So in this last month there have been more layoffs more restructure ... many people were sad that they got laid off (I have always wondered about this term - lay .. lay on ...lay off ... well never mind! but seriously why that and in the hotel line they call overnight guests from airline lay overs!!!) and then there were some that were looking forward to that severence package and didn't get laid off! So misery abounds.
Peter Pappu (u wonderin who that is? *sigh* Go and read the last post!) announced the changes in the weekly staff meet and pronounces this as the golden moment in the team's history! Lordy! That oaf is at (most?) times an imbecile with the power to detonate a H-bomb!! See I know him, his work, his pluses, his minuses, them all ... but will I ever use or manipulate them? NO! Why? Because I have no sense whatsoever!!!! Now siren has been bending over backwards to be maha nice and all with us all esp. MOI!!! In the time that has happened between the last post and now, we've seen MANY festivals, holidays, .... some personal score settling and display of sheer bitchiness.
So let the tale(s) unfold ....
*****A girl's best friend*****
So you though dog? No, you silly billy! That's a MAN's best friend, we are talking the fairer sex. So the correct answer is D*I*A*M*O*N*D*S!!!! We have a new kid on the office block called henceforth Willo, a sweet person, does her work quietly sitting on her vending-machine-facing-wk-stn. Happily polishing off chocolates and getting by ...Her hubby sponsors (poor guy! God alone knows what levels of emotional blackmail he must have had to undergo...) some fantabulous stuff for Willo - this includes a large swanky 18-(maybe more)-diamonds-studded-groovy ring. Now picture this - all she has to do is wait for the 10 O'clock brigade to arrive at work. Willo, Nashila, Blue, and Siren all are the 8 am babes. So we waltz in to the 6th floor, doing our obligatory bottle-filling, spreading cheery his-howdys-dirty-looks morning ritual. Willo just raises her hand to reset her glasses, and then light dawns - new diamonds on the floor!!! Wow - kahan se lia kab lia kitte ka lia .... aye ... idhar aao tumne ye dekha ... total excitement - geeky engineers raise their heads to take a look and when they realize what's going on. They have exasperated / indulgent / incredulous / repulsed / curious ... expression. I really REALLY REALLLLLYYYYY pity Pacafic for the place where he sits!!! But maybe he has learned how to block the feminine chatter out ;-) After we all are ooohing-aaaaahing-drooling-trying, someone (com'on you know whoooo) walks to Willo and talks crap until the right time to POUNCE oh her hand and shriek - ARREEEEEEE these look so nice?! Are they real?!!! Willo jaw drops, eyes widen, throat constricts, bile rises.... and she is aghast and answers no these are real. So this is the lady eshtyle! Willo narrates this to EmAr who dies laughing and she tells this to us ... since then we have this standard question/insult - fakin it AGAIN?!!! Blue returns from the states after NRI bro's shaadi. One day she wears her bhabhi's ROCK (I swear this would have have made any hollywood marriage veteran socialite types hang her head in shame ...) again the same saga of feminine delight and lo and behold the very same question from the very same person about ... the authenticity of the baubble!!
Next, with my post-Durga Pooja loot and a little smart jewellery exchange, I get really smart tops (earrings that aren't rings are called tops in the Indian jewelry industry) that had ..... gold.... and DIAMONDS :-) By now peer pressure is mounting at work - u cannot CANNOT not have new diamonds. The lone geeky lady engineer also has new baubles after all!!! Pu gets her act together and cashes a lot of her brownie points and gets .... :-) you know what? GOLD and diamonds :-)
Menfolk who think this is all women love - u are partially right. We love THIS and then some more. By now even EmEr digs old a fancy firang ring complete with colorless lil things ...
This is getting really stressful for ze lady! She announces to all and sundry that while we mere mortals are into gold and diamond chips, she in her wizened way is into SOLITAIRES and white gold! This from a lady who wears jhanak-jhanak-gold-bangles with everything! I can do a complete blog on her fashion sense rather the lack of it!!!!!
When the entire team is out for Diwali vacations, she waltzs over to my desk and asks me to check out her new stuff. I am gulping down bile and also controlling my expressions and check her from head to toe. Nothing amiss... she then pulls think 14 caret thin clingy chain that has a tiny "W" shaped thing with some twinkle - I am told DIAMONDS!!!! I am now really lost - if what we have are chips then these are DUST!
Then I ask - aren't these two small and tiny? Maybe ok for a preteen girl but they lost on you?
She: oh these my daughter's!
I: oooh! show me them -
She: They are bigger then this not as big as the ones you bot.
I: [smug] ok
She: urs look nicer cause of the shape of your earlobe!
I: [gasp and try to recall the shape of that part of my ear!] hain?
She: it is about the perfect alignment of the right lobe with the right earring!!!
She: what is this joke about asli and nakli diamonds?
I: [wondering is she is being snidey or naive! and still wondering about my EARLOBES] That's just a joke!
Since then the diamonds never came back to work - we snidely asked her about them ... but so far no news!!!
Maybe with her bonus she'll buy some and outshine us?!
*evil grin*
Rags
[suddenly realizes that her earlobes are so KEWL!!!]
PS - Next post coming up soon on the STC presentation ....
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