know why she named this album as Hotel Paper. It's one of the worst albums I have ever heard. It should've been named Toilet Paper instead". A very gross joke, indeed. But I laughed my heart out reading that :-D

Oh yeah...I spend the whole day in office, working really hard. I did spend some time idle chatting with my colleagues, browsing some forums and checking mails, but most part of it was work. Before I left office, I mailed a draft presentation for a proposed promotional feature for one of our cell phone products. This promotion has no chance of getting launched within the next month or two, and nobody's taking it seriously, as it's implementation and outcome depends on a lot of "what ifs". To make it short, the whole project is a damned crazy idea, involving a lot of resources, and the end result won't be nothing significant, which even the dumbest member of the cross-functional product team managed to realize. But this brilliant boss of mine, is just too adamant to realize this crude reality. Her own pride and arrogance overshadowed the better interest of the company, and the people who are doing the job under her. She had the nerve to call me back to office, when it was 4:15, and I was miles away from office, sitting idly in the bus. I explained my current state, and also told her that I'll be reaching home within 5 minutes. But she said "Either you come, or send your co-worker". Yeah, me and a guy (who's a one year university senior to me) works in the prepaid product team. I called him, and found out that he's also nearby, availing a different mode of transportation, and heading towards home. He asked me to call that woman and explain the issue again. I decided to be a rebel and remained silent. Sigh....tomorrow I'll face the consequences, which won't be that pleasurable. Nobody survived in the corporate world, enraging one's own boss. But I wasn't born for bowing down to undue pressure. Let's hope for the best.

Luckily enough, my colleague called the boss and calmed her, in some way...so she agreed to see "get explained" tomorrow. So I'm a failure...I failed to con my boss. But I ain't regrettin' this time.

Another thing to note: today was my cute lil' cousin Anif's birthday. It's his 3rd birthday, and he had a blast with all the gifts and affections, and we had a blast with the well decorated, nice tasting black forest cake.

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I wish this thing had a view count, too.

Anyways, finishing this now.