Desk Jockey, Day:2

Day: 2

Woke up with the alarm and broke my own personal record of hitting the snooze button just three times. Woke up jumped into ma shoes and headed to the Club for a Run, The instructor did a double take when he saw me walking in to the Gym at 0730 in the morning. Looking around i noticed that the average age of the Gym was 83, gave myself one more future excuse to use on myself on why i shouldn’t come for a run in the morning. Having done my ritual stumbling on the treadmill headed home to Boot up for another day of Vinay in Solar Land

This is What True Love Looks Like!

Boss/Dad then showed me to my cubicle. My nesting instincts immediately kicked in and i set about personalizing it. After spending 15 minutes adjusting the Chair, changing the location of the laptop 4 times and designating a spot for my Dwight Shroot Bobble head (which i don’t yet own and also which i checked online immediately to ensure it is available). I spent another 10 minutes wrestling furiously with my laptop charging cord, Phone charger and the mouse USB cord, who after spending half an hour together in my bag, fell in love and swore they would never be separated without putting up a struggle to the death. i finally settled down to get some work done.

 Boss/Dad gave me a couple of reports of how to set up a Solar Power plant. Reading through (studiously ignoring all the big words, it was too early in the day to Panic) i realized that these files were all project reports submitted by various EPC firms, (EPC – Engineering procurement and construction. Impressed yet? )

 So I figured you want to do something and don’t know how. All you got to do is send out mails asking for a presentation and quote from a few folks with the know how. Take the first quote, Google all the big words, and then Google up some brand new bigger words and compile a Cheat sheet, most important  divide the project cost by two. Then Call the second quote giver and pretend you already know how to do it but not able to do it on your own because you are needed to act in the new star wars movie and   are doing a favour to them by letting them do the project. Offer to pay them half of what the first quote said. They are sure to immediately claim that they would not have any money to feed their children if they did it at that cost. Then you pretend to be Mother Teresa and increase it by 25%, bring in a third group if you are the Ménage a Trios kind.So and so forth, OR you could just use the report to do it yourself. wow !! it just took 2 days to turn me into some kind of evil corporate vulture. Fortunately Dad/Boss has better ethics and principles than me and made sure i did all the Technical research by myself and i have absolutely no corporate decision making role ( Damn it!! so much for taking notes while watching Wall Street or Wolf of Wall Street).

Met Mr. P who will be my immediate boss, he is in charge of the Electrical side of the Plant. I managed to look intelligent yet again with a lot of nodding and pursing of lips and narrowing of the eyes.Got discussing a few drawings, slowly was beginning to decipher the nomenclature used. I was swimming in the uncharted waters of electrical drawings, schematics and schedules. Amidst all the Greek and Latin, shocked myself by actually coming up with a reasonable solution for a small problem, got so excited that I immediately forgot what I said. Mr. P then asked me make the changes as per the idea. I have NO idea what to do. The trouble was when I was talking, I wasn’t listening, and then I got busy celebrating my new found Smartness. Nope!!  Absolutely NO idea.