Gimme a ‘Break’

Twas 9 in the morning, and as usual I was far from awake, when I got a missed call from an unknown no, good enuff to do its job. “Who can call me up on a Monday morning”, I wondered as I woke up. Yeah! I’ve heard some of my friends get a missed call too; n tht usually happens when there’s a break, yeah, a build break.

“O maah gawd”, cried I, as I dreadfully hoped it wasn’t my break. So, I called back the no. and there I hear the “Yamraj” break the sorry news about 'my break' today. Its such a sick feeling to have in the morning, a Monday morning that too! I kept the phone down after I promised to be in office within half an hour.

“Lekin, the intermediate builds went through, n there weren’t any errors”, thought I (cuz I’d made my checkins on Friday evening, and checked the results then n there). So I again called the Manish (our build engineer, referred to as Yamraj before!) to tell him the same, and was kinda relieved to learn that even he was wondering why that happened, kinda signalling that it wasn’t really my fault afterall. “Huh!”, a deep sigh, as I hurried up n left for the office.

The day was pretty cool, as against wht I’d thot first thing after getting ‘The Phone Call’. But man! it really gave me the shivers - Mails from Ramesh (Director - Dev), some fire from my manager, some gyaan from the senior team members, with some of my batchmates trying to hopelessly console me, as I was mentally getting prepared for my worst day in Talisma. Fixed the damn thing aaram se towards evening. In fact spent the day fixing some P3/P4 bugs.