Madness

I am not too regular with my blog - Think its my laziness. I admire the discipline of people who can log on at regular intervals and manage to write. For me, its dependent on my mood - I blog when I am really happy or something really bugs me - This time its the latter

Any person who joins an organization is given an induction about how things work, list of do & donts, who does what - No one teaches list of common sensical things that is assumed to be present. As asssumption is the mother of all fuckups, so its not surprising to see the results - We also tend to assume that most people who work have some idea about an animal called e-mail. Human beings are social animals, so we like to be touch with our fellow species. Various forms of way to keep in touch would be face to face, mobiles, letters, ugly looking BSNL landlines, sign language, coded animal sounds etc . Oh wait, i forgot the main one - its called e-mail. The last one infact became so popular that some smart souls working in the Evil empire decide to classify mails into two completely separate watertight compartments - official mail ruled largely by Out**** & personal mail thankfully was left open to competition ( atleast no anti-trust movement there )



Life was simple by these standardizations till some no so smart souls decided to mix business with pleasure. Now dont get me wrong here, all of us make a lot of friends at workplace including myself. We go out together, have fun, a lot of people even find their soul mates. So yes, work is also a place where you make genuine good friends. But the no so smart souls were like lousy bartenders - They mixed business & pleasure in wrong proportions & worst subject those drinks to the wrong customers as well



To convert this into the e-mail story, outlook has a feature called reply all option - This was established as an option wherein employees needed to kept everyone in loop about the decisions who were marked on the mail. But the evil empire was smart enough to realize that people have slippery fingers who have no control over what they press in a keyboard. So they created a fool-proof option and created two buttons - The first one called reply ( only) and then reply all - It was positioned in such a way that we have to make a really special effort to ignore the reply button & jump to the reply all.

But you have to the persistence of human beings , the same one which made us climb Everest, build roads in moutains - Some of the not to smart souls used the same persistence combined with innane stupidity and have decided the world know about their opinions. It started with an invitation to half of Nokia's population about a lunch for Diwali - Harmless enough minus the option called reply all

This is an abrupt ending to my blog - I started writing this around a month back and then took a break thinking would complete it later - When i opened this link tday & thought of completing it, I realized i dont have the energy or the bandwidth to write anything on this - but what the heck, its my blog - I can do anything with it, thats what makes it a blog, right