Life @ Work, with colleagues.

I wonder if the words "Problem","Leaves" and "Out of town" have become erstwhile as they are being replaced by the more suave and uber cool words like "Issues","Weekly offs" and "Out of Office" respectively.Aside these words being "professional" at this place,there are many other changes in me like -the ability to pretend busy even while being jobless,become a lot cruder than I was at college,lose social contact thanks to shifts etc. So what is place..and what makes it so god damn compelling to go irrespective of my inclination towards it..Its my "Work Place"...!!
True to the title of this blog,I would love to talk about the positives of my workplace or the lack of it.
Coming to think of it, my workplace is pretty cool..I mean..where else would you have a pantry where water is thicker than the milk used, sugar is in the form of small mounds, noodles in the cafeteria take half an hour to cook and chicks in your college seem much better than the ones here so on and so forth. Going ahead of all this, I still love my workplace and work thanks to the time I get to spend on the net* and the free coffee I get to drink..!!
Apart from all these things, there are these colleagues of mine who aggravate the things more so..something like watching vijay movies while feeling sick. Now that I got the comparison right,let me elaborate more on my colleagues.You see, there are about 3 levels in my domain, the Level 1/L1 support team, Software Services/SS team and the INFRA team in the same order of increasing workload and skills required.
The characteristics of each team is what makes them irritating and funny.Some of them are-
1.Level 1 support:
This is where most of the people start off with.These are the guys who do all the ground work and all the work which requires no skills whatsoever except the ability to remember certain facts.If the work done daily is kept on a conveyor belt, it would be a circular one for sure as the work here is so repetitive.All days are Mondays and you would not be able to tell the difference between days.With all due respect to the guys here,nothing here except the mails which SS team sends to point fingers at your mistakes and CC'ing it to the half of the milky way while doing so.
2.SS team:
They are the most intriguing of them all whose primary work involves sending mails to the L1 guys to show what they have done is wrong and make sure that all of them notice it.Apart from all this their other work is to seem busy always so much to the point of being irritating and obnoxious. They are also known for their etiquette in LCS (yes..the messenger that is used in workplaces),so much that anything you ask will change their status to "away" automatically and after asking them a question you can as well go to a trip around the solar system twice,walk your way around earth,come back just to see that they have not replied.I really don't understand what keeps them so busy all along that they can actually overlook someone asking you something important.Hope they are really busy as they claim themselves to be.Now..don't get either of us wrong,all this is my opinion and probably the ones whom I got in touch with are so.I don't want to generalize but then..can't help it.
3.Infra team:
These are the people whom I have only heard of but never actually seen.I think they actually work in top secret locations and undisclosed locations coz trust me..I haven't seen one guy from infra team or probably I am in the wrong floor.Whatever.
They do most of the work right from resolving big problems to the talks with clients who don't understand each others English..!!.I guess they are the less understood,seldom seen characters.Will wait for more updates on them.
I guess that about wraps up this post.Stay tuned for next post..:P.;).
*-Now its been removed and we can browse nothing but google and wikipedia.:(
p.s:
And for those who are wondering in which level I am in- I have worked both in L1 and SS team, leveraged at the moment..!!