Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Am i an owl or what......

The most common misconception is of wrking late is that one is wrking for a Call Center or a BPO. When after a long and hectic :) day(or rather evening ) in front of the comp, sumtimes late nights when some client call is scheduled at ungodly time..... I send out my Good Morning Mails..... to all my friends and collegues..

Of course not to show that i am working late...but it is just that i like the idea of ppl cuming and reading my mail first...

Technically at 2 or 3 a.m it is right time to say 'Good Morning' but it is too dark outside to feel so though....

Most of my friends have now got an impression that i am after all working for some Call Center (though I am in a pure development proj) Handling calls at night.. Now that ... you see I am handling client calls at that time but time and again it is for some code pushing to production or sumthing like that.....

And I am not working for a call center....(though development teams seldom do wait late)

But then i do stay late hours.... i used to never late nights even to study for any exams or tests....
The only time i remember doing night out was to watch sum movie which was scheduled by our good old DD(national TV channel) at ungodly hour....

There was a time and project when i used to (still do) like working mornings... basically am an early morning person... think that most of the productive work happens in the mornings when one i fresh...

Now I guess focus is on just getting sum work done work late....
My team mates blasting music at one corner... Another team discussing the happenings in their project.... (sum are like me working late and sum are not like me and working for prod support 24*7)

Most of us have seen offices by morning.. but here too at night sumtimes ppl working under the artificial white lights give the impression that ppl are wrking in the late evening... it is only when u glance at the time that u realize that 'ohh it is after midnight' .....

'Early to bed early to rise, Makes a man healthy wealthy and wise'....

who knows whether framing this as
Late to bed, Late to rise, Makes a man unhealthy, maybe wealthy and sleepy

Makes more sense for all the night owls.....

Most of the working late is because of co-ordinating with the onsite and that could be anywhere on the face of the earth....

In the H.G.Wells book, Time is described as the fourth dimension...Hope this dimension does not add up and we wud be co-ordinating sumwhere with space too.....

But sumtimes it is fun to wrk late... it is kind of relaxing and offbeat......
Sumtimes it brings out the passion in getting the work done .....

Though i don't think it is enjoyable and healthy in the long term....

But till it lasts..... Lets njoii being a night owl......... :)

Cheerio,
The Night owl(only on weekdays)

3 comments:

Arun said...

Nice blog ..

Some times i used to reply back to the good morning mails sent out at 3.00 am ;)

Flexible working hours - the word sounds like an Oxymoron to me

Tina said...

@ Arun : Yea it does feel weird to reply back at those timings...

and i don't think it is an oxymoron.. late working hours sumtime do ensure that you have flexi timings... not always though.

Arun said...

@Tina: the catch is "Sumtime".. In my case Flexi work hours means flex your hours in personal life for comapany:)