Dead ... Lines...!

Deadlines are dead. Real Dead. No sign of life. They never move.

Meet Mr. Y. He is a very nice and helpful person. He always wears that care-free (no that napkins); that so pleasing and comforting smile. A perfect Colgate smile. I can see Shilpa Shetty running for her money. He's always there in case you need him for any help.

Meet Mr. X, the subject of this post. An intern, not the likes of white House, but would definitely like to have one under him, in a well-known MNC.

So Mr. X is the Team Lead for Mr. Y.

One beautiful Monday morning Mr. X comes to office, yawns and looks around to see how many are still in that weekend not yet over mood; gulps down gallons of his first cup of coffee, one amongst the dozens he has in a day; switches on his comp, his pal for killing time until its time for dinner, dinner is served for free so Mr. X is in money saving mode; and then finally open up browsers to look for new posts on the blogs he frequently visits.

Knee Jerk Bloopers. No new post.
JstAThot. No new post.
WISISUG . No new post.
Some infinite loop in pensive state . No new post.

”Hey Mr. X” “Yes Mr. Y.” “I have work for you.” blah…blah…blah… That was all confidential:) Anyways that’s none of your business! ”I want a demo on Friday morning.”

”Yeah sure why not. We’ll have a demo on Friday.” Notice the team spirit!

Day One. Monday.
That’s a trivial, very mundane job. Mr. X can finish it much before the deadline. But being the prudent person he is, he starts reading the help files to enhance the almost perfect knowledge (sometimes we need to boast). Great, there’s a new post on one of the regular blogs he visit. Having satisfied his appetite for blogs he turns back to the job at hand. Nothing much to do. Improving perfection.

Day Two. Tuesday.
Merrily Mr. X walks into the strong room to the place which has all the equipment he needs to meet his deadline. Working all day long, sipping coffee after coffee; cigarettes burn as soon as one finishes; our workaholic Mr. X writes the application which controls that equipment. Didn’t I say our Mr. X was a genius fella.

Day Three. Wednesday
OMG! The device needs a device driver, which is not on the PC. No worry, ask the person who had worked on it. Simple. “Sorry Mr. X I don’t have it, but you can download it.” Sure he could and that’s what he did; 600MB of download at a snail’s pace. Took rest of the day for the download.
Mr. X goes to Mr. Y and says “Logistics problem. There’s no driver for it, it took me whole day to download it. The demo can be only on Monday”. Mr. Y is the boss; demo is on Friday. So, Mr. X stayed back this night installs the driver. ERROR. “This needs version x.2 of base driver, you have only x.1”. It’s already 7 pm. Mr. X curses everything he can think of. Another download, 700 MB of base driver version x.2. Installs everything to satisfaction. Now Mr. X needs to test whatever bullshit he has written.

Day Four. Thursday.
Great day. Mr. X will finish his job well before the dead line. Ready for final testing. Darn! Somebody took the Oscilloscope he was supposed to use. Mr. X frantically searches for a spare one. None is available. There one available only tomorrow. But tomorrow morning our Mr. X has to give a demo. Nothing can be done.
Mr. Y is informed but he is not willing to push the deadline.

“Deadlines are dead”

Tomorrow’s Friday.