I am surrounded by all kinds of interesting people at work.
There is a plant lady here. Her workstation has all kinds of potted plants. I am not sure it’s allowed even. Every morning, she comes in with a plastic mug full of water and goes on to water her plants with a look of great dedication. Sometimes, she puts little flowers in their pots and prays to them. She got really mad at me once because she came back after a week long leave and I hadn’t watered her plants as much as she considered fit. She held one dried leaf and shook her head with disappointment. She also muttered something under her breath. I pointed out to her that the dried leaf was there even before she left but she turned her back to me and called up one of her relatives and started speaking in hushed tones.
Adjacent to her sits a man who is very driven about real estate. He cuts out little articles and listings from the classifieds of the newspaper and puts them in a folder. He calls up real estate agents and speaks to them at length about how much sunlight comes through the back room of some home or whether some building complex has a gymnasium. He also constantly holds conversations about the rising real estate prices and the vertical expansion in Bombay. For a long time, I thought he’s looking to buy a house and felt a little sympathy that he has been hunting for a place for so long with no result. Turns out he has no interest in actually buying a house.
The person sitting opposite my desk likes to have an opinion on all matters. That by itself is absolutely fine. The problem is that he doesn’t really have an opinion. So he makes generic statements that could apply to any on going issue. Very often, he walks up to unsuspecting people and says things like, “Can you believe the mess? I have stopped expecting anything from these people now” which could apply to the government, the IPL games or the office admin staff. He also starts speaking of things he is well read on, whether or not the people around him are discussing it. So on several occasions, we would hear of the Occupy Wall Street matter in between our discussion on the Oscars or some such.
And this is just my side of the floor. Truth be told, maybe they think I am strange too. Oh, well.
There is a plant lady here. Her workstation has all kinds of potted plants. I am not sure it’s allowed even. Every morning, she comes in with a plastic mug full of water and goes on to water her plants with a look of great dedication. Sometimes, she puts little flowers in their pots and prays to them. She got really mad at me once because she came back after a week long leave and I hadn’t watered her plants as much as she considered fit. She held one dried leaf and shook her head with disappointment. She also muttered something under her breath. I pointed out to her that the dried leaf was there even before she left but she turned her back to me and called up one of her relatives and started speaking in hushed tones.
Adjacent to her sits a man who is very driven about real estate. He cuts out little articles and listings from the classifieds of the newspaper and puts them in a folder. He calls up real estate agents and speaks to them at length about how much sunlight comes through the back room of some home or whether some building complex has a gymnasium. He also constantly holds conversations about the rising real estate prices and the vertical expansion in Bombay. For a long time, I thought he’s looking to buy a house and felt a little sympathy that he has been hunting for a place for so long with no result. Turns out he has no interest in actually buying a house.
The person sitting opposite my desk likes to have an opinion on all matters. That by itself is absolutely fine. The problem is that he doesn’t really have an opinion. So he makes generic statements that could apply to any on going issue. Very often, he walks up to unsuspecting people and says things like, “Can you believe the mess? I have stopped expecting anything from these people now” which could apply to the government, the IPL games or the office admin staff. He also starts speaking of things he is well read on, whether or not the people around him are discussing it. So on several occasions, we would hear of the Occupy Wall Street matter in between our discussion on the Oscars or some such.
And this is just my side of the floor. Truth be told, maybe they think I am strange too. Oh, well.
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