Displacement

I suddenly heard that we may be shifting to a different office altogether, got alarmed at the prospect and asked my boss. His initial irritation showed that I had touched a sore spot. He elaborated on it later - his boss believes that everybody should be in the office by 9 and he thinks that having the office far from as many as possible will make it happen by way of office transport. My boss, who already travels 20 kilometers one way, is obviously irked at having to travel 10 more and expressed that my having to travel only 10 is nothing. But I think it's only proportionate; I never traveled more than 4 before in the last 10 years! Having a travel time of more than an hour is tough for me and I really don't know if it comes to that what I will do! Actually I have travelled everyday for an hour when I was alone but things are not the same now.

Yesterday our floor was looking pretty much like a marketplace if you purely go by the noise level. Two of our colleagues who got engaged were distributing sweets and the general cacophony of best wishes and sundry jokes had filled the air for sometime. Just when it died down, another kind started; quite a few people got displaced to lower floors thanks to some restructuring of weights on each floor and the shifting of people and machines and what nots made for a welcome distraction to many. It seems we have overloaded our floor and some people may have left feeling that they are moving to a safer haven!

The girls gang that I'm newly member of(for lunch mostly) has started sending me facebook requests and I'm going to find myself with quite a few connections. I'm quite an inactive member actually. I'm not interested in everybody's lives and very few really matter to me. And those few, I'm anyway in touch with!