Mrito Rekha: Dead Line

There was a time when I could boast that "I Never Miss A Deadline". Well, I wasn't working then, and deadlines to me were handing over assignments/reports or showing up on a meeting/adda session on time. The latter one is not necessarily a dead line, but I loved considering them as deadlines. Now I am being forced to change that definition.

Now I can only say that "I Never Miss A Fair Deadline". Some of the deadlines that I get from my office are simply unjust. You can't dig a canal in one day. Some things needs to be done cautiously, and being cautious is directly related with spending more time.

How do you feel, when

1. On Wednesday you come to know that you'll have to take print outs of a 65 page long document and you hear that you'll have to read it and do something about it
2. On Thursday you come to know that you'll have to come to office on Saturday (which was supposed to be a weekly holiday)
3.. Before coming to office on Saturday, you'll have to read the whole thing, and mark all the anomalies and think about possible corrections.
4. Now, it's 2:40 AM Saturday...I'll be off to office by 11 AM....and I have read only 10-15 pages :|

Life was never meant to be fair....and it never is.

Police near Old Dhaka aren't very gentle.